Politics
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NV Energy customers, not shareholders, on the hook for employee bonuses
If Southern Nevadans expect better customer service from NV Energy, they’ll have to pay for it. That’s the message from Public Utilities Commissioner Randy Brown, who led the charge to have ratepayers, rather than shareholders, foot the bill for the utility’s employee bonuses.
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Republicans want to use a 150-year-old law to ban abortion nationwide
Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for a second Trump administration, calls for the Justice Department to start enforcing the Comstock Act of 1873. The old law bans the mailing of “anything designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion,” which could include medical instruments.
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Biden demands grocery stores and food brands end ‘price gouging’ and ‘shrinkflation’
Grocery prices have risen by more than 20% since the beginning of the pandemic and in Nevada, grocery prices rose 4.2% from Nov. 2022 to Nov. 2023. In response, President Biden is demanding grocery chains and food brands lower their prices and stop ripping families off.
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Biden policy to help IRS collect up to $851 billion in back taxes from ultra-wealthy
Using funds provided by the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS has already collected more than $520 million from 1,600 millionaires who had unpaid tax bills of more than $250,000. The IRS could collect as much as $851 billion in additional tax revenue over the next decade.
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El superintendente del Distrito Escolar del Condado Clark seguirá en el cargo, por ahora
El controvertido mandato de Jesús F. Jara, superintendente del Distrito Escolar del Condado Clark (CCSD, por sus siglas en inglés), alcanzó un punto álgido el miércoles por la noche, cuando la junta -finalmente- votó por NO aprobar su renuncia, ni pagar el resto de su contrato luego de la protesta pública.
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Trump wins Republican caucuses in Nevada
Trump’s win was a foregone conclusion, after the state Republican Party set up its own caucus as the only race that would count for the purposes of determining the party’s nominee for president.
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Clark County schools’ superintendent will remain after board rejects his resignation–for now
The controversial tenure of Clark County School District Superintendent Jesus Jara reached a fever pitch Wednesday night, as the board ultimately voted to not approve his resignation or pay out the remainder of his contract following public outcry. Jara, who came on to lead the district in 2018 and has been fired and rehired in…
