Archive for April, 2009
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Friday, April 24th, 2009Key Nevada lawmakers said the hole in the state’s budget has grown by another $100 million, bringing the projected shortfall closer to $3 billion to maintain current government service levels in the next two fiscal years.
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Swine flu cases put Nevada health officials on alert (Las Vegas Sun)
Friday, April 24th, 2009Nevada state health officials are on heightened alert after a federal agency confirmed seven cases of swine flu in people who appear to have had no contact with pigs.
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Nevada budget hole grows (Channel 8 San Diego)
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009Associated Press - April 22, 2009 6:44 PM ET CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Key lawmakers say the hole in Nevada’s budget has grown by another $100 million, bringing the shortfall closer to $3…
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CFB: Gun charge followed fight with Nevada football players (Honolulu Advertiser)
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009RENO, Nev. — Nevada athletic officials say the arrest and subsequent dismissal of Ahyaro Phillips from the men’s basketball team followed an altercation with two Nevada football players at an off-campus party.
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Nevada Assembly advances autism treatment bill (Reno Gazette-Journal)
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009The Nevada Assembly has advanced a plan that would require some health insurers to cover screening and treatment of children for autism.
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Nevada lawmakers race toward deadline (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009CARSON CITY — Nevada legislators voted Monday for about 80 measures, on subjects ranging from identity theft to sex traffickers, in efforts to meet another deadline and keep the bills from ending up on the 2009 session’s scrap heap.
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Nevada governor’s woes may test public’s patience (AP via Yahoo! News)
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009Things were already bad for Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons. His approval ratings were down, he was tagged as one of the nation’s most vulnerable governors and fellow Republicans were lining up to challenge him in a primary more than a year away.
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Group mounts drive to add Nevada legal aid lawyers (Reno Gazette-Journal)
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Law Foundation is raising funds to address a shortage of legal aid lawyers reported by a panel set up by the state Supreme Court.
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Going Against the Trend, Nevada Lawmakers Consider Easing the State’s Ban on Smoking
Monday, April 20th, 2009The Nevada Senate advanced a measure that would allow smoking in taverns that serve food after owners complained of falling gambling revenue.
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Loss of Tax Revenues Is Felt Acutely in West, Report Finds
Monday, April 20th, 2009The report, by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, found that sharp declines in tax revenue hit much of the West early and hard.
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