Nevada Politics

Carson City – Chris Forbush is pleased to announce his bid for the Assembly District 40 seat in the Nevada State Legislature.

When Hillary Clinton's campaign came to Nevada in the spring of 2015, when it hired a well-connected Latina to helm her campaign here and when the candidate arrived to get to the left of the president on immigration reform, the message was clear: I own the Latino vote.

The Lake Tahoe Restoration Act is headed for a vote in the U.S. Senate.The act providing $415 million to Tahoe Basin projects during the next decade has passed out of committee.The measure is sponsore ...

The petition to raise Nevada’s minimum wage survived its first court test Wednesday as Carson District Judge James Wilson ruled it can go forward without amendment.Backers including the Progressive Le ...

The Culinary is officially Switzerland, but like one of those watches, timing is everything.

A Reno radio talk show host and former chairman of the Washoe County Democrats who has announced plans to run against Republican Congressman Mark Amodei for Congressional District 2 spoke t ...

Patrick H. LeClaire, a resident of Fallon, was recently elected and installed as West Coast Regional president (RPWC) of the fleet Reserve Association (FRA), a congressionally-charted milit ...

How do you raise $1.8 million in on one year in Nevada if you are a local government official?
If you are Steve Sisolak, the chairman of the Clark County Commission (up this year) and a potential candidate for governor in 2018 (when he would be at midterm), you do this:

Attorney General Adam Laxalt — and his opponents — could get more than bargained for in his appeal of Carson District Judge James Wilson’s preliminary injunction blocking the release of school voucher ...

The Las Vegas Sands, a k a Sheldon Adelson, gave $204,000 in campaign contributions in state and local races in 2015, secretary of state's records show.
Just under half ($87,500) went to legislative candidates as both houses are up for grabs next cycle, including a couple of Democrats (Olivia Di ...

It's good to be a monopoly.
Of the $147,000 it gave in 2015, NV Energy coughed up $55,000 after the session to legislators and their PACs, according to records on the secretary of state's web site.
More to come in 2016.
All of the contributions, in reverse chronological order, are listed below.

The bill for holding a four-day special legislative session last month to lure carmaker Faraday Future to Nevada is larger than one to clear tax breaks for Tesla.

School safety, STEM education and a report on the $10 million Carson City Race to the Top grant’s statistical insights are anticipated at the Carson City Community Center in a joint meeting ...

Attorney General Adam Laxalt and Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison issued a joint statement on Thursday effectively agreeing to bury the hatchet in their dispute over Hutchison’s lawsuit seeking dismissal of ...

Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison filed a report with the Secretary of State’s office this week reporting he collected more than $400,000 in campaign contributions during the past year.The annual report also st ...

While the debate roiled this week over rooftop solar and state regulators denying a stay of news rates, a class-action suit was filed alleging a bait and switch by the utility.
This was inevitable, I suppose, and is far from the end of this political/legal/public policy battle.
You can read it here.

When all the bills are finally in, the 29th special session of the Legislature to workout the Faraday Future deal will have cost just shy of $250,000.Legislative Counsel Bureau Director Rick Combs sai ...

The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously rejected Fernley’s attempt to receive a bigger share of Lyon County’s tax revenues.The court agreed with District Judge Todd Russell that, w ...

Nevada prisons have added more guards and trained officers how to use rubber bullets in an effort to end deadly shootings behind bars, officials said Thursday, but they also defended the use of shotguns if all els ...

Employee representatives raised concerns on Wednesday that signing a new health maintenance organization (HMO) contract for the Nevada Public Employee Benefits Program would cost state workers another ...

This will be a clearinghouse for campaign reports, which are due Jan. 15 for 2015. I will post them as I see them.....
1/13/16, 3:15 PM:
In what may be a blueprint we will see in other reports, we have evidence of the Establishment coalescing to protect Republicans who voted for taxes in Session ...

The Churchill County Commissioners approved at their first meeting of the month an application to change the parcel of land in the A10 district owned by the Truckee Carson Irrigation District (TCID) t ...

The Board of Examiners on Tuesday voted to accept a gift of 45 acres of land adjacent to the Nevada Tahoe State Park from the Nevada Land Trust.State Lands Administrator Charlie Donohue said the prope ...

The Board of Examiners on Tuesday approved a series of contracts with Medicaid service providers totaling more than $1.8 billion.The two largest contracts are expansions of existing agreements with tw ...

The Nevada Department of Transportation Board on Monday approved a $75.9 million contract with Ames Construction to build the USA Parkway connecting Interstate 80 to U.S. 50 through the Tahoe Reno Ind ...

This political season, so far, has been, “entertaining — in a scary way.”That’s how University of Nevada, Reno Political Scientist Eric Herzik put it.He and Political Science professor Fred Lokken of ...

This went out Saturday from Carol Bundy, Cliven's wife. This is not a joke. Or....
 

Lyon County brothel owner Dennis Hof said Friday he will run for the state Senate seat being vacated by Greg Brower.Hof made the announcement at a Libertarian Party press conference in Las Vegas. Hof ...

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is trying to woo Jacky Rosen, head of a prominent temple, to run for Congress, sources confirm.
Rosen, who plans a DC trip next week, was not available. But I'm told the godfather and his political consigliere, Rebecca Lambe, have talked to Rosen, who helms Cong ...

With Bernie Sanders up since the holidays, Hillary Clinton on Friday began advertising in the all-important state of...Nevada.
It's an equal pay ad.