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CARSON CITY — The Nevada Senate Commerce, Labor and Energy Committee was urged on Wednesday to tighten rules so that people can't get ...

Special Olympics athletes, program leaders, Unified Partners and family members from 39 states and the District of Columbia converged on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Feb. 15, for Special Olympics’ 15th annual “Capitol Hill Day.”

CARSON CITY — The Nevada Legislature set a fast pace in its first week, beginning with a historic moment in the Assembly, political puffery in the Senate and committee hearings out of the starting block.

The 79th regular session of the biennial Nevada Legislature began Monday morning, drawing dozens of lawmakers, their staff and a crowd of lobbyists to Carson City for the next 120 days to vote on bills and craft a budget for the state's 2017-19 biennium.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev – Operation Sierra Storm, the television meteorologists’ conference organized by the Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority, generated national attention and provided comprehensive media results for South Lake Tahoe’s historic snowfall.

The Nevada Department of Veterans Services, in partnership with the United Veterans Legislative Council will be hosting an upcoming Legislative Summit in Carson City.

Last week Congressman Amodei and Senator Heller introduced legislation to “prevent the threat of executive action designating or expanding national monuments without Congressional approval or local support.” Their legislation would add Nevada to Wyoming as the only states exempt from presidential designation of National Monuments, except as authorized by Congress.

Here is the 2017 State of the State presented by Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval.

A year and a half ago, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid persuaded President Obama to set aside 700,000 acres of Nevada land as a national monument.

U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., announced Thursday that he will not run for governor and instead will run for re-election to the U.S. Senate.

It seemed cookie-cutter at the time, but the campaign to use Planned Parenthood defunding against Rep. Joe Heck in the Senate race was remarkably effecive, the group found in post-election polling.
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Late Friday night, the U.S. House of Representatives joined the U.S. Senate in passing the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act of 2016, which will bring $415 million in future funding to Lake Tahoe over the next seven years. The decision brought cheers from many local agencies, including the League to Save lake Tahoe and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.

The House and Senate have agreed to include the bipartisan Lake Tahoe Restoration Act in the final bicameral Water Resources Development Act, titled the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act, Nevada Sen. Dean Heller announced Monday.

Thanksgiving isn't a patriotic holiday per se, but it is full of patriotic feelings as Americans did and should give thanks for our shared blessings as a nation.

THE NEVADA INDEPENDENT IS COMING SOON!
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There was an insignificant dropoff from the presidential race to the U.S. Senate contest in Nevada, Hillary Clinton lost the rurals by nearly 40 (!) points and Catherine Cortez Masto won Clark ...

THE NEVADA INDEPENDENT IS COMING SOON!
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Much has been made of the high Latino vote in Nevada helping Hillary Clinton to a rare win a battleground state, and Catherine Cortez Masto to victory in the U.S. Senate race.

UPDATE 917PM FINAL RESULTS: Below is the FINAL Carson City General Election results for the Carson City area on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. Go here for the Carson City Elections Department.

The following are 100 percent of the votes counted: combined absentee, early voting, Carson City Courthouse election day results and the full list from the Carson City Community Center from tonight. Total voter count is 25,061. Carson City Clerk Sue Merriwether reports 91.79 percent of the registered voters turned out to vote.

Carson City Mayor (nonpartisan)

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval announced the appointment Friday of Bradley Crowell, as director of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, effective Dec. 12. Interim Director Kay Scherer will resume her position as Deputy Director of the Department.

CARSON CITY — A supermajority of Nevada lawmakers on Friday pushed through legislation that will raise the room tax in Clark County to help finance a 65,000-seat domed stadium, clearing the path for the relocation of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas.

CARSON CITY — A public financing plan for a $1.9 billion NFL stadium in Las Vegas cleared its first legislative hurdle Tuesday night with 16 senators voting for the deal and five against it.

More than 500 Carson High School seniors packed the bleachers on the big gym’s south end Thursday afternoon to welcome the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office to campus for the coolest civics lesson ever.

Finally. A bipartisan all out political campaign is launched against the pot industry written and financed Question 2 to legalize commercial marijuana in Nevada.

Strong statements of opposition to Q2 were made by Governor Brian Sandoval, Lt. Governor Mark Hutchison, Attorney General Adam Laxalt, Senator Dean Heller and 3 members of Nevada's House delegation.

Join us for a BBQ with Republican elected officials. Grab a yard sign to show your support for Donald Trump and Dr. Joe Heck! Stay and phone bank or canvass your neighborhood afterwards to help Mr. Trump take back the White House and hold our majority in the US Senate!

This is sure to be a lot of fun

RSVP appreciated but not required...

The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 2016. The bipartisan legislation provides federal, state and local partners important tools to reduce wildfire threats, improve water clarity, jumpstart innovative infrastructure projects, and combat invasive species.

U.S Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., stopped by the Carson City Democratic Headquarters on Saturday to stump for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and to celebrate the grand re-opening of Clinton's Carson City campaign office.

Streets and sidewalks around Carson City will be busier starting Monday morning as children throughout the district head back to school.

Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nv., who showed up at Tuesday’s Carson Republican Women’s Club luncheon to support Joe Heck’s senate bid, was instead faced with angry attendees demanding he endorse and vote for D ...

Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., who showed up at Tuesday’s Carson Republican Women’s Club luncheon to support Joe Heck’s senate bid, was instead faced with angry attendees demanding he endorse and vote for ...

This was Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid after Hillary Clinton's visit to Las Vegas at a union hall -- best part is at 2:40 when I asked him if Donald Trump is qualified to be president:

A “C” corporation, one that files and pays its own tax, has a maximum tax rate today of 34 percent. That makes it profitable to move jobs and investments to other countries that have lower tax rates. The proposal the House of Representatives recently sent to the Senate proposes a new flat rate for “C” corporations of 20 percent.