Nevada Current

2 days ago | nevadacurrent.com | Michael Lyle

In the last few legislative sessions, Nevada has seen reforms to the criminal legal system to ensure certain crimes, such as low-level drug offenses, don’t lead to lengthy sentences. State lawmakers should also consider a process to review the sentences of those who have already been incarcerated for a prolonged period of time, says Democratic Assemblymember Erica Roth.

3 days ago | nevadacurrent.com | Jeniffer Solis

Nevada Environmental Justice Coalition holds press conference on April 8, environmental justice lobby day, at the Nevada Legislature. (Photo: Jeniffer Solis/Nevada Current) As temperatures soared past 100 degrees in early October, Yajaira Rimendes, a 35-year-old former nurse, started to feel faint at a bus stop in North Las Vegas. It was midday and she was on her way to a chemotherapy appointment. She drank her only remaining water, which was already lukewarm, and passed out.

6 days ago | nevadacurrent.com | Hugh Jackson

“If I had my way, I’d take the tax out,” Republican Assemblymember P.K. O’Neill said last month about the state commerce tax paid by Nevada businesses. It’s not a bad idea. The commerce tax was crafted by quasi-governmental fixture, consultant to the publicly subsidized stars, and lobbyist in denial Jeremy Aguero at the request of then-Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval for the 2015 Nevada legislative session.

6 days ago | nevadacurrent.com | Michael Lyle

President Donald Trump’s efforts to carry out mass deportations and detain legal permanent residents and green card recipients has created increased “fear and uncertainty” throughout the state, immigrant groups have told Nevada lawmakers. Two bills proposed this session, which recently passed out of committee, seek to provide a measure of reassurance to anxious families. One would protect students from being taken from school by immigration officials.

1 week ago | nevadacurrent.com | Hugh Jackson

Nevada is the only state in the U.S. with a commercial lithium mine, and it has several other lithium mines in the development process. Putting tariffs on lithium imported from China would seem to create more demand, and a higher price, for lithium mined in Nevada. So why is Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo asking President Donald Trump to remove tariffs on lithium from China? Because Nevada also has hopes of becoming a national hub for manufacturing lithium batteries.