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The attorney general has secured an indictment against expelled Assemblyman Steven Brooks for possessing a firearm while being a drug user.
The indictment, obtained through a Clark County grand jury, is associated with his first arrest, when he was found to have a .357 revolver and 41 rounds of ammunition. He was found to be "an unlawful user" of marijuana.
He later was arrested on the day he was expelled in California, where he faces several charges.
Brooks' friend, Las Vegas Couniclman Ricki...
In a new study of the state's buregoning Latino population, economist John Restrepo has compiled some fascinating data on how educated they are, where they live and how much they make.
This is a valuable demographic document, and it is attached here.
When it came to vote on guns today, Nevada’s two senators each reversed previous positions, but in very different ways.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gave an unusually passionate and emotional speech, perhaps unfettered by the Manchin-Toomey amendment’s inevitable defeat, to explain his support for the measure (he would later vote against it as a procedural move to reserve the right to bring it back.). And Sen. Dean Heller provided a grotesque statement to explain his flip-flop,...
Reversing a 1994 position, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in a speech tinged with anger and passion, announced Wednesday he would vote for an assault weapons ban.
UPDATED: Video embedded here, remarks below:
Here are his remarks:
Today the United States Senate will honor the memory of 20 first graders and six of their teachers who were killed last year in Newtown, Connecticut – as well as tens of thousands of others who are killed by guns each year – by voting on a number of measures...
Before Tuesday’s meeting began, Clark County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak sat down with his colleague Tom Collins.
Collins has been antagonistic toward Sisolak for months, excoriating him for taking on unions and sneering that Gov. Brian Sandoval is “more of a Democrat” than the chairman. I get the sense that Sisolak considers Collins a buffoonish but less-than-prickly thorn whose behavior has grown increasingly erratic.
To say there is no love lost would be an understatement; there...
Here are the first-quarter totals for Nevada's four congressional reps:
Joe Heck
Raised: $169,000
Spent: $108,000
COH: $293,000
Mark Amodei
Raised: $25,000
Spent: $43,000
COH: $170,000
Dina Titus
Raised: $88,000
Spent: $62,000
COH: $80,000
Steven Horsford
Raised: $173,000
Spent: $153,000
COH: $31,622
The sun never sets in Carson City, and yet there is so little illumination.
Nearly 13 months to the day that Gov. Brian Sandoval signaled he wanted to spend more than the state’s economic forecasters believed would be available – i.e. making sure so-called tax sunsets would not occur -- his administration presented the actual legislation to lawmakers on Monday.
Call it a tax increase or call it a tax extension – Sandoval has been on both sides of that argument. But during a brief Senate Finance...
After meeting with candidates to replace Steven Brooks, expelled by the Assembly, Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick has written to Clark County commissioners to recommend two of them as possibilites: Tyrone Thompson and Meli Pulido.
Thompson, who works for the county, and Pulido, who used to work for the city of Las Vegas, were among nine candidates who were seeking the appointment, which the commission is scheduled to make Tuesday.
Kirkpatrick wrote (letter attached here) there were "only two...