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Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown has criticized government spending. But his former company made millions off federal contracts, records show
The Republican Senate candidate’s former company was awarded $2.7 million in federal contracts from 2020 to May 2022, representing nearly the entirety of its funding. Sam Brown has forged his political persona as a conservative who has railed against large government spending bills, but Brown’s former business took on millions in government contracts while he…
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Nevada students inching up in math and English proficiency, report shows
Nevada still ranks among the bottom 10 states in education nationwide, but a new report shows small wins across the state in test scores and graduation rates.
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El cuidado en el hogar puede ser un trabajo costoso e ingrato. La senadora de Nevada Jacky Rosen está intentando cambiar eso.
El cuidado en el hogar puede ser un trabajo costoso e ingrato. La senadora de Nevada Jacky Rosen está intentando cambiar eso.
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Home caregiving can be expensive, thankless work. Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen is trying to change that.
Rosen is among a group of bipartisan US House and Senate legislators who are pushing to establish a tax credit program that would give caregivers $5,000 to cover out-of-pocket expenses. Las Vegas resident Barb Hartzell is always taking care of others, though it’s not very often that others are looking out for her. A member…
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Pahrump-based utility to receive $80M for solar project through Inflation Reduction Act
The funding will help subsidize the installation of a 37-megawatt solar power generation and storage system that will service the Pahrump and Fish Lake Valley region, officials said. A rural Nevada electric utility company was awarded more than $80 million in federal grant funding last week to aid in the construction and installation of solar…
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State approves Elko charter school tied to controversial ‘classical’ curriculum
The Nevada State Public Charter School on Friday approved the opening of an Elko charter school that plans to use curricula from Hillsdale College, a conservative Christian private college with an outreach program “devoted to the revitalization of public education through the launch and support of classical K-12 charter schools.”
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Trump’s promise of mass deportations could devastate Nevada’s economy. Here’s how.
For a city like Las Vegas, which depends on immigrant labor across several industries, a mass deportation could hinder the local economy in a way similar to the pandemic, one expert said. Jessica Valencia Alvarez might not have been born in Las Vegas, but there’s nowhere else she would rather call home. Alvarez, 37, was…
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Who is Drew Johnson, the Republican challenger to Nevada US Rep. Susie Lee?
Archived social media posts from the longtime conservative policy adviser and think tanker obtained by The Nevadan show Johnson’s libertarian roots. Nevada Republican US House candidate Drew Johnson has dedicated his career to tracking federal spending, so a win in November would be quite the role reversal, putting him partially in charge of the nation’s…
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‘Young people aren’t a monolith,’ but support is mounting for Kamala Harris, Nevada DNC delegate says
Harris resonates much better with younger voters, Young Democrats of Nevada executive director Tanner Hale told The Nevadan, because her demeanor is joyful and her policies are centered around economic justice. As executive director for the Young Democrats of Nevada, Tanner Hale has had his work cut out for him this election. Politicians on both…
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Nevada DNC delegate: Harris and Walz will fight for organized labor
Unions have grown under the Biden-Harris administration, and a Harris-Walz ticket could further those gains, union worker Matt Kimball told The Nevadan. Las Vegas resident Matt Kimball has worked a lot of jobs since first moving to Southern Nevada more than a decade and a half ago. Originally from a Maryland town outside Washington D.C.,…
