Lawmakers were hesitant to pass the measure, even though they solicited the reports that suggested closing a $2.7 billion gap between current funding levels and national average funding target.

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Her opposition within the privacy of her office was so stringent — holding a “retaliat[ory]” staff meeting where she promised to impose stricter rules on office operations all while members’ requests went unmet — that staff members abandoned their unionization efforts entirely by the end of the year.

Lawmakers across Nevada condemned the Minnesota attack. In a statement to The Nevada Independent, Gov. Joe Lombardo’s office said that “political violence of any kind is despicable” and called it a “senseless tragedy.”

The high court’s Wednesday ruling does not absolve Lombardo of wrongdoing, but it opens the door for a dismissal of the case down the line.

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Changes could still come in the Senate version — moderate members of the caucus have expressed concerns about the Medicaid cuts, while hard-liners worry that the size of spending cuts are insufficient.

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Rosemary Vassiliadis announces plans to retire in September after leading the nation’s seventh-busiest airport since 2013.

Hospitals in rural areas would collectively lose more than $1.8 billion with a 15 percent cut to Medicaid. That loss in revenue is roughly equivalent to 21,000 full-time hospital employees’ salaries.

The final hours of the legislative session may have been the killing blow to the bill, but that isn’t the full explanation.

Mike Lee, who has long eyed public lands sales as a way to accommodate growth in the West and opposed new conservation efforts, has taken a new tack with public lands sales.

The proposal was part of an apparent deal that would have brought voter ID to Nevada next year in exchange for increasing ballot drop boxes before Election Day.

In his first vote against the Trump administration since the president retook office, Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) opposed the White House’s multibillion dollar rescission request Thursday over his support of public radio.

The Nevada Board of Examiners signed off on the payment Tuesday after a Washoe County judge in April held the state in contempt for failing to provide timely treatment to criminal defendants deemed mentally unfit to stand trial.

A seemingly straightforward resolution introduced by Assm. Sandra Jauregui (D-Las Vegas) failed to advance out of the Legislature thanks to a confluence of factors most notably including Rep. Mark Amodei’s (R-NV) failed last-minute federal amendment to sell off hundreds of thousands of acres of public land in Nevada as part of the Republicans’ budget reconciliation package.

State treasurer says “dramatic adjustments” are needed to ensure sustainability for the scholarship program that helps thousands of Nevada students.

Ways & Means Republicans project that if the TCJA was allowed to expire, the average Nevada taxpayer would see their taxes rise 23 percent.

The Trump administration has rescinded its final approval for Nevada to use its nearly half-billion-dollar broadband award, further delaying the state’s plan to achieve universal high-speed internet and speed up internet service for areas, including rural ones, plagued by slow connections.

Sources close to the Senate Democratic Caucus said that caucus leaders offered to hold a quick special session to pass the bill, but the governor declined.