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By Humberto Sanchez The Nevada Independent President Donald Trump Monday unveiled his $4.8 trillion fiscal 2021 budget blueprint, which included no funding to build a national nuclear waste repository at […]
Trump Budget Calls for ‘Alternative Solutions’ for Yucca Mountain
Is This You: Greener Trips
For the longest time I thought that where I lived was the only place where people had to travel to do stuff that people who lived in cities could do […]
Vandals Playoff Chances take Hit after Pair of Losses
The Eureka Vandals, on the road for two games last weekend, lost to the Owyhee Braves and fell into fourth place in the 1A East as the result of a […]
Casinos Trying to Block Teacher-Backed Tax Increase
By Scott Sonner RENO — Nevada’s hotel-casino industry wants a judge to halt a petition drive for a ballot initiative backed by the state’s biggest teachers union that would raise […]
Mercury Storage: Nevada Gold Operators sue Department of Energy over Decision to Ship Mercury to Private Texas Facility
By Daniel Rothberg The Nevada Independent In 2008, Congress passed legislation to ban the export of mercury. The legislation, sponsored by then-Sen. Barack Obama, aimed to reduce global emissions of […]
Eureka Girls Fall into Second Place Tie with Owyhee after Loss
Eureka’s Lady Vandals were on the road at Carlin and Owyhee this past weekend and split a pair, winning at Carlin, but losing 37-23 to Owyhee and dropping into a […]
Wrestlers Heading to Regionals on High Note after Duals
Preston Hubbard earned the No. 1 seed to the 2A Regional wrestling tournament this weekend, Feb.7-8 at Pershing County High in Lovelock. The Vandals wrestling team was competing at the […]
Lincoln County may join Suit Against Red Flag Gun Law
Lincoln County Commissioners are considering joining a lawsuit filed by other counties regarding the new red flag gun law that went into effect in Nevada Jan. 1. According to published […]
Is the Equal Rights Amendment Really Worth Implementing?
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford has joined the attorneys general of Virginia and Illinois in filing a lawsuit seeking to force the recognition of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) as […]
In Whom Should we Trust our Future?
A couple of weeks ago at the 50th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, 17-year-old Swedish environmental scold Greta Thunberg for the second year in a row ranted about eminent […]