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Rebuked by election experts and Democrats as discriminatory legislation, a recent wave of GOP-backed voter reform bills will add more fuel to an ongoing debate about ......

Jack St. Martin on Wednesday was named president of Engage Nevada, a group that registered more than 30,000 conservative voters to fuel a Republican election wave that put the GOP in charge of state government and the Legislature....

Here's what it will do, sources say:
Increase of MBT (payroll tax) rate to 1.56, from 1.17.
Eliminate health care deduction for employers, which will put $32 million into state coffers. This will be controversial.
(Watch for gaming volcano -- a real one, not the one at The Mirage.)
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A survey commissioned by a PAC tied to Gov. Brian Sandoval finds good news for Speaker John Hambrick and bad news for the GOP Ass. Caucus/Citizen Outhouse wing of the Republican Party.
The Nevada Jobs Coalition, which helped take the state Senate, commissioned the survey by the well-regarded Tarranc...

After two days of early voting, if Las Vegas Councilman Stavros Anthony expected a high GOP turnout to fuel an upset, it's not happening.
And while he has a couple of spots that have aired that could resonate, he regularly changes traffic, including to respond to

More Nevada companies would be subject to a payroll tax and an annual business license fee would increase for most industries in a “hybrid tax plan” two GOP leaders will introduce Monday in the Legislature, according to a Republican familiar with a draft....

Likely GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush is returning to Las Vegas May 13 to headline the Clark County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day dinner....

Assembly Republicans have crafted a tax plan that is a hybrid of the business licesne fee component used by the govervor and an expansion of the payroll tax plan sought by some business types, sources confirm.
The plan is expected to drop Monday, the deadline for committee bill introductions.
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It happens every year -- thousands of voters knocked off the active rolls in Clark County because they have not cast ballots in several cycles and cannot be found.
It usually disproportionately hurts the Democrats, who have more transient voters -- and this month is no different: At the end of Febru...

Potential White House contender Hillary Clinton criticized the Republican-led U.S. Congress on Monday in a pair of tweets, calling Capitol Hill fights over a key Obama administration nominee and a human trafficking bill a “trifecta against women.”...

Is the GOP Assembly extortion probe the product of a top-down conspiracy or a warranted investigation? That depends on whether ......

Hundreds of union members rallied in front of the Nevada Legislature on Thursday to protest Republican efforts to curb collective bargaining and push public employee retirement reforms....

Republicans are sponsoring a bill that would make background checks for gun sales free and prevent more people with mental illness from having a firearm. SB240 was introduced in the Nevada Senate on Tuesday. It would expand ......

Metro detectives investigating extortion allegations leveled at conservative GOP activist Tony Dane continued on Monday to probe outside Nevada for information....

Democratic lawmakers say they have a better agenda for Nevada than what the Republican majority has been carrying out for the first five weeks of the ......

Republican senators warned Iran’s leaders on Monday that any nuclear deal with President Barack Obama could last only as long as he remains in office, an unusual partisan intervention into foreign policy that could undermine delicate international talks with Tehran....

California Republicans broke from their own platform on Sunday and voted overwhelmingly at their state party convention to give official recognition to a gay rights wing of the GOP that has long been marginalized....

Likely presidential candidate Jeb Bush is making the first of what could be many visits to Las Vegas with a stop today at a community center in Sun City Summerlin. Bush will stop by ......

If this week was any indication, Republicans could spend much of the 2016 presidential election attacking Democrats as weak on national security, rather than focusing on the economic concerns that have preoccupied voters in recent years....

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is in a dead heat with two prospective GOP challengers, Scott Walker leads the GOP field here and Hillary Clinton leads all Republican comers in Nevada, except for -- wait for it -- Gov. Brian Sandoval....

Illegal immigration bills that were considered dead on arrival when Democrats controlled the Nevada Legislature are now getting life, a result of the Republican ......

In the ongoing attempt by the secretary of state and the attorney general to probe GOP activist Tony Dane's suspicious quarter-million-dollar PAC contribution, the AG pointed out that the subject of the probe's lawyer apparently missed the point. The attorney then responded, in what seems to be his ...

Although taxes got the lion’s share of attention in the run-up to the 2015 Legislature, the subject has almost disappeared through week three of the session.For now.Instead, the focus has been on a collection of issue...

President Barack Obama on Tuesday swiftly delivered on his vow to veto a Republican bill approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada, leaving the long-debated project in limbo for another indefinite period....

Gov. Brian Sandoval on Monday urged Republicans in Congress to pass a homeland security bill by deadline this week and avert a shutdown that could disrupt millions of dollars in grants to Nevada and more than 1,500 government workers....

Latino voter turnout fell in 2014 below both 2012 and 2010, accounting in part for the drop in Democratic votes and the rising Republican wave that gave the GOP control of the U.S. Senate and both houses of the Nevada Legislature....

Although taxes got the lion’s share of attention in the run-up to the 2015 Legislature, the subject has almost disappeared through week three of the session.For now.Instead, the focus has been on a collection of issue...

The first in what is expected to be a series of tort reform bills introduced by the Republican majority was heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.Senate Majority Leader Michael Roberson, R-Las Vegas, sai...

Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske has no position on the governor's tax plan for education, leaving Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison as the only constitutional officer elected in The Sandoval Sweep backing the titular head of the GOP....

GOP activist and political consultant Tony Dane’s attorney has filed a motion seeking the return of Dane’s property, which Metropolitan Police Department detectives seized when executing a search warrant at Dane’s Virginia residence....