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Nevada officials, veterans worry VA cuts could impact access to healthcare and other benefits
VA branches that cover Nevada, which is home to more than 200,000 veterans, employ a combined roughly 4,800 full-time employees and complete more than one million healthcare visits each year — leaving some worried that any cuts to the agency will impact their wellbeing. Amid recently announced plans to eliminate roughly 82,000 jobs at the…
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Cuidado: esta “carta de deportación” que envían por correo no es genuina: es un prank (una broma pesada)
El DHS (el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional) no envía correos titulados “cartas de deportación” o “estás siendo deportado”. Manda una notificación de comparecencia (“notice to appear”) que incluye el nombre de la persona, la fecha de su audiencia ante un juez de inmigración y la firma de un funcionario de la agencia.
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Report: Nearly 40K workers in Nevada still make below minimum wage
Researchers with the Rutgers University Workplace Justice Lab say that since 2005 — when Nevada’s minimum hourly wage was $5.15 — underpayment has cost workers in the Silver State an estimated $122 million annually. Although Nevada’s minimum wage has more than doubled over the past two decades, roughly 40,000 Nevadans each year still make less…
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One Nevada lawmaker’s plan to protect school kids from ICE raids
AB 217 would make it a misdemeanor for school employees to assist ICE or give them access to school grounds.
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Cortez Masto reintroduces bill to improve access to behavioral health and substance use disorder treatments
Nevada’s senior US Senator says the COMPLETE Care Act would allow primary care clinics to hire mental health professionals — a model that experts note can help doctors identify and treat mental health and substance use disorders before someone reaches a crisis. Nevada Democratic US Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto on Tuesday reintroduced new, bipartisan legislation…
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¿Por qué adelantamos el reloj una hora en marzo y en qué fecha toca el cambio de hora este año?
El horario de verano (conocido como Daylight Saving Time, en inglés) inicia cada segundo domingo de marzo y termina el primer domingo de noviembre de cada año.
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Why are clocks set forward in the spring? Thank wars, confusion and a hunger for sunlight
By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press Once again, most Americans will set their clocks forward by one hour this weekend, losing perhaps a bit of sleep but gaining more glorious sunlight in the evenings as the days warm into summer. Where did this all come from, though? How we came to move the clock forward in…
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Opinion: We should protect Nevada’s clean energy future
Across Nevada, new clean energy projects have already spurred $15.5 billion in investment from businesses, the eighth-highest in the nation, and created or moved forward 21,703 good-paying clean energy jobs, the sixth-most in the country.
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Discurso de Donald Trump en el Congreso: chequeo en español y resumen de falsedades, afirmaciones sin contexto y verdades
El presidente Donald Trump divulgó varias desinformaciones en su discurso ante el Congreso. El mandatario dio cifras erróneas sobre el autismo e indicó falsamente que México y Canadá han permitido que el fentanilo ingrese a EE. UU. “en niveles nunca antes vistos”.
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Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo
“What’s going to happen is VA’s not going to perform as well for veterans, and veterans are going to get harmed,” said Michael Missal, who was the VA’s inspector general for nine years until he was fired last month by Donald Trump.
