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Lombardo tries to hog credit for Biden administration achievements (again) • Nevada Current
“I’m pleased to announce the allocation of $250 million towards Middle Mile Infrastructure,” Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo said in a statement released by his office this week. “This significant investment will enhance internet connectivity in communities across Nevada that have struggled with inadequate internet access. By addressing these critical gaps, we are ensuring that all Nevadans have the opportunity to…
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Tahoe planning group exerts outsized influence on legislative oversight committee • Nevada Current
Overtourism, conflicts of interest, developer-initiated blight, vast pollution combined with microplastic contamination, and the lack of a comprehensive Tahoe basin evacuation plan are just some of the public safety and environmental problems raised by Tahoe residents during public comment at this year’s first two interim Nevada legislative oversight committee hearings. Unfortunately, members of the Legislative Committee for the Review and…
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Calling Jeff Gunter a swamp creature would be an insult to swamp creatures • Nevada Current
Jeff Gunter’s self-financed Senate campaign has thus far earned him little chance of winning the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen in the general election. But it has secured him a spot among the ranks of the most offensive office-seekers in Nevada political history. Last month Gunter ran an attack ad on the Republican primary frontrunner, Sam Brown.…
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Transparency at the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada • Nevada Current
The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada (PUCN), which regulates utility companies like NV Energy and Southwest Gas, must consider the daily challenges of Nevadans when making decisions that will directly impact our lives. The PUCN serves as the regulatory body to ensure utility companies operate while serving the public interest of customers and shareholders. Last year, I went to the…
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A look at the dark side • Nevada Current
Sixty years ago, an ecology professor from the University of Washington traveled to the Washington coastline to conduct a simple yet revealing experiment. He selected two separate distinct rocky patches of coastline with common characteristics. Each patch contained a similar mixture of marine organisms, ranging from limpets, snails, and mussel up to and including an orange starfish, the primary (or…
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Lombardo should have run against Rosen • Nevada Current
Gov. Joe Lombardo issued another press release masquerading as a letter to President Joe Biden about housing Thursday. Lombardo’s latest idea to address affordable housing – or rather, for the federal government to do it – as articulated in his press release/letter to the president Thursday, is to tell Biden to “embrace free market principles that rely on supply and…
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It’s time to make our primary elections make sense • Nevada Current
It’s primary season in Nevada, and once again our state’s complicated mixture of open and closed primaries is on full display. Candidates for city councils are running in nonpartisan open primaries, while races for county commission and state legislature are closed, partisan elections. Caught in the confusion are now the largest group of voters in Nevada, independents, officially called nonpartisans,…
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Relax, GOP. A veto-proof Democratic legislature won’t fix NV’s upside down tax system. (Sadly) • Nevada Current
Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo’s top priority over the next seven months until the 2024 election will be exactly the same as his top priority over the last 8 months since the 2023 legislative session ended: Do whatever he can to help the Better Nevada PAC that loves him defeat a few Democratic assembly candidates and deprive Democrats of the supermajority…
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Katie Britt and the unreality of Alabama immigration rhetoric • Nevada Current
Imagine if Alabama politicians started treating geothermal energy as a crisis. And not just criticizing particular practices or businesses. We’re talking about a heat pump apocalypse. Introducing legislation to criminalize steam. Storming library board meetings and demanding the removal of any book with the phrase “hot springs.” Using Hot Springs, Arkansas as a snickering shorthand for everything wrong with the…
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Do we simply not care about old people? • Nevada Current
The death toll was shocking, as were reports of chaos in nursing homes and seniors suffering from isolation, depression, untreated illness, and neglect. Around 900,000 older adults have died of COVID-19 to date, accounting for three of every four Americans who have perished in the pandemic. But decisive actions that advocates had hoped for haven’t materialized. Today, most people —…
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