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Law-abiding retailers demand action on illegal vape market • Nevada Current
As the state executive of the Nevada Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association, I represent businesses in — and serving — convenience stores. Our members seek to provide a positive impact not only on the state’s economy, but also on the well-being of the communities we serve. Today, we face a significant and persistent problem: The marketplace is saturated with illegal vape products, and…
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The boldest step to close the racial wealth divide in generations • Nevada Current
Juneteenth celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the United States. But over 150 years later, discriminatory public policies have prevented African Americans from closing the racial wealth divide in this country they helped build. Policy created that divide — and policy can close it. One state is showing how to move forward in advancing racial economic equality. Last year,…
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‘Lost cause’ of our nation’s brutal racism permeates society, distorting history along the way • Nevada Current
Few images from the violent attacks on peacefully demonstrating teens from civil rights-era demonstrations convey the brutality of the era more than scenes from 1963 Birmingham and the powerful blasts from fire hoses and water cannons. Pressure from the hoses and water cannons — as much as 100 PSI — could break ribs. Rip out hair. Segregationists pummeled the youths…
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The hidden catalyst behind the radical right’s rise in Europe’s depopulating regions • Nevada Current
Earlier this spring, the European Parliament voted to overhaul its immigration policy to more evenly distribute responsibility among member states for managing the arrival of migrants and asylum-seekers. Lurking in the details of the agreement, however, are provisions allowing for payments to third countries to block the entry of asylum-seekers to Europe – and, more ominously, preliminary plans for mass…
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2020’s ‘fake elector’ schemes will be harder to try in 2024 – but not impossible • Nevada Current
Electors will gather across the United States in December 2024, just weeks after the election, and formally cast votes for president and vice president. They will send their votes to Congress, which will count them and determine who received the most votes. Typically, the casting of electoral votes is little more than a ceremonial process. But the last time this…
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American womanhood is not what it used to be − understanding the backlash to Dobbs v. Jackson • Nevada Current
As someone who over the past 50 years has thought about and written many books and articles on U.S. feminism, I should have been less surprised by the strong electoral backlash to the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs V. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, a judgment that overturned the 1973 Roe V. Wade decree and thus 50 years of national abortion…
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500 years ago, Machiavelli warned the public about self-interested charismatic figures • Nevada Current
A United States president sought to remain in office after his term ended, maintains a worshipful following and has declared he will operate as a dictator only on “day one” if reelected. His cunning and manipulation of American politics and its legal system have, so far, blocked efforts to hold him accountable. That sort of activity has been called “Machiavellian,”…
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Some of the false, curious, and just weird things a rambling Trump said in Las Vegas Sunday • Nevada Current
“Virtually 100 percent of the new jobs under Biden have also gone to illegal aliens. Did you know that? A hundred percent.” That was one of the false claims Donald Trump asserted during an address in Las Vegas Sunday that was predominantly about immigration but that veered wildly in multiple directions, including insulting his teleprompter provider, mulling the prospect of…
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Craving the spotlight, Kennedy sues Nevada • Nevada Current
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. sued Nevada’s secretary or state last week for not accepting Kennedy’s petition to be on the ballot as a presidential candidate. In March, Kennedy thought he had already gathered enough signatures on a petition to qualify him for Nevada’s ballot. However, in a glimpse of Kennedy’s executive acumen, it turned out the petition he submitted to…
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Affordable child care helped my family out of deep poverty. Can we save it? • Nevada Current
On a good day in December 1983, I cooked Vienna sausages and grits on a borrowed kerosene heater that — in my poverty-stricken state — felt like another mouth to feed. Every day I had to buy fuel for it. I’d vowed to lift myself and two boys out of destitution as soon as I could, either by getting a…
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