New Stewart Indian School museum reflects on dark history, brings hope for Native communities

The surge of well over 6,000 new voters in Clark County during the first 10 days of January was close to the average amount the county saw in an entire month under the prior system. The increased registrations appear to be because under the new law, people who complete DMV transactions automatically have their voter records updated unless they opt out.

After sending impeachment articles to the Senate, the House last week approved Rep. Susie Lee’s resolution to block a Department of Education rule that would make it more difficult for borrowers cheated by for-profit schools to receive restitution.

Details from the 2019 contribution and expenses reports, due on Jan. 15, detailed how much legislative incumbents and candidates raised over the last calendar year and painted a more hopeful picture for Republicans in several “swing” Assembly races, with a more mixed view in competitive state Senate seats.

Immigrant rights activists are filing a lawsuit against the the City of Las Vegas over its policies of keeping people behind bars for extra time solely on suspicion that they may be in the country illegally. 

The legislation proposes a ban on oil and gas leasing on public land where there is zero to low oil potential. Under the bill, a parcel’s prospects for development would be determined based on a study known as a Reasonably Foreseeable Development Scenario, crafted with a public comment period.

“At the historical conjuncture that we find ourselves, both as a nation and throughout the globe, in which what have been considered democratic societies have been experiencing serious and ongoing challenges to their democratic values, a focus on empowering women and other marginalized groups, is a focus on democracy,” she said.

At the Native American Presidential Forum on Wednesday, Democratic presidential hopeful Tom Steyer accused the Republican Party of “doing everything it can” to take voting rights away from Americans, especially Native Americans. The forum, hosted at UNLV by the voting rights advocacy group Four Directions and Nevada’s tribes, was the second-ever of its kind. Though the first Native forum was hosted in Sioux City, Iowa last summer, organizers wanted to hold another event in a state with a significant Native population and that will be primary a focus for get-out-the-vote efforts in 2020.

Democratic presidential hopeful Tom Steyer came to the Culinary Union Thursday morning with a pitch for a government-run health insurance proposal that would allow union members to stay on their beloved health plans.