Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The state's university regents, trying to cope with budget woes, will consider a proposal at their August meeting in Reno to shut down a debt-laden firefighting academy in eastern Nevada.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
A timeline of events leading to the Energy Department submitting a license application for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository project in Nevada:
Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Gov. Jim Gibbons, who went to Iraq to meet with Nevadans on duty there and to be briefed by U.S. military officials, said Tuesday he wanted to ensure that the troops know "our entire state is standing behind them."
NAMIC (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Longtime Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice A. Molasky-Arman has decided to retire effective Sept. 7, 2008, Gov. Jim Gibbons announced April 25.
Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
Nevada's wildlife and how it's to be managed are at an important crossroad, according to hunters and conservation groups who are battling over who should oversee the state's bighorn sheep, mule deer and other creatures.
Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
The last time a Nevada governor found himself at the bottom of a giant budget hole, he went to the Legislature and muscled through a historic tax increase to dig the state out of it.
Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
Gov. Jim Gibbons is gathering names of Nevadans interested in serving on a panel modeled after former President Reagan's Grace Commission that in 1984 produced nearly 2,500 ideas for cutting government waste, but saw disappointing results.
Las Vegas Gleaner (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
Regarding Gov. Pervus A. McSkanktard's thwarted and clumsy attempt to look like he's doing something about the state's health care crisis by ousting some doctors from the state medical board and then flippity-flopping like the mercurial, two-faced untrustworthy pathological liar...
Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | 03/29/2008
Reversing course, Gov. Jim Gibbons on Friday ended efforts to oust three doctors from the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners because of their ties to the owner of a Las Vegas clinic where flawed procedures set off a regional health scare.
Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | 03/29/2008
Efforts are over to oust three doctors from the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners because of their ties to the owner of a Las Vegas clinic where flawed procedures set off a regional health scare.
Las Vegas Gleaner (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
Happy Presidents Day, the one day of the year that Americans set aside to give special treatment to the white Christian males who best reflect the establishmentarian status quo. High-level War Party contributors and apparatchiks confab in Beverly Hills. After writing some hefty checks and spending a few minutes pretending there is a snowball's chance in hell that their presidential nominee by default,...
NoisyRoom.net (Free subscription) | 02/14/2008
From Citizen Outreach: By: Chuck Muth A MATTER OF MIXED-UP PRIORITIES The teachers union re-filed their tax-hike initiative last week and renamed it “Save Our Schools with Additional Funding for Salaries and Student Achievement.” Apparently the union wants the public to believe that if we just pay teachers more money, they'll do a better job – proving [...]
Sierra Club Compass (Free subscription) | 02/13/2008
There's been some great work identifying Nevada's huge clean energy potential, and a new report out from The Energy Foundation lays out some specific doable projects that can be started now and help the state avoid building any new coal-fired...
Las Vegas Gleaner (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed an economic stimulus package that includes assistance for poor old people and disabled veterans, over the objections of Nevada Sen. John Ensign, who hates poor old people and disabled veterans (WaPo). In a statement, the...
Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | 12/20/2007
A key Nevada lawmaker raised questions Wednesday about a court ruling enabling Gov. Jim Gibbons to hide details of proposed budget cuts and promised to work to close legal loopholes that can be used to defend the secrecy.
