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Tuesday, May. 22, 2012 at 9:15 AM
In the wake of the glitzy GSA conference in Las Vegas that refocused attention on wasteful spending, Nevada tourism leaders feared that resort destinations would get a bad rap from the government.
Bad rap or not, several U.S. senators now are...
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by Laura Myers
Thursday, May. 17, 2012 at 3:42 PM
The new chairman of the Nevada Republican Party on Thursday criticized past GOP leaders for focusing more on "personal and political agendas" than on organizing the party.
Chairman Michael McDonald, who was elected to the job four weeks...
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by Steve Tetreault
Thursday, May. 17, 2012 at 8:28 AM
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid added a personal note this morning in a speech calling for the Senate to begin work on a bill to help alleviate shortages of life-saving medications.
When Reid's wife Landra was undergoing chemotherapy for breast...
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by Steve Tetreault
Tuesday, May. 15, 2012 at 12:21 PM
After not commenting last week on same-sex marriage, Republican Rep. Joe Heck reiterated his position during a television appearance on Monday. He's against it.
"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman," Heck said on the...
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by Steve Tetreault
Monday, May. 14, 2012 at 4:04 PM
U.S. Senate leaders are negotiating an agreement to hold a series of votes this week on various budget proposals, including the latest one passed by the House and another one formed by tea party-backed senators.
None are expected to come close to...
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by Ed Vogel
Tuesday, May. 08, 2012 at 9:32 PM
Gov. Brian Sandoval is so serious about residents paying sales taxes on Internet purchases that he remitted 30 cents in sales taxes that he felt were due on a $3.99 set of cuff links he bought on eBay.
The governor, who recently executed an...
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by Steve Tetreault
Monday, May. 07, 2012 at 6:28 PM
A new war of words in the U.S. Senate race was ignited on Monday when Rep. Shelley Berkley introduced two promised pieces of legislation that her opponent, Sen. Dean Heller, wondered were ever going to show up.
As Heller's campaign was teeing up an...
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by Steve Tetreault
Monday, May. 07, 2012 at 4:29 PM
Shelley Berkley, the Las Vegas congresswoman running for U.S. Senate, has unveiled a new television commercial that promotes her role in securing a veterans hospital for Southern Nevada, a facility touted to create "hundreds of jobs" as...
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by Steve Tetreault
Thursday, May. 03, 2012 at 9:43 AM
Rep. Shelley Berkley today unveiled the first television ad of her campaign for U.S. Senate, a one-minute commercial spotlighting her work for Nevada veterans.
The spot features the father of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Justin Bailey, who served in Iraq...
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by Steve Tetreault
Wednesday, May. 02, 2012 at 3:47 PM
Nevada Democrats filed a campaign finance complaint Wednesday charging Republican U.S. House candidate Danny Tarkanian received a $500 illegal contribution and maybe more.
Tarkanian's campaign should not have taken the donation from Haig's Quality...
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by Laura Myers
Monday, Apr. 30, 2012 at 3:53 PM
U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., launched "Latinos for Shelley" Monday at her Las Vegas campaign headquarters as part of her campaign for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev. (Photo by Laura Myers/Las Vegas...
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by Laura Myers
Sunday, Apr. 29, 2012 at 7:45 PM
Republican Danny Tarkanian, in his first TV ad in the race for Nevada's new congressional seat, takes aim at Washington for "not working."
The 30-second spot begins with images of Tarkanian and his father, famed University of Nevada, Las...
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by Steve Tetreault
Wednesday, Apr. 25, 2012 at 8:42 AM
An unusual occurrence, Nevada's senators find themselves on the same side as the Senate begins to take up a bill to reauthorize federal programs that combat domestic violence and sexual assaults.
Democrat Harry Reid and Republican Dean Heller both...
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by Steve Tetreault
Tuesday, Apr. 24, 2012 at 4:28 PM
Sen. Dianne Feinstein unveiled a bill Tuesday that she said takes a first step, though admittedly a small one, to relocate thousands of tons of nuclear waste left in limbo by the cancellation of the Yucca Mountain repository.
The Department of...
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by Steve Tetreault
Monday, Apr. 23, 2012 at 8:54 AM
In the wake of the rabid overspending for the GSA's 2010 Western Regions Conference, the Senate is poised this week to approve new controls on meetings sponsored by federal agencies. But they are not expected to make a lot of noise about it.
An...
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