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6 days ago · Trump’s election as president certified by Congress, four years after Capitol attack BY: Ashley Murray, Ariana Figueroa and Jennifer Shutt - January 6, 2025 WASHINGTON — Lawmakers certified President-elect Donald Trump’s win Monday in a smooth process that four years ago was disrupted by a violent mob of Trump supporters bent on stopping Congress from formally declaring President Joe ...
Nevada Economic Forum makes conservative state revenue …
Dec 3, 2024 · Nevada is projecting $12.4 billion in tax revenue over the next two fiscal years — $412 million, or 3.4%, more than what the state is projected to collect for the current biennium. The Economic Forum, a five-member panel of private sector fiscal analysts, on Monday approved the state revenue forecast for the upcoming 2025-27 fiscal […]
NV Energy seeks to prematurely recover costs of $4.2 billion ...
Jun 20, 2024 · When NV Energy CEO Doug Cannon pitched Nevada lawmakers in 2021 on Greenlink, a massive transmission line project estimated at the time to cost $2.5 billion, he promised “Nevadans will not be asked to pay for this investment until at least five to six years down the road.”. Now, with the project delayed about a year and estimated at $4.2 billion (not including monthly interest carrying ...
NV House Dems vote with Republicans for immigration bill critics …
2 days ago · Nevada’s Democratic House delegation backed federal legislation that allows undocumented immigrants to be detained for nonviolent offenses like shoplifting, and at least one of Nevada Democratic senators says she’ll vote for the bill when it is heard in that chamber. Immigration attorneys and coalitions warn the measure …
NV Energy seeks to hike rates to fund self-insurance policies …
4 days ago · NV Energy is asking the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada to allow it to establish a $500 million self-insurance fund in order to have adequate liability insurance in the event of a catastrophic wildfire alleged to “have been caused or exacerbated by utility equipment.” The fund would bring the utility’s coverage to close to $1 […]
End of early in person voting leaves Nevada Democrats with a lot …
Nov 2, 2024 · A little more than three-fourths of Nevada registered voters cast ballots in the last two presidential election cycles – 77% in 2016 and 78% in 2020. A similar turnout this year would mean about two-thirds of Nevadans who will vote have already done so, while at least a half million more will vote either in […]
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Nevada Current is a nonprofit online source of political and policy news and commentary. We seek to demonstrate how policies, institutions and systems make life harder for Nevadans than it needs to be; document how things got that way, and; explore what it might take to fix them.
Trump’s foolproof plan to reignite inflation • Nevada Current
Oct 17, 2024 · “It’s not a question of inflation anymore,” Donald Trump said in Las Vegas last weekend.. He’s not wrong. Inflation – the rate by which prices are going up – was 2.4% in September, the lowest rate it’s been in more than three years. Consumers of course are still paying prices that are higher than they were before the pandemic.
Rare Nevada butterfly proposed for endangered species protections
3 days ago · A rare tiny butterfly found only in a remote stretch of Northern Nevada will soon gain federal protections under the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday that the bleached sandhill skipper, a small golden-orange butterfly that typically measures under 2 inches long, warrants federal …