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A couple of local businesses were fined today for violating the law on selling alcohol to minors. Both stated it was accidental.

by DonMac

From Partnership Carson City:
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11:12am. Highway 395 has been re-opened.
9:15am
A head-on crash between a pickup and an SUV has shut down 395 three miles south of Gardnerville in Douglas County.

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Nevada’s “economic engine,” Las Vegas is still reeling from horrible weaknesses in the housing market. And there’s no let up in sight.

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A Government Accounting Office report appears to be among the last nails into the coffin of the decades-long argument over the Yucca Mountain project.

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Three major parks projects are moving ahead rapidly, with more on the way!

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Governor Gibbons will meet with the news media next Tuesday morning to outline his major state budgetary concerns.

by Scott Schrantz

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Sen. Reid says the medical reform bill in front of the Senate has nothing to do with rationing health care.

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Major Reno area tourism recruitment effort has been cut by over fifty jobs in the past year. Isn’t tourism our main economic source?

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Revenue streams from sales tax down to real estate transfers are shrinking by the month. Gov.

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After negotiators for residents and mortgage lenders weighed in, the Bank of America came out with a lousy report card.

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Tax revenues continue to fall in Nevada, especially in one category that is easily one of THE most important in the state.

Sales taxes, the mainstay of state and local governments, continued their plunge during the month of September.

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LV, turning up the marketing heat, hoping to get it’s share of the emerging economic giant of the far east…

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Nevada’s casino figures are looking more like international titans than hometown Nevada boys. You can see where their money is going…

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It may not be long before the BLM gives the green light to the start of what may become Nevada’s next great economic boost.

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Senator Reid is shopping for a replacement for the republican who wants to unseat Jim Gibbons.

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Another drinker off the road. But for how long?

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Carson City Supervisors this week exploring “recycling on steriods” as a way of extending the life of the landfill with an added benefit of a revenue stream for city hall.

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In yet another seemingly pointless battle of “he say, they say,” Governor Gibbons engages in another argument with legislative leaders over what in fact is a procedural iss

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Sen. Ensign says he can’t resign and add a race for his seat a distraction from what he calls the number one political goal next November: The defeat of Sen. Harry Reid.

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While Nevada’s gaming giants turn to overseas markets for expansion, many Nevada families are having to turn to federal bankruptcy courts just to survive…

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A member of a national white motorcycle gang is in custody after failing to do what he was told to do in a downtown area bar.

3:43pm
Fire units are enroute to a report of a chimney fire at a home at 1851 No. Nevada. Resident said he came home to find his home filled with smoke.

8:16am: Fire found to be an illegal burn. Resident illegally burning brush on his property without a control burn permit from the fire department. Fire extinguished.

Nevada’s worsening economy is weighing heavily in Las Vegas with city workers there becoming more fearful by the day for their jobs.

So much for the “blizzard of late November.” It used to be that you could cut the National Weather Service storm forecasts in half. It looks like we might have to start cutting them by two-thirds.

by DonMac