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The government shutdown scrambled air travel, interrupted food assistance and forced federal workers to go without a paycheck for weeks. As the government began to reopen Thursday, officials were working to untangle those issues and others.
Air travel, SNAP benefits, back pay at issue as federal government slowly reopens • Nevada Current
WASHINGTON — The record 43-day government shutdown that ended Wednesday night scrambled air travel, interrupted food assistance and forced federal workers to go without a paycheck for weeks. It also c...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The government shutdown scrambled air travel, interrupted food assistance and forced federal workers to go without a paycheck for weeks. As the government began to reopen Thursday, officials were working to untangle those issues and others.
Lombardo is asking lawmakers to do during a legislative special session what they didn’t during the regular session earlier this year: pass his crime bill.
Lawman-turned-governor revives his failed crime bill • Nevada Current
During the special legislative session which starts this week, Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo is asking lawmakers to do what they didn’t during the regular session earlier this year: pass a crime bill h...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Lombardo is asking lawmakers to do during a legislative special session what they didn’t during the regular session earlier this year: pass his crime bill.
"The story of that quilt is telling. Regardless of what you think about Israel or international law or student activists, or appliqué quilt art, it is a story of obedience in advance by administrators."
Commentary via @michiganadvance.com
Commentary via @michiganadvance.com
The University of Michigan is censoring a quilt? • Nevada Current
If you explore the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor, go upstairs, and find the Opera Room, you might see a quilt. It is a work by Toby Millman, a University of Michigan faculty member and alum, and was com...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"The story of that quilt is telling. Regardless of what you think about Israel or international law or student activists, or appliqué quilt art, it is a story of obedience in advance by administrators."
Commentary via @michiganadvance.com
Commentary via @michiganadvance.com
“Once the government reopens, the president, as he’s always maintained, is absolutely open to having conversations about health care,” Leavitt said. “And I think you’ll see the president putting forth some really good policy proposals..."
Government to reopen after 43 days: US House sends bill to Trump ending shutdown • Nevada Current
This report has been updated. WASHINGTON — The U.S. House approved a spending package Wednesday evening that will reopen the government and end the longest shutdown in the nation’s history, once Presi...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“Once the government reopens, the president, as he’s always maintained, is absolutely open to having conversations about health care,” Leavitt said. “And I think you’ll see the president putting forth some really good policy proposals..."
A massive expansion of Nevada’s film tax credit program that has garnered spirited bipartisan support as well as intense bipartisan opposition will be on the agenda when state lawmakers convene for a special legislative session Thursday.
Film tax credits made the cut in Lombardo’s special session proclamation • Nevada Current
A massive expansion of Nevada’s film tax credit program that has garnered spirited bipartisan support as well as intense bipartisan opposition will be on the agenda when state lawmakers convene for a ...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
A massive expansion of Nevada’s film tax credit program that has garnered spirited bipartisan support as well as intense bipartisan opposition will be on the agenda when state lawmakers convene for a special legislative session Thursday.
As of early September, the discharge petition, led by Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., had garnered the signatures of all Democrats and four Republicans, leaving the petition just one shy of the 218 signatures needed to bypass Johnson and force a vote on the House floor.
Arizona’s Adelita Grijalva sworn in to US House, signs Epstein petition • Nevada Current
WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva was sworn in to office Wednesday after a delay that U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson attributed to the long government shutdown, but that critics allege wa...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
As of early September, the discharge petition, led by Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., had garnered the signatures of all Democrats and four Republicans, leaving the petition just one shy of the 218 signatures needed to bypass Johnson and force a vote on the House floor.
In a January 2019 email, Epstein referenced a victim’s name, redacted, as having been at Trump’s Florida estate and private club, Mar-a-Lago, and wrote “Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever. Of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop.”
Trump ‘spent hours’ with Epstein victim at financier’s home, emails reveal • Nevada Current
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Democrats investigating the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein released emails Wednesday they say show President Donald Trump knew about the financier’s abuse of underage girls ...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
In a January 2019 email, Epstein referenced a victim’s name, redacted, as having been at Trump’s Florida estate and private club, Mar-a-Lago, and wrote “Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever. Of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop.”
After two years of state negotiations, some conservation groups urged the Bureau of Reclamation to move on to the public NEPA process without a state consensus plan. "The states don’t deserve the kid-glove treatment any longer,” said the executive director of the Great Basin Water Network.
With Upper, Lower basin states still snagged, feds give them more time to craft Colorado River plan • Nevada Current
Nevada and six other Colorado River states failed to reach a broad agreement Tuesday on how to share the river’s dwindling water supply, missing a federally-imposed deadline after days of intense clos...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
After two years of state negotiations, some conservation groups urged the Bureau of Reclamation to move on to the public NEPA process without a state consensus plan. "The states don’t deserve the kid-glove treatment any longer,” said the executive director of the Great Basin Water Network.
Killing contests have been banned in most western states, including Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. Nevada competitions are routinely organized and advertised in those states.
Sanctioning killing contests ‘pours fuel’ on controversy, says wildlife commissioner • Nevada Current
The Nevada Wildlife Commission voted Saturday to legitimize coyote killing contests, after a nearly decade-long effort to ban the events, which are opposed by a majority of Nevadans. The move, some sa...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Killing contests have been banned in most western states, including Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. Nevada competitions are routinely organized and advertised in those states.
“More details about what’s in the bill and what’s not in the bill are going to become more evident,” Horsford said. “People are already upset and pissed with what the Senate has done. When you really drill down on what’s in there... that's going to make more people say, ‘what are we doing?’”
Horsford slams bill that does zip on insurance costs but lets GOP senators sue the government • Nevada Current
The Senate resolution that reopens the federal government without extending health care subsidies, but allows some Republicans to sue the government over the Jan. 6 investigation, is “betrayal of a bi...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“More details about what’s in the bill and what’s not in the bill are going to become more evident,” Horsford said. “People are already upset and pissed with what the Senate has done. When you really drill down on what’s in there... that's going to make more people say, ‘what are we doing?’”
“We urge Congress to immediately pass a clean continuing resolution to reopen the federal government,” said a letter whose signatories included MGM, Caesars, Venetian, and the LVCVA, echoing the position reiterated by Trump and Republicans throughout the shutdown.
NV gaming/tourism sided with Trump on shutdown, made sure Rosen knew it • Nevada Current
The capitulation by a handful of moderate Senate Democrats, including Nevada’s two senators, to end the government shutdown came days after Nevada resort and tourism officials sided with the White Hou...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“We urge Congress to immediately pass a clean continuing resolution to reopen the federal government,” said a letter whose signatories included MGM, Caesars, Venetian, and the LVCVA, echoing the position reiterated by Trump and Republicans throughout the shutdown.
As health costs reach a crisis point, a yawning gulf exists between voters’ desire for more aggressive action and the political urgency — or lack thereof — in Washington for sweeping change. Via @kffhealthnews.org
Shutdown has highlighted Washington’s retreat from big ideas on health care • Nevada Current
In the run-up to the 2020 election, all 20 Democratic presidential candidates promised voters they’d pursue bold changes to health care, such as a government-run insurance plan or expanding Medicare t...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
As health costs reach a crisis point, a yawning gulf exists between voters’ desire for more aggressive action and the political urgency — or lack thereof — in Washington for sweeping change. Via @kffhealthnews.org
“This frivolous case now belongs in the trash bin of history,” said the CEO of Lambda Legal. “But let’s not be naïve: our opponents are well-resourced and determined.” Via @19thnews.org
Supreme Court declines to hear case to overturn marriage equality • Nevada Current
This story was originally by The 19th. The Supreme Court will not hear a case to overturn marriage equality, it announced on Monday. The justices have rejected a petition from Kim Davis, the Kentucky ...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“This frivolous case now belongs in the trash bin of history,” said the CEO of Lambda Legal. “But let’s not be naïve: our opponents are well-resourced and determined.” Via @19thnews.org
“In Nevada and nationally, Democrats still need to figure out who we are and what we’re fighting for, because I think there is an extreme disconnect between what people actually want and need and what our politicians in the Democratic Party are willing to fight for,” said consultant Annette Magnus.
Pols, consultants mull last week's Democratic sweep as a harbinger for Nevada • Nevada Current
Off-year elections are generally unremarkable. But the victories last week of Democratic candidates for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, a Democratic Socialist mayoral candidate in New York, and a California ballot question with the potential to upend the balance of power in the U.S. House of Representatives, are prompting introspection on both sides of […]
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November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“In Nevada and nationally, Democrats still need to figure out who we are and what we’re fighting for, because I think there is an extreme disconnect between what people actually want and need and what our politicians in the Democratic Party are willing to fight for,” said consultant Annette Magnus.
Several Senate Democrats left a lengthy closed-door meeting earlier Sunday night upset that the deal does not include anything to address rising health care premiums, on which the party has staked the 40-day shutdown.
Both Nevada senators among Democratic faction voting with Republicans to end shutdown • Nevada Current
This report has been updated. WASHINGTON — Seven U.S. Senate Democrats and one independent joined Republicans on Sunday night in advancing legislation to reopen the government and temporarily keep it ...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Several Senate Democrats left a lengthy closed-door meeting earlier Sunday night upset that the deal does not include anything to address rising health care premiums, on which the party has staked the 40-day shutdown.
Saturday’s guidance from the USDA marked the latest turnaround in a chaotic few days for the agency, states that administer SNAP, and the millions of Americans who depend on it.
Trump administration tells states that paid full SNAP benefits for November to 'undo' them • Nevada Current
Following a late Friday emergency ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Trump administration has instructed states that authorized full November nutrition assistance benefits to return a portion, an...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Saturday’s guidance from the USDA marked the latest turnaround in a chaotic few days for the agency, states that administer SNAP, and the millions of Americans who depend on it.
The SNAP situation Friday was all over the map, both literally and figuratively.
US Supreme Court temporarily blocks November SNAP payments • Nevada Current
The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked Friday night a lower court’s order that the Trump administration pay for a full month of food benefits, hours after some states began loading nutrition assis...
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November 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The SNAP situation Friday was all over the map, both literally and figuratively.
“We’d like to offer a simple proposal,” Schumer said. “To reopen the government and extend the (Affordable Care Act) tax credits simultaneously.”
Senate Democrats make an offer, Republicans bat it down, Trump says end the filibuster, shutdown continues • Nevada Current
WASHINGTON — Senators on Friday said they plan to remain in town for the weekend, a sign negotiations may be picking up to approve a stopgap spending measure and end the government shutdown, now at da...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
“We’d like to offer a simple proposal,” Schumer said. “To reopen the government and extend the (Affordable Care Act) tax credits simultaneously.”
A proclamation has yet to be issued announcing the agenda of a special legislative session, which may happen as soon as next week. But it is largely expected that the proposal to massively expand Nevada’s film tax credit program will be on the list. A recap of what it is and how we got here:
From top billing to the cutting room floor and back again: A recap of NV's film tax credit saga • Nevada Current
A proclamation has yet to be issued announcing the date and agenda of a much rumored, unofficially announced special legislative session, which may happen as soon as next week. However, it is largely ...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A proclamation has yet to be issued announcing the agenda of a special legislative session, which may happen as soon as next week. But it is largely expected that the proposal to massively expand Nevada’s film tax credit program will be on the list. A recap of what it is and how we got here:
For more than a decade Nevada, notorious for both a low-wage economy and underfunded public services, has been giving tax breaks to a company that has now authorized a pay package for Musk that's nearly four times the size of Nevada’s gross domestic product.
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Musk's $1 trillion pay package isn't Nevada’s fault, but it symbolizes a lot of stuff that is • Nevada Current
It wasn’t that long ago, in March, 2023, when the state of Nevada awarded Tesla $412 million in tax breaks for expanding its industrial footprint in Nevada, which Tesla was almost assuredly going to d...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
For more than a decade Nevada, notorious for both a low-wage economy and underfunded public services, has been giving tax breaks to a company that has now authorized a pay package for Musk that's nearly four times the size of Nevada’s gross domestic product.
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Instead of “giving money away, we should be creating new revenue sources to fund things like child care, pre-K and a wide array of other programs,” said Denise Tanata with The Children’s Cabinet.
As governor, lawmakers mull special session agenda, child advocacy groups have some ideas • Nevada Current
Nevada’s child care crisis should warrant a special session rather than efforts to give public subsidies to film studies, advocacy groups say. “We don’t think this is the time where we need to be giv...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Instead of “giving money away, we should be creating new revenue sources to fund things like child care, pre-K and a wide array of other programs,” said Denise Tanata with The Children’s Cabinet.
A law passed by the state Legislature this year requires that utilities pay back all overcharges with interest. Active customers will get a credit to their bills, while previous customers will receive a refund, according to the law.
NV Energy overcharged customers $65.4 million over more than two decades • Nevada Current
NV Energy estimates it overcharged customers at both ends of the state by a total of $65.4 million from 2002 through 2024, the company reported in response to an investigation by the Nevada Public Uti...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A law passed by the state Legislature this year requires that utilities pay back all overcharges with interest. Active customers will get a credit to their bills, while previous customers will receive a refund, according to the law.
The 13 pet stores within Las Vegas city limits have three years to adjust their business models following a vote by the city council to ban the retail sale of pets.
Las Vegas Council approves retail pet sale ban, effective in 2028 • Nevada Current
The 13 pet stores within Las Vegas city limits have three years to adjust their business models following a vote Wednesday by the City Council to ban the retail sale of pets. The ordinance, proposed ...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The 13 pet stores within Las Vegas city limits have three years to adjust their business models following a vote by the city council to ban the retail sale of pets.
Because the reductions are to the nation’s busiest airports that serve as hubs for the major airlines, they will also affect airports that aren’t on the list but depend on flights to and from those hubs.
Las Vegas among airports hit by FAA's 10% flight reductions; nationally, 3,300 flights daily to be canceled • Nevada Current
The 40 airports set to see a 10% reduction in flights during the government shutdown nearly matched the list of the nation’s busiest airports, according to a preliminary list seen by States Newsroom, ...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Because the reductions are to the nation’s busiest airports that serve as hubs for the major airlines, they will also affect airports that aren’t on the list but depend on flights to and from those hubs.
“This is probably the largest and most organized objection to an application that I’ve seen,” said a Clark County planning commissioner.
Moapa residents win a round in bout against proposed cement plant • Nevada Current
Moapa residents opposing a planned mine and cement manufacturing facility in the area were handed a win Tuesday after the Clark County Planning Commission unanimously voted to deny a plan to rezone hu...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“This is probably the largest and most organized objection to an application that I’ve seen,” said a Clark County planning commissioner.