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By Ryan Tarinelli Associated Press CARSON CITY — Nevada’s legal brothels are holdovers from the state’s Wild West past that draw customers and the curious to the rural areas where they are scattered. Though long tolerated in a live-and-let-live state, one lawmaker is preparing to revive an old fight to end the legal brothel industry. […]
Nevada lawmaker set to revive brothel ban debate
Nevada lawmakers hear arguments on assisted suicide bill
By Ryan Tarinelli Associated Press CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers are once again considering legislation to allow terminal patients to kill themselves with medication prescribed by a doctor. Republican lawmakers on Monday raised questions over patient safeguards and patient competency and coercion, among other specifics in the Democrat-backed legislation. The measure, heard at a packed […]
Barrick goes after Newmont to create $42 billion gold giant
Associated Press Barrick Gold will try to acquire Newmont Mining Corp. in an approximately $18 billion all-stock deal that would create a mining behemoth worth about $42 billion. Colorado’s Newmont has rejected any talk of a buyout from the Canadian miner so far and the unsolicited bid from its fierce rival appears likely to become […]
Colorado plane lost radio contact before crash in Nevada
Associated Press ELY — Air traffic controllers lost contact with a small plane in bad weather before it crashed in eastern Nevada this month, killing a Colorado couple. The National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary accident report Wednesday the pilot, 72-year-old Phillip Bethell of Moffett County, Colorado, was headed from Craig, Colorado to […]
Court ruling will curb asset forfeiture abuses
The U.S. Supreme Court has finally brought the hammer down on the abusive law enforcement practice of civil asset forfeitures — seizing of cars, money and property simply because it might have some tenuous link to some alleged crime. The court has unanimously ruled that such seizures can violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition against excessive […]
Legislation targets severity of domestic violence in Nevada’s rural communities
By Senator Catherine Cortez Masto Since my time as Attorney General, protecting survivors of domestic violence and keeping our communities safe has always been one of my top priorities. I’ve worked with advocates, providers, agencies and local leaders across the Silver State to help domestic violence survivors receive the services and treatment they need, and […]
National Popular Vote bill would dilute Nevada vote
Democratic lawmakers in Carson City are at it again, bound and determined to give your presidential ballots to the voters of California and New York. Two years ago — after Donald Trump won the Electoral College vote by 304 to 227, though Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 2.9 million individual votes — a […]
Amtrak service unlikely to resume soon due to Sierra storm
Associated Press RENO — Amtrak passenger train service between Reno and Sacramento, California, is unlikely to resume until at least Friday because of a lingering winter storm that sent an avalanche across the Union Pacific tracks in the Sierra Nevada, railway officials said Wednesday. Service on Amtrak’s California Zephyr was suspended Tuesday after an avalanche […]
February 21, 2019
Is this You? Trashy But True
It isn’t hard for me to fill a trash bag. It isn’t hard for me to fill several bags. The hard part comes when I try to lift those bags to get them to the trash in one piece! Okay I admit it—I am woman–see me stuff the bag, box, bin, or can so full […]