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Nevada businesses that embrace employees with intellectual & developmental disabilities
Here are 6 Nevada businesses committed to hiring people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs)
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Opinion: I’m an OBGYN. Here’s why I’m supporting a constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights in Nevada.
Last month marked the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and with it, almost 50 years of federal protections for the right to abortion. In two short years, we have seen the cruelty, confusion, pain, and heartbreak that has been unleashed across the country. Anti-abortion politicians moved quickly…
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Sen. Jacky Rosen urges colleagues to cut taxes for working families and raise taxes on billionaires
The best way to fund tax programs that support middle- and low-income Americans is through raising taxes for the uber-wealthy, Rosen wrote in a letter to lawmakers crafting a new tax bill to replace an expiring-Trump era law. As a Trump administration-era tax bill that benefited the ultra-wealthy is set to expire next year, Nevada…
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Who is J.D. Vance? Here’s what to know about Trump’s VP pick.
Vance has compared abortion to murder and slavery, has criticized divorce, and has suggested people in “violent” marriages should try to work things out. He’s additionally said he wants to ban pornography, and has blamed a school shooting on “fatherlessness.”
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Nevada Senators Rosen, Cortez Masto support effort to exempt tips from taxes
Nevada has the highest concentration of tipped workers in the nation, and those tips are currently subject to federal taxes. A new bipartisan bill would allow hospitality workers to keep their tips without paying federal income tax on them.
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What to know about Donald Trump’s apparent assassination attempt
The Secret Service shot and killed the would-be assassin, identified as a 20-year-old from a Pittsburgh suburb not far from the campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. One spectator was killed and two others were critically injured.
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Project 2025 would threaten women’s access to emergency contraception
Project 2025 specifically states that certain types of emergency contraception would be excluded from the no cost coverage provided by the Affordable Care Act should it be implemented.
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In ‘dangerous precedent,’ Washoe Commissioners refuse to certify election results
Washoe County Commissioners voted Tuesday to not approve results of two races that had votes recounted, potentially setting “a dangerous precedent for elections in Nevada.” Commissioner Clara Andriola has requested a reconsideration vote for next Tuesday.
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The Las Vegas Locals Guide: The best dispensaries in town
We asked our readers to tell us their favorite Las Vegas dispensaries. Here’s what they said.
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Sen. Cortez Masto’s bill to help restore Lake Tahoe passes Senate
If signed into law by President Joe Biden, the bill would authorize federal officials to use $350 million in unallocated funds for Tahoe restoration projects. Legislation that would extend a program sending federal dollars to support the tourism economy around Lake Tahoe advanced out of the US Senate this week and will be further deliberated…
