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Assembly Republican leadership calls for more campaign finance transparency
CARSON CITY – The leader of the Assembly Republican Caucus today used a Tuesday reporting deadline for candidates running for election this year to announce several proposals to require more accountability and transparency in the financing of campaigns in Nevada. “In order to help reduce the influence of money ...
Early voting offered at your Washoe County library
VOTE EARLY AT YOUR WASHOE COUNTY LIBRARY Voters can avoid long lines on Election Day by taking advantage of the convenience of early voting at four Washoe County libraries. Libraries will offer early voting for the Primary Election from May 26-June 8. Citizens can vote early at any location, no ...
BLOG: Candidates who speak with forked tongues
The voting public generally believes that all politicians lie, but few politicians go as far as Nevada Assemblyman Scott Hammond (R-Las Vegas) in justifying that belief. In a recent mailer for his campaign to move up to the state senate, Hammond - a public school teacher - wrote the following: ...
Presidential race gets local focus as Obama, Romney supporters weigh in on jobs, deficit
CARSON CITY -- While Mitt Romney and Barack Obama were campaigning elsewhere today, Nevada Democrats and Republicans took up the battle for the presidency on their behalf. Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., held a telephone conference call to talk up Romney’s credentials as a “turnaround specialist” who will get the country ...
Washoe Co commissioners review recommended final budget for 2012-13
RENO -- The Washoe County budget is one step closer to becoming final for the next fiscal year (FY 12/13) after a recommended final budget was presented to the Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday during the scheduled Board meeting. Washoe County is forecasting a decrease in revenue from all ...
BLOG: The Ron Paulbarians are at GOP’s Gate
The Nevada Republican Party convention this month was pretty much like every other GOP convention: Floor arguments over obscure Robert’s Rules of Order, bylaws and credentials. Lots of proverbial sound and fury signifying nothing. Only this year, on steroids. The convention was fairly evenly split between Mitt Romney supporters and ...
Americans for Prosperity responds to Obama speech
RENO -- Americans for Prosperity - Nevada (AFP-NV) today responded to President Obama's request that Congress extend certain clean energy tax credits. Americans for Prosperity pointed out that clean energy tax credits have a bad track record of creating jobs or promoting green energy technology. "Hard working Nevada taxpayers want ...
Obama wants Congress to help homeowners
RENO -- Refocusing on the economy, President Barack Obama on Friday pushed Republicans to back housing policies the White House says would help shore up struggling homeowners and prevent foreclosures. Against the backdrop of a middle-class neighborhood in economically hard-hit Nevada, Obama touted steps his administration has already taken to ...
Ron Paul takes bulk of Nevada delegates
SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul trumped presumptive nominee Mitt Romney in Nevada's national delegate count Sunday, but he will only be able to parlay those supporters into votes for his longshot bid at the national GOP convention if Romney fails to win the nomination in the ...
Romney, Paul supporters clash at Nevada GOP convo.
SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — It was out with the old Saturday at Nevada's state Republican convention, where two incumbents were ousted from the Republican National Committee and balloting stretched into the night to select delegates to the GOP presidential nominating convention this summer. National Committeewoman Heidi Smith and Committeeman Bob ...
Paul excites Nevada GOP with familiar themes
SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Republican presidential long-shot Ron Paul energized a loyal following at Nevada's GOP state convention with familiar themes, calling for limited government, limited spending and personal freedoms. Paul told a cheering crowd he'd cut $1 trillion from the federal budget and that people should have a "God-given ...
President Obama to Reno May 11; 3rd NV trip 2012
RENO, Nev. (AP) — President Obama plans to visit Reno next week and discuss the economy. The White House press office says the president will travel to Reno on Friday for an unspecified official event regarding the nation's economy. It will be his third trip to Nevada this year, his ...
GOP Senate hopeful heads to Reno for fundraiser
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Republican state Senate hopeful Mark Hutchison of Las Vegas is heading north to pad his campaign coffers. Hutchison will be attending a fundraiser in Reno on Tuesday at Rapscallion restaurant. According to the invitation from the campaign, the event is being hosted by Gov. Brian ...
Gov. Sandoval won't attend Nevada GOP convention
SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval won't be attending the state Republican convention in Sparks this weekend. An early agenda for the convention lists Sandoval as giving opening remarks Saturday. But a senior aide says Sandoval was never asked to speak by party officials. The governor instead will ...
Josh Romney to speak at Nevada GOP convention
SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — The son of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney will be in Sparks on Saturday to address the Nevada Republican convention. Josh Romney is scheduled to speak to around 10 a.m. Mitt Romney is the presumptive Republican nominee to challenge Democratic President Barack Obama in November. Nevada ...
Paul excites Nevada GOP with familiar themes
SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Republican presidential long-shot Ron Paul energized a loyal following at Nevada's GOP state convention with familiar themes, calling for limited government, limited spending and personal freedoms. Paul told a cheering crowd he'd cut $1 trillion from the federal budget and that people should have a "God-given ...
Why is higher ed getting pushed around?
The Redfield name can be seen all over campus at UNR. The Nell J. Redfield Foundation has given about $40 million during the past three decades for gems such as the auditorium in the math and science building, a student health clinic and the Redfield Theatre. So when a director ...
Sparks fly at Nevada Republican party convention
SPARKS — An impassioned motion to revoke credentials for more than 300 delegates who arrived after the meeting began. Heated questions about the presence of guests and whether they were voting. An angry motion to remove the convention chairman. And that was just for starters. More than 1,600 county delegates ...
BLOG: How businesses stop worrying and learn to love their regulators
We all know legislators love to legislate and regulators love to regulate - which often results in a perfect storm of government control over just about any business endeavor under the sun. But often you’ll find the very businesses being regulated cheering on even more regulation. Why? Simple: ...
BLOG: Being for one giant tax hike before being against another
OK, let’s say you’re a Nevada state senator who signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge promising the voters of your district and the citizens of Nevada that you would “oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes.” And let’s say while you were a state senator – say, ...
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