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Robert Beadles

Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager, second from left, (D-Las Vegas) and Majority Leader Sandra Jauregui (D-Las Vegas), third from left, inside the Legislature on the final day of the 83rd session in Carson City.

OPINION: Were proposed payment banks a missed opportunity or a dodged bullet for Nevada?

It wasn’t enough to want to do something, though. Lawmakers also needed to find and attract entrepreneurs willing to provide card processing services at lower costs to Nevada’s businesses.

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