CARSON CITY -- Negotiations between leaders of the Legislature broke off Friday in an unsuccessful effort to reach a compromise tax plan and the lawmakers will resume their special session this weekend and Monday.
For weeks after the constitutionally mandated end to the regular session, 15 Assembly Republicans continued to hold up the two-thirds provision, which requires a two-thirds vote for new taxes, as a reason they could hold ...
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Among the names that jumped out were Tom Breitling and Tim Poster (the partners who sold Travelscape.com and recently bought the Golden Nugget), real-estate titan Mark Weinberg, young developer Douglas Crook, former Sporting House owner ...
In one day the justices achieved what Gov. Kenny Guinn had declared six months ago as a verity -- he averred that those legislators who do not come along on taxes are "irrelevant" -- and ...
Let's save the money. Get rid of the legislators and just have the governor show up every two years, show his budget to the Supreme Court (they don't have to actually read the thing), and ...
Every Nevadan will look at his or her wallet when the Legislature finally comes up with a plan to fund the state budget and wonder what the impact will be.
The incident raised larger questions about the Energy Department's plan to ship far more dangerous high-level nuclear waste to Nevada's Yucca Mountain from sites nationwide, including sites in California.
It's unfortunate that the governor had to call upon the Nevada Supreme Court to loosen the legislative knot in Carson City. But owing to the governor's petition, and owing to the Supreme Court's decisiveness, the ...
With the Supreme Court's decision waiving the constitutional requirement that two-thirds of all lawmakers vote to approve a tax increase, both houses of the Legislature are expected to pass a tax plan to fund the ...
