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.
Mar
2025
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POLITICS
Mar
2025
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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. ...
Mar
2025
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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.
Mar
2025
5
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.
Mar
2025
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Nevada Democrats bring guests who’ll be impacted by Trump’s funding cuts to Congressional address
Nevada Democrats and others from across the US are using Tuesday night’s event to highlight the negative real-world impacts of the Trump administration’s first six weeks in office. Growing up with a number of serious health conditions, Las Vegas teen Dominic Rampa...
Feb
2025
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More than a dozen NPS workers fired from Lake Mead as part of mass federal workforce purge
The positions eliminated include park rangers, engineers, ecologists, maintenance workers, and cultural resource staff for the ninth most-visited area managed by the National Park Service. By Jennifer Solis, Nevada Current More than a dozen federal workers at Lake...
Feb
2025
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Quién es Robert F. Kennedy Jr., el abogado antivacunas confirmado por el Senado como secretario de Salud y Servicios Humanos de Estados Unidos
Tras ganar las elecciones, el presidente electo Donald Trump nombró al activista antivacunas Robert F. Kennedy Jr. como secretario de Salud y Servicios Humanos. El 13 de febrero de 2025, el Senado confirmó a Kennedy Jr. en este cargo con una votación de 52 a 48.
Feb
2025
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Rep. Steven Horsford introduces bill to eliminate taxes on tips, abolish subminimum wage
A new proposal from the Democratic congressman seeks to go beyond Trump’s campaign promise of cutting taxes on tips by also eliminating the subminimum wage, which allows some workers to be paid as low as $2.13 per hour. Amid a national push to eliminate federal...
Feb
2025
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Legisladores de Nevada intentan impedir que ICE entre a las escuelas
Un proyecto de ley en la Legislatura de Nevada haría que los oficiales del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de EE. UU. (ICE) no podrán entrar a las escuelas públicas ni acceder a los registros de los estudiantes sin una orden judicial firmada por un juez.
Feb
2025
19
Nevada lawmakers are trying to protect students from ICE entering schools
A bill in the Nevada Legislature would make it so US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers would not be allowed to enter public schools or access students’ records without a warrant signed by a judge.