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By Jackie Valley and Joey Lovato The Nevada Independent On a corner lot next to Little League fields, the walls forming a new school have taken root. The onestory building shines bright against the backdrop of Pinyon Juniper-dotted mountains to the east. If construction goes as planned, this will be the new home for 181 […]
A Building Dilemma: Money Hampers a Rural District’s Desire to Retire Century-Old Schools
Vandals Open Season at Wells Tourney
Both the boys and girls teams for Eureka did fine at the Wells Rural Electric pre-season tournament last weekend. The girls, last year’s 1A state runner-up, were 3-1 as did the boys team. Coach Travis Gallagher said of the Lady Vandals their first game at Wells was against the Elko JVs. They lost a close […]
Group Seeks to Block Enactment of Red Flag Gun Law
By Ken Ritter Associated Press LAS VEGAS — A conservative advocacy group wants quick action from a Nevada judge to block a statewide red flag gun law allowing firearms to be taken from people deemed to be a threat to themselves or others. The group NevadansCAN is seeking an injunction against the law that is […]
Things I Have Not Done
Let me start this by saying this is not a “bucket list” piece. This is not a list of things I plan to do in any shape or form. My bucket list changes daily in step with my pocketbook and my fearless meter. No today it hit me that there are things that I have […]
Around the State
West Wendover Man Hit, Killed by Car on I-80 near Wells WELLS — The Nevada Highway Patrol is investigating the death of a pedestrian who was hit by a car in the dark on U.S. Interstate 80 in northeast Nevada near Wells. The patrol identified the victim of Monday night’s accident as 24-year-old Prajedix Flores […]
Nevada Governor Pans Counties’ Request for Area 51 Event Aid
CARSON CITY — Nevada’s governor says the state might not reimburse two rural counties seeking disaster relief aid over “Storm Area 51” events that attracted less-thananticipated crowds in September to remote towns near a formerly topsecret military base. Gov. Steve Sisolak on Tuesday panned requests from Lincoln and Nye counties, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported, […]
Court Should Block Enforcement of Red Flag Law
A citizens’ rights organization has filed a lawsuit in Carson City District Court seeking an injunction to prevent the enforcement of the “Red Flag” provision of a law passed by Nevada lawmakers earlier this year. Under the Red Flag section of the law persons accused of being a potential danger to themselves or others may […]
What Better Time to Rein in Welfare Handouts?
By the caterwauling of the Democratic politicians, you’d think federal bureaucrats were stealing into homes in the middle of the night and snatching food out of the pantries of starving families. The Agriculture Department has announced plans to cut back on the eligibility waivers that states have been liberally granting to increase the number of […]
December 5, 2019
Court Fight Begins Over Redrawing of Voting Districts
By Ken Ritter Associated Press LAS VEGAS — A court battle has begun over a League of Women Voters of Nevada effort to amend the state constitution to have an appointed commission, instead of the state Legislature, redraw congressional and legislative voting districts following the 2020 U.S. Census. League President Sondra Cosgrove predicted Tuesday that […]