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Lombardo says traditional education is not working. His answer? Expand school choice.

Though Gov. Joe Lombardo has taken small steps to provide more schooling options for students, he said he considered it a disappointment he hasn’t been able to do more.

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Nevada’s carbon emission reduction efforts are plateauing. Now EPA says they don’t matter

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump’s administration made one of its most drastic moves yet by repealing a nearly 20-year-old rule that allows the federal government to limit greenhouse gas pollution while in Nevada, the state's division of environmental protection found that transportation drives nearly 40 percent of its emissions and that unless more aggressive state and federal policies are adopted, transportation emissions will not decrease.