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The completion of the Nevada portion of the Central Pacific Railroad was celebrated with with the driving of the golden spike near Promontory Point, Utah in May, 1969. This followed an intense year of construction of the Central Pacific Railroad through the mountains and deserts of the Great Basin known as Nevada. Immediately after completion […]
Nevada’s Central Pacific Railroad
Higher Taxes will not Solve Educations Woes
It’s never enough. Despite lawmakers funding 3 percent teacher raises in this year’s legislative session and lawmakers increasing taxes by $750 million a year in 2015 to fund public education, the Clark County teachers’ union is launching a petition campaign that would ask voters statewide to increase taxes by $1 billion a year for public […]
Don’t Despoil Public Lands with Wind and Solar
Nevada Democratic U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen recently announced she is co-sponsoring a piece of legislation titled the Public Land Renewable Energy Development Act of 2019, which is touted as bipartisan legislation to promote the development of renewable energy on public lands — which is the vast majority of the land in Nevada. “Nevada’s public lands […]
ICYMI: The Root – How to Protect Black Moms in America
By U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto Each year in the United States, more black women get sick or die during and after pregnancy than the year before. That’s because America is the only developed country in the world where maternal mortality has actually increased in recent decades. The U.S. maternal mortality rate—defined as the death […]
Around the State
Nevada Crash Kills 2 after Takeoff from Airport near Idaho JACKPOT — Authorities say two people were killed when a light plane crashed and burned after taking off from a small northeastern Nevada airport near the border with Idaho. Elko County sheriff’s Sgt. Nick Czegledi (SEG’-leh-dee) said Saturday the identities of those killed in the […]
November 21, 2019
Decade-Old Legal Battle over Nevada Pipeline Resumes
ELY — A decade-long legal battle over a plan to pump groundwater from eastern Nevada to Las Vegas resumed this week with lawyers on both sides arguing over differing parts of a former state engineer’s decision to block the plan. The Las Vegas Review Journal reports a judge isn’t expected to issue a ruling for […]
US asks Federal Judge to Toss out Nevada Plutonium Lawsuit
By Ken Ritter LAS VEGAS — The federal government wants a judge to reject Nevada’s request for a court order to remove weapons-grade plutonium from a site north of Las Vegas, arguing that officials have already promised that no more will be shipped to the state. In documents filed Friday in U.S. District Court in […]
Heidi Swank to Leave Legislature, Head New Outdoor Recreation Division
By Riley Snyder The Nevada Independent Democratic Assemblywoman Heidi Swank will end her legislative career after being appointed to serve as the inaugural administrator of the state’s new outdoor recreation division. Swank, a four-term legislator who chaired the Natural Resources, Agriculture and Mining committee in the 2017 and 2019 legislative sessions, was announced on Monday […]
Is This You? Memory Lane
Well, look here. The calendar on all our walls reports it’s getting to be that time of the year. When families gather. Food and love are plentiful and the stories come back out of the closets to make for happy times and red faces around tables and televisions in every nook and cranny. The holidays […]