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3 days ago · Democrats ‘at a loss’ to understand how Lombardo sent them a budget with a $335M deficit BY: April Corbin Girnus - January 22, 2025 Gov. Joe Lombardo may have struck a conciliatory tone toward legislative Democrats in his state of the state speech last week, but errors made by his office are bringing early acrimony to the state budgeting process.
Funding will advance supportive housing for those experiencing ...
3 days ago · The Nevada Housing Division is on track to approve nearly $12 million in funding to develop roughly 200 units of permanent supportive housing throughout the state to help people experiencing homelessness. Assembly Bill 310, which was passed by state lawmakers in 2023 and went into effect in January 2024, appropriated $30 million to the division […]
The state of the state is static • Nevada Current
Jan 17, 2025 · “In 2022,” Gov. Joe Lombardo observed during his state of the state speech Wednesday, “Nevada voters elected a sheriff to be their governor.” And then in 2024 Nevada voters elected as president someone found liable of sexual abuse by one jury and guilty of 34 felonies by another for covering up hush money payments to […]
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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.
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TikTok ban poised to disrupt information ecosystem, livelihood of millions of users BY: Paige Gross - January 17, 2025 As the fate of widely popular short-form video app TikTok hung in the balance this week, creators, users and social media experts lamented the cultural and economic losses U.S. users could experience if the app is banned this weekend.
Election 2024 Archives - Nevada Current
Nov 20, 2024 · Nevadans will make their voices heard in the election this year. This year’s ballot includes the presidential race, competitive U.S. Senate and House races, dozens of legislative races, and seven ballot measures. Here you’ll find all …
2024 Voter Guide - Nevada Current
As in previous election cycles, the Nevada Current has deliberately focused mostly on down-ballot and especially non-partisan races. Those contests for judges, school board and the like often get little attention and can be the most puzzling to voters. State legislative races that are covered are those that are competitive, and that will determine control of …
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 […]
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Jan 5, 2025 · Effort to block Reno data center offers glimpse of increasingly thorny issue in Nevada BY: April Corbin Girnus - January 10, 2025 An environmental group is appealing the recent approval of a data center by the Reno Planning Commission, arguing the city established zoning guidelines for data centers without giving the public the opportunity to weigh in. Webb Data Center, a planned 82,000-square ...