Carson City – Governor Jim Gibbons received official notification today that Nevada will receive $83.1 million in one-time federal funding for the 2010-2011 school year. The funding is part of the “Edujobs” bill passed by Congress and signed into law on August 10, 2010. Application documents were received by the Governor’s Office on Friday, August [...]
Aug 282010
A year-long advertising campaign that strategically focused on the most lucrative travel markets delivered record-breaking results, Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki, Nevada Commission on Tourism (NCOT) chair, announced today. “Our ad campaign reached a carefully targeted group of consumers with the means and desire to travel and convinced them to visit us,” Krolicki said. “In the [...]
Aug 242010
CARSON CITY – Assembly Minority Leader Pete Goicoechea said today Nevada voters should be asked to expand the state sales tax to include food purchases as a way to raise revenue and broaden the tax base. But any such revenue hike should be accompanied by a reduction in the state’s regressive business taxes, he said. [...]
Aug 212010
CARSON CITY – A state lawmaker is having a bill drafted for the 2011 legislative session to make English the official language of Nevada, saying his intent is to unify rather than divide the state’s diverse residents. Assemblyman Lynn Stewart, R-Henderson, said he is still researching the issue, but that his bill will be symbolic [...]
CARSON CITY – Nevada’s worst in the nation 14.3 percent unemployment rate for July does not even begin to tell the real story of the state’s dismal job situation, a state agency reported today. The actual unemployment rate in Nevada through the second quarter of 2010 is 21.5 percent, according to data compiled by the [...]
Angle Campaign Launches New Website to Highlight Harry Reid’s Shameful Treatment of General Petraeus PetraeusApology.com Calls For Reid to Apologize For His Remarks Reno, NV – Today, the Sharron Angle for Senate campaign unveiled a new website detailing Senator Harry Reid’s appalling remarks about General David Petraeus and Senator Reid’s lack of apology afterwards. PetraeusApology.com [...]
Aug 132010
Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce President Matt Crosson said Thursday the Nevada business community will not accept tax increases in the upcoming 2011 legislative session without “meaningful” reforms in a number of areas including taxes, education and public employee benefits. “It is fair to say the business community, led by the Las Vegas Chamber of [...]
Nevada Division of Insurance Joins FTC, State Attorneys General, State Insurance Commissioners in Crack Down on Bogus Medical Discount Plans Carson City, Nev. – Operators who scammed people without health insurance – often the uninsured and/or unemployed – have been targeted by the Nevada Division of Insurance and a federal-state coalition of law enforcement agents [...]
Aug 132010
Governor Jim Gibbons had the following response to Harry Reid’s statement regarding Nevada’s application for Race To The Top education funds: “Once again, Harry Reid has failed Nevada. Reid has never lifted a finger to help us while we applied for these special federal funds for education. Harry Reid was asleep at the switch again [...]
Governor Jim Gibbons today announced the response to the federal government’s motion to dismiss Nevada’s lawsuit against Obamacare has been filed. Lawyers for Nevada, along with state attorneys general and governors of 19 other states today filed a response to the Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss in the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the [...]