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In advance of Memorial Day, bill introduced to expand education benefits to spouses of fallen heroes
WASHINGTON, DC -- In honor of Memorial Day, U.S. Senators Dean Heller (R-NV) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) this week introduced the Spouses of Heroes Education Act, which would expand full educational benefits to spouses of service members who die in the line of duty. “As we honor the memory ...
High-tech cell phone spying
Since the FBI was founded over 100 years ago in 1908, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has always used the highest forms of technology to track down prospective criminals. One of the latest devices employed by the FBI is a secretive cell phone tracker, and it has some rights groups ...
Recreation for all, ensuring accessibility for everyone
RENO -- Ensuring accessibility for everyone, the Reno City Council approved the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) Transition Plan for Reno’s Parks and Recreation Facilities. Of the more than 89,000 units of local government in the United States, fewer than 10% have completed this mandatory planning process. The City ...
Senate passes bill for universal background checks on guns
CARSON CITY -- Survivors as well as family members of gun violence victims were present in the Senate Chamber today when a bill that would require background checks for individuals engaging in the private party sale of a firearm passed on a partisan vote of 11-10. Section 8 of ...
BLOG: Dr. Jekyll and Assemblywoman Hyde
You can count the number of philosophical, as opposed to rhetorical, conservatives serving in this year’s Nevada Legislature on one hand. Assemblywoman Michele Fiore (R-Las Vegas) is one of them. Alas, the freshman has proved to be quite the Jekyll-and-Hyde conservative. When Fiore has been right – as with ...
Reid, Sandoval seek to position Nevada as national clean energy leader
CARSON CITY -- U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval today jointly called for the passage of a legislative proposal to accelerate the retirement of coal plants owned by NV Energy and to expand renewable energy development in Nevada in the coming years. “This bill ...
Wackiness abounds during 2013 Bay Area race
Officials say that over 30,000 runners participated in the 102nd Bay to Breakers Sunday morning and as of noon that day, San Francisco Police had yet to report any notable incidents.
President Obama delivers commencement speech
President Barack Obama traveled to Atlanta to speak at the Morehouse College spring commencement, May 19, 2013.
Repeal of Nevada’s mining tax cap one step closer to 2014 public vote
CARSON CITY -- As the price of gold hit its lowest level in a month Thursday, the Assembly Committee on Taxation took a vote on a controversial resolution that would remove the state’s long-standing mining tax cap. Senate Joint Resolution 15 made its way through the Legislature during the ...
BLOG: Could disregard of the U.S. Constitution by Harry Reid end up dooming Obamacare?
LAS VEGAS -- The last time Obamacare was challenged before the U.S. Supreme Court, it barely survived. Only because Chief Justice John Roberts creatively re-construed the law’s unconstitutional penalties as constitutional “taxes” was a 5-to-4 Court majority able to form and save the gargantuan law, officially known as the ...
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