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At the request of HUD, the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority is in the process of identifying the number of households that rely on federal housing assistance that include undocumented family members.
The governor reiterated his desire for expedited release of federal lands for additional housing, adding “we have robust conversations going on with the Secretary of Interior," and "a good relationship with the federal administration and ability to communicate on a daily basis.”
It’s hard to see how war with Iran will slow the increase of — let alone bring down — the cost of anybody else’s insurance, or the cost of gasoline, groceries, electricity, car repairs, or anything else. But it’s sickeningly easy to envision how the war will make those costs bigger.
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The project is made possible by a grant funded by the Nevada Department of Agriculture using American Rescue Plan funds, and will expand food access for Elko, White Pine, Eureka and Lander counties.
The economic protest is another tool to pressure state officials to more closely scrutinize their arrangement with ViaPath, the telecommunications company contracted by NDOC to administer the services.
Democratic candidate for Nevada governor urges rethink of business-as-usual economic policies.
The resolution failed 47-52, with Rand Paul the only Republican supporting the the measure and John Fetterman the lone Democrat to oppose it.
With the second best farebox recovery ratio, RTC is the least subsidized bus system in the country. It is also the 13th busiest bus system overall.
From blanketing the state with high-speed internet to widening a critical Northern Nevada interstate, Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo has hailed programs enabled by former President Joe Biden’s spending initiatives, which the governor previously panned.
National and Nevada conservation groups have been publicly calling on Cortez Masto, who serves on the Senate committee that held hearings on the nominee, to vote against sending Pearce's nomination to the Senate floor for a confirmation vote.
“We expect exceptional leadership and you’ve demonstrated anything but that,” said Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC. “What we’ve seen is a disaster under your leadership. What we’ve seen is innocent people getting detained that turn out are American citizens.”
Trump said any price hikes would be temporary. “People felt it’s something that had to be done,” he said. “So if we have a little high oil prices for a little while, but as soon as this ends, those prices are going to drop, I believe, lower than even before.”
Once abundant across the American West, populations of the greater sage-grouse have dropped nearly 80% over the last six decades, with over half of that loss occurring in the last two decades alone.
Republican candidates seeking to represent Nevadans in Washington D.C. are praising Trump’s war on Iran, even as they avoid responding to questions about the president’s end game, his lack of congressional authorization, and his flip-flops on foreign intervention and regime change.
"We cannot build our way out of homelessness while allowing existing housing to erode."
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Advocates of free and fair elections are sounding alarms about Trump moves that are “designed to suppress and discourage us from participating actively in democracy.”
"This is an attempt to launch a long-sought after, ill-conceived regime change war that will destabilize Iran as well as the entire Middle East with millions of people being displaced and forced to flee," Titus said.
The route through the national conservation area was chosen to avoid constructing the pipeline through the City of Henderson, which would have cost an additional estimated $200 million. Cortez Masto said the final route was determined to be the safest, most effective, and least disruptive route.
“Owners should be able to challenge their association without fear of bankruptcy," say an HOA reform advocate.
As he seeks reelection, the governor will likely be sharing a campaign stage, perhaps more than once, with a president whose economic policies are hitting Nevada harder than any state in the country.
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Last year Cortez Masto reintroduced the Southern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act, which would make more federal land in Nevada available for private sale.
"We have this narrative that explicit misogyny is something from the ’50s and ’60s, and what we have now is like implicit bias and microaggressions...this made clear that explicit misogyny is still out there in science and in academia, it’s just perhaps behind closed doors.” via @19thnews.org
The agreement comes after NV Energy initially attempted to pay back just a fraction of the amount it overcharged customers.
Democratic Assemblymember Elaine Marzola, who chairs the interim committee, questioned why insurance companies need to raise rates so much while their profits are soaring.
“Trade on anything,” is the platform’s slogan. But prediction markets alone don’t make money, says the lawsuit filed by the Gaming Control Board last week. Sports bets, the suit alleges, make up 90% of Kalshi’s revenue.
“I feel like I’m being gaslit here... In a 2-minute timespan we’ve heard varying descriptions of where you are in the contract negotiations.”
The ACLU's Athar Haseebullah said it's not clear to him “how the DMV can simply walk back its erroneous representations about not using Signal to communicate as recently as two weeks ago,” adding “it’s even more bizarre that they’d expect the public to just take their word for things.”
