Naoka Foreman

Nevada

Community Reporter at News From the Margin

Nevada Political Correspondent at Courier

award🥇winning journalista | founder of News, From the Margin | Nevada political correspondent at @CourierNewsroom - The Nevadan

Articles

Nevada’s Governor rejects record number of bills, again

2 weeks ago | thenevadannews.com | Naoka Foreman

Surpassing his record-breaking actions of 75 vetoes during the 2023 Legislature, Gov. Joe Lombardo has issued 76 this session, including one that would cap rent increases at 5% for seniors and another that would hold individuals liable for discriminatory housing practices under a proposed state law.
Here’s where major bills stand at the end of Nevada’s legislative session

3 weeks ago | thenevadannews.com | Naoka Foreman

As the clock ran out on Nevada’s 120-day legislative session, high-profile measures like a film tax credit and Assembly Bill 238, which would have introduced $1.4 billion in public subsidies to help fund a film studio in Summerlin, were left on the legislature’s cutting room floor, collapsing in the final hours. But a controversial voter ID bill that nonprofit leaders deplored still stands. Introduced by Democratic Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager in the hopes of reaching a compromise with Gov.
Rural Nevada Constituents Backed Trump. His Reforms Could Hit Them Hardest

1 month ago | thenevadannews.com | Naoka Foreman

Though House Republicans voted just last week on a budget proposal that shrinks safety-net programs, rural towns like Pahrump, Nevada, have already experienced federal services disappear.
Trump’s first 100 days in office have left these Nevadans ‘frightened’

2 months ago | thenevadannews.com | Naoka Foreman

During and after his victorious campaign for president last year, Donald Trump vowed to make America great again, boost the economy, and lower prices.
Vegas immigration attorney says Trump administration 'does not respect the rule of law'

2 months ago | thenevadannews.com | Naoka Foreman

A Las Vegas immigration attorney says the White House’s deportation actions circumvent due process, violating the Constitution and threatening the authority of federal and district court judges. Hardeep Sull was born in Canada to parents who immigrated from India. She later settled in Las Vegas to practice immigration and international law and launched a firm called Sull and Associates.
Plainclothes ICE agents in Las Vegas? Advocates say don’t panic-prepare.

2 months ago | thenevadannews.com | Naoka Foreman

On the same day that Republican President Donald Trump announced that US citizens suspected of violent crimes could soon join deported immigrants sent from the US to a mega prison in El Salvador, the Nevada Immigration Coalition (NIC) warned of increased ICE activity in Southern Nevada, adding to a chilling moment in modern US history.
Vegas PBS whistleblower alleges workplace retaliation, racism

May 28, 2024 | nevadacurrent.com | Naoka Foreman

A current employee at Vegas PBS has filed a discrimination complaint against the station, saying she’s risking her job because she wants to bring attention to “a culture of retaliation and racism.” Vegas PBS Director of Marketing Terry Chi in September filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Nevada Equal Rights Commission (NERC) alleging systemic racism, retaliation against a whistleblower and workplace mobbing, or collective abuse from managers to...
Inspired by 1940s photo, minister reconnects with Henderson’s first Black family

Feb 27, 2024 | thenevadaindependent.com | Naoka Foreman

The Williams were the first Black family to move into Henderson’s segregated Carver Park housing project during the Great Migration in 1943, and year after year, they are depicted in Black History Month programs in Southern Nevada and state public literature. But that was all of the information historians knew about the Williams family.
Youth, parents call for better learning environments, gun control

Feb 15, 2024 | thenevadaindependent.com | Naoka Foreman

Cassandra Baker, 13, says watching her parents struggle financially and the instability of the economy makes her concerned about her future. She points to school curricula as the source of her worries, fearing that she’s not being educated on topics that will help her understand politics, navigate life and manage money.
Watch live: Nevada Democracy Project listening session on youth issues, elections

Feb 13, 2024 | thenevadaindependent.com | Naoka Foreman

This is the second installment of an initiative launched last fall in partnership with Vegas PBS. February 13th, 2024 at 12:29 PMGun violence. Wars. Tuition costs. Police brutality. These are just a few of the issues on the minds of youth that are likely to be brought up Tuesday night when Nevada Independent reporter Naoka Foreman and Vegas PBS host Amber Dixon engage families and young people at the College of Southern Nevada.