More than a dozen Nevada Republicans are hoping to convince voters that they are congressional material. (Photo: Jeniffer Shutt/States Newsroom) Policy, politics and progressive commentary As Congressional Democrats look to flip the House this election, which Republicans currently control with a razor-thin margin, Nevada’s three Democratic congressional incumbents are running to retain their current seats. A slew of Republican candidates are hoping to take on the three Democrats in the general election. The overwhelming majority of them have previously lost other state and federal offices on ..read more

The right to an abortion is currently protected in Nevada through state law, which voters approved via a 1990 referendum. Changing that law, which mirrors the protections maintained by Roe, would require a direct vote of Nevadans. However, abortion rights are not protected in the state constitution. (Photo by Astrid Riecken/Getty Images) Policy, politics and progressive commentary An initiative petition circulated by Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom, an organization working to enshrine abortion rights in the Nevada Constitution, can proceed, thanks to the Nevada Supreme Court’s affirmation T ..read more

Public lands in the Montana Mountains provide access to the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge in northwest Nevada. (Bureau of Land Management photo) Policy, politics and progressive commentary The Bureau of Land Management will publish a final rule soon allowing the nation’s public lands to be leased for environmental protection, a Thursday news release from the Interior Department said. The rule, which both proponents and detractors say marks a shift in the agency’s focus toward conservation, directs land managers at the agency to identify landscapes in need of restoration and to create plans ..read more

Georgia Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks with reporters on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, April 18, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom) Policy, politics and progressive commentary WASHINGTON — U.S. House Democrats on Thursday began coalescing behind Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan to provide assistance for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan through a series of three bills, though far-right members of his own party grew increasingly frustrated with the Louisianan’s bipartisan streak. Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is leading an effo ..read more

Former judge Abbi Silver (Nevada Appellate Courts/Administrative Office of the Courts photo) Policy, politics and progressive commentary Gov. Joe Lombardo announced Thursday he’s appointing retired Nevada Supreme Court Justice Abbi Silver to the Nevada Gaming Commission. Silver will replace Commissioner Ogonna Brown, whose term ends next week.  “Justice Silver is one of Nevada’s brightest visionaries and trailblazers, and I’m confident that she will greatly enhance the work of the commission in her new role,” Lombardo said in a news release.  Silver, who served four years on the sta ..read more

He was for the waste dump before he was against it. He's also a tad untrustworthy. (Yucca Mountain photo via Department of Energy; Trump photo by Stew Milne for Alabama Reflector) Policy, politics and progressive commentary Some Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives went full-on blast-from-the-past last week, re-upping the idea of putting the nation’s nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. And so at a Senate Energy Committee hearing Tuesday, Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto had U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm confirm yet again that nope, the Biden administra ..read more

NSHE Regent Michelee Cruz-Crawford, left, and state Assemblywoman Clara Thomas. Policy, politics and progressive commentary The Nevada Senate Democratic Caucus endorsed Michelee “Shelly” Cruz-Crawford, a first-term Nevada System of Higher Education Regent, over Assemblywoman Clara Thomas, in the Democratic primary for Senate District 1.  In an interview with Nevada Current, Thomas attributed the party caucus’s decision to back a regent instead of a fellow state legislator to Thomas’s opposition to Democratic-sponsored restorative justice reforms from a previous legislative session that h ..read more

(City of Henderson photo) Policy, politics and progressive commentary An open seat on the Henderson Justice Court has attracted half a dozen attorneys, including several who previously ran for the position, while in another department, a candidate appointed to the bench late last year faces a lone challenger.  Department 1  Six candidates are vying to fill the vacancy in Henderson Justice Court Dept. 1, resulting from the departure of former Justice Sam Bateman, who left to become  the deputy manager of Clark County. The court hears both civil and criminal matters.  “I’ve ..read more

Official Photo of the Swearing In of Senators for the Alejandro Mayorkas impeachment trial in the Senate Chamber, in Washington, DC on April 17, 2024. (Official U.S. Senate photo by Daniel Rios) Policy, politics and progressive commentary WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Wednesday dismissed two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The Democrat-controlled chamber voted, 51-49 along party lines, to adjourn the impeachment trial after finding that the impeachment articles accusing Mayorkas of not complying with federal immigration law and breaching the p ..read more

U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson of Louisiana, center, listens as Rep. Mike McCaul of Texas, left, speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on April 16, 2024 in Washington, D.C. Also pictured is House Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, right. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Policy, politics and progressive commentary WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans unveiled three bills Wednesday that would provide $95 billion overall in assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, instead of voting on a similar bipartisan Senate-approved package that’s been waiting around ..read more