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Q&A: Children’s advocate urges state to put surpluses toward early childhood services

Welborn said her work experience has shown how issues, such as children’s behavioral and mental health issues and housing stability, the minimum wage, or providing meals for kids, are interconnected with early childhood and juvenile justice.

Inmates in the yard of a correctional facility.

Families of inmates seek independent ombudsman to handle prisoners’ complaints

Jodi Hocking, founder of the nonprofit inmate advocacy group Return Strong, helped present a bill that would create an Office of the Ombudsman — impartial and independent of the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) — that would manage grievances filed by prisoners that adversely affect the health, safety, welfare and rights of those in custody. The office would be under the administration of the attorney general. 

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VIDEO: Conference celebrates life of Robert Laxalt

During a closing address for a conference celebrating the life and work of Basque-Nevadan author Robert Laxalt, his grandson Gabriel Urza brought out a leather satchel containing notes from his grandfather’s reporting for National Geographic as well as an early manuscript of his book The Governor’s Mansion.

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