NV Political

How COVID-19 Year Affected Students From Las Vegas

Miguel Cardona, the Secretary of Education, went to schools in Las Vegas to listen to students discuss the educational setbacks they faced over the pandemic months. Cardona rhetorically told Spring Valley High School students that it has been a rough couple of years for them, and the students concurred. Cardona also made it a point...

Housing Initiative To Benefit 13,000 State Households

As per Governor Steve Sisolak of Nevada, over 13,000 households in the state would gain from the housing initiative that he proposed. The so-called ‘Home Means Nevada’ initiative is worth $500 million in funding thanks to not just direct investments but also other debt financing program types. Sisolak stated that the initiative would establish four...

Is Identification Law Election Protection Or Voter Suppression?

PAC (political action committee) in Nevada proposes an electoral question, which would require natives to show ID at the poll site and scale back the accessibility of voters. Another proposal from We Repair would repeal AB 321, a law that the Nevada State Legislature passed last year and that requires the delivery of mail ballots...

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...

The Funeral Of Harry Reid To Include An Eulogy From Barack Obama

On January 08, 2022, Former President of the US Barack Obama will deliver a eulogy at the funeral of Erstwhile US Senator Harry Reid. The Smith Center for the Performing Arts location in DTLA will host the funeral, where the senator will be commemorated for his contributions to Nevada and the United States of...

Legislators Do Not Support Extending Vaccine Order For Collegegoers

An equal number of Democrats and Republicans voted for and against a legislative proposal to keep requiring the coronavirus vaccine for college students in Nevada. This means that the proposal has been thwarted. The Legislative Commission in Nevada was considering not only one regulation that would keep the mandate for state and community college students...

Las Vegas Starts International Airport Named After Harry Reid

The Las Vegas-based international airport no longer bears the name of erstwhile Senator Pat McCarran. Federal officials, local officials, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak and the Harry Reid family were all present at the ceremony that marked the transition. The Clark County Commission agreed to change the name of McCarran International Airport earlier in 2021 to...

Proposed Maps Could Paint Nevada’s Floating Voter Districts Blue

A recently introduced congressional district map proposes the kinds of changes that are likely to make Nevada’s battleground districts Democratic-leaning to a greater extent in the next ten years. Legislative leaders plan on introducing the map in a special legislative session in Nevada. The map not only separates parts of Nevada’s Democratic district but...