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Jan 1, 2025 · Metro, FBI probing possible link between Tesla explosion in LV and New Orleans massacre BY: Dana Gentry - January 1, 2025 Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill called the apparently intentional New Year’s Day explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside Pres.-elect Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel an isolated incident, but says law enforcement is investigating any connection with a suspected ...
2024 Voter Guide - Nevada Current
As in previous election cycles, the Nevada Current has deliberately focused mostly on down-ballot and especially non-partisan races. Those contests for judges, school board and the like often get little attention and can be the most puzzling to voters. State legislative races that are covered are those that are competitive, and that will determine control of …
Nevada Economic Forum makes conservative state revenue …
Dec 3, 2024 · Nevada is projecting $12.4 billion in tax revenue over the next two fiscal years — $412 million, or 3.4%, more than what the state is projected to collect for the current biennium. The Economic Forum, a five-member panel of private sector fiscal analysts, on Monday approved the state revenue forecast for the upcoming 2025-27 fiscal […]
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How measles, whooping cough, and worse could roar back on RFK Jr.’s watch BY: Arthur Allen, KFF Health News - December 9, 2024 This article first appeared on KFF Health News. The availability of safe, effective COVID-19 vaccines less than a year into the pandemic marked a high point in the 300-year history of vaccination, seemingly heralding an age of protection against infectious diseases.
End of early in person voting leaves Nevada Democrats with a lot …
Nov 2, 2024 · A little more than three-fourths of Nevada registered voters cast ballots in the last two presidential election cycles – 77% in 2016 and 78% in 2020. A similar turnout this year would mean about two-thirds of Nevadans who will vote have already done so, while at least a half million more will vote either in […]
NV Energy seeks to prematurely recover costs of $4.2 billion ...
Jun 20, 2024 · When NV Energy CEO Doug Cannon pitched Nevada lawmakers in 2021 on Greenlink, a massive transmission line project estimated at the time to cost $2.5 billion, he promised “Nevadans will not be asked to pay for this investment until at least five to six years down the road.”. Now, with the project delayed about a year and estimated at $4.2 billion (not including monthly interest carrying ...
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Dec 19, 2024 · Year-end selections and reflections from the Nevada Current staff BY: Nevada Current Staff - December 27, 2024 Note: As we do near the end of every year, each writer on the staff took a little time to highlight some of their work from the year and say whatever they wanted to …
Nevada Republicans enter Election Day with a 42K vote edge over ...
Nov 5, 2024 · As of Monday night, Republicans had cast 42,238 more votes than Democrats in Nevada. Cumulative totals released by the Nevada Secretary of State’s office showed that of 1,089,092 votes, 37.7% of them had been cast by Republicans, 33.8% by Democrats, and 28.6% by nonpartisan and third party voters. The totals include votes cast in person […]
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April Corbin Girnus is an award-winning journalist who has been with the Nevada Current since its launch in 2018. She has been a beat writer at Las Vegas Sun, a staff writer at LEO Weekly, web editor of Las Vegas Weekly, and a blogger documenting North American bike share systems’ efforts to increase ridership in underserved communities.