DETR: Paying all PUA claimants before determining eligibility could jeopardize unemployment benefits for everyone

Even as dozens of faculty have raised concerns over plans for a hybrid return to campus in a fall semester now just weeks away, a memo last week from UNR President Marc Johnson showed no signs the administration would change its approach.

Trustees fired off question after question Monday night as they sought more answers about the Clark County School District’s proposed reopening plan ahead of a vote later this week.

When someone tests positive for COVID-19, the goal is for the local health district to make contact with them within 24 hours and then contact all of their contacts in the next 24 hours, state health officials have said.

But the more than 5,500 Nevada businesses listed in the disclosure also cover a wide range of industries; health care and hospitals, law firms, churches, schools, nonprofit groups, news organizations and even a strip club and cannabis company. Several mining companies, which did not close during Nevada’s business shutdown, also reported receiving loans.

Gov. Steve Sisolak has released a proposal ahead of a special legislative session slated to begin Wednesday that would slash and shift hundreds of millions of dollars from agency budgets and other programs to close an estimated $1.2 billion shortfall caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Leguen’s ability to communicate in two languages is of particular importance as coronavirus has disproportionately affected Southern Nevada’s Hispanic community. Latinos have been diagnosed with COVID-19 at a far higher rate than any other ethnicity, and more than twice as frequently as whites.

Questions about financial feasibility and whether universities will have in-person classes are shaping college decisions, while fallout from COVID-19 forces admissions departments to offer video tours in lieu of in-person visits, increase their presence on social media sites and suspend test requirements or delay decision deadlines.

To preserve precious water in Nevada water reclamation districts convert wastewater, also known as influent, into usable water for uses including watering landscapes and cooling electrical plants.

In a flurry of activity ahead of the July 4th recess, the Democratic-run House approved legislation on health care and infrastructure even though neither is expected to be considered by the GOP-controlled Senate.

Gov. Steve Sisolak said Friday that more than half of Nevada businesses surveyed Thursday by the state were not complying with a mandatory mask directive, and he threatened stronger action next week if the numbers do not change.

In Nevada’s second most-populated county, two seats on the five-person County Commission are up for grabs in races that will shape how Washoe County approaches planning and development decisions and navigates the fallout from a coronavirus pandemic that has devastated Nevada’s economy.

That’s the message that Governor’s Office of Economic Development Director Michael Brown and Department of Business and Industry Director Terry Reynolds sent to lawmakers in the state’s interim Sunset Subcommittee last week as to what steps, if any, the state can take to improve its occupational board system.

Across the West, projects ranging from new oil rigs to new pipelines trample on and fragment habitat for the Greater sage-grouse, an imperiled bird that has come to symbolize the tension between conservation and development. Although the Trump administration removed rules that require developers to offset — or mitigate — their impacts, Nevada has kept them in place.

Gov. Steve Sisolak announced Wednesday that a special session of the Legislature is planned for July 8 to consider revisions to the devastated state budget.

Laws implementing a wide range of criminal justice reforms, establishing a state board responsible for regulating marijuana and creating a payday loan database finally take effect Wednesday, more than a year after the 2019 legislative session ended.

Protesters can and should prepare for protests by understanding their First Amendment rights to peaceably assemble beforehand, lawyers say. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) provides an outline of protester rights, and professional groups including the Las Vegas Latino Bar Association organized a webinar with four panelists in early June to clarify the details and complexity of protester rights.

The final decision now holds that state-employed law enforcement officers cannot display any “Punisher,” skull type or “symbols of extreme groups” for personnel on duty, but excludes the “thin blue line” and blue-striped American flag from the order.