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Politicians Criticize Sheriff’s Call To Lift Order For Metro Police

There has been plenty of criticism of Clark County’s Sheriff Joseph Lombardo’s choice to lift a coronavirus vaccination ordinance for new Nashville Metro Police Department staffers. Now pursuing the Republican nomination for Nevada’s Governor, Lombardo faces scrutiny from Democratic Party members and his GOP rivals about his reversal, instituted at Nashville Metro PD last week. A...

Representative Susie Lee Sticks To Her Stance On Reproductive Rights

The Bishop of Las Vegas, George Leo Thomas, criticized Representative Susie Lee of Nevada in a recent Las Vegas Sun column. Despite that, Lee does not waver in her support for reproductive rights for women. In that column on Las Vegas Sun, Thomas asked representative Lee to abstain from the act of receiving communion....

Gubernatorial Candidate Seeks Donald Trump’s Help With TV Spot

In a gubernatorial campaign advertisement, Nevada’s candidate Michele Ann Fiore says that she was among the first officials chosen by election to support Donald Trump for president six years ago. In the ad, Fiore even holds a gun as she says it with a guitar riff playing as background music. Fiore claims that she...

Parties Argue Over Infrastructural Law Attack Advertisement In Nevada

A fight about an attack advertisement points to the potential challenges for both parties as they try to transform the debate about an infrastructural measure into electoral campaign fodder. It happens when there is a year to go for Nevada’s Senate election. KTVN recently agreed to stop the broadcast of a political advertisement after Republican...

What Does Capitol Hill Stalemate Imply For Drug Prices?

With President Biden’s administrational overhaul plan stalling in Congress, there are mounting tensions about what changes could happen for US people at the pharma counter. The ever-changing proposals include tinkering with US tax credits and extensive federal payment system changes. Pressure is mounting to curb costs in the pharmaceutical industry that have been skyrocketing over...

With Broad Vaccination Ordinances, Political Divisions Become Deeper

President Joe Biden made orders that pushed millions of employees to become vaccinated, with an eye on changing a pandemic situation that killed thousands of Americans. The ordinances quickly deepened the political divisions in the US over government power and COVID-19 vaccinations. Some business groups and employers welcomed the mandates, which concern most federal workers...

Biden Government Looks To Preserve DACA Program Beneficiaries

The Joe Biden government plans on publishing a proposal with the expectation of protecting the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. For the uninitiated, DACA has preserved numerous young grown-ups from getting deported as well as let them legally work here in the US. President Joe Biden’s proposal is important considering Senate Parliamentarian...

GOPs Oppose Biden’s Candidate To Lead Bureau of Land Management

Biden's nominee for Bureau of Land Management leader opposed by GOP

Republicans have described Tracy Stone-Manning, the nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management, as an ‘eco-terrorist’ due to her part in an old tree-spiking event in Idaho. Despite that, Democrats are getting ready to push through her nomination for the position in the government agency. The vote about Manning’s nomination establishes a fight between...

Biden Benefitted From Conservative And Moderate Voters: Pew Research

Veteran families and married men might not be the populations that US Democrats thought would take their party to a win in the recent presidential election. Rather, the strength of Joe Biden among conventionally moderate or conservative voters, particularly men, is among the factors in his victory, as per Pew Research data. A simple majority...

Democrats, Turned Into Filibusters, Set To Compel Making Of A Decision

Ten years ago, the US Senate voted on an outlandish bill to let a majority of over 50% of its members break filibusters. When that happened, only some Democratic Party members supported the idea, which sunk in a lopsided senatorial vote. In 2021, most Democratic senators opine that the so-called filibuster rules, requiring 60% of...