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Why longtime labor ally Dina Titus quietly helped kill efforts to unionize her office, ex-staff say

6 days ago | thenevadaindependent.com | Gabby Birenbaum

Former staffers of the dean of the Nevada congressional delegation said Titus created a toxic work environment and, they believe, violated federal ethics law. In 2022, when the House of Representatives changed its rules to permit congressional staff to unionize, Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) announced her full support for the effort.
OPINION: Las Vegas doper games is stupid, but a reminder that times haven’t changed much

6 days ago | thenevadaindependent.com | John L. Smith |JOhn Smith

Las Vegas is ballyhooed as America’s new big league sports mecca these days, but it’s good to see it hasn’t lost its trashy side. In addition to the NHL’s Golden Knights, NFL’s Raiders, and eventually even the American League’s A’s, Resorts World Las Vegas is scheduled to provide the glitzy backdrop for the inaugural Enhanced Games, a chemistry-fueled athletic competition planned for Memorial Day weekend in 2026.
So long, Nevada: Reflecting on time, issues and lessons learned at The Indy

1 week ago | thenevadaindependent.com | Gabby Birenbaum

In this edition of D.C. Download, reporter and newsletter author Gabby Birenbaum shares memories of her time at The Indy and some of her favorite stories. D.C. Download ⬇️ | This is The Nevada Independent’s weekly newsletter about the federal government and Congress. Sign up here to receive D.C. Download directly.
Political violence, threaded through recent history, raises concerns among Nevada electeds

1 week ago | thenevadaindependent.com | Isabella Aldrete

Nevada lawmakers, who don’t have security details, say they’re looking into taking additional precautions in the current political environment. The assassination of a Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and the shooting of another lawmaker and his wife at their homes are just the latest addition to a long and unsettling roll call of political violence in the United States.
Nevada Supreme Court rules in Lombardo’s favor over ethics commission dispute

1 week ago | thenevadaindependent.com | Eric Neugeboren

A lower court quashed Lombardo’s effort to dismiss ethics sanctions because of a technicality, but the state’s highest court said that litigation must continue. The Nevada Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously ruled in favor of Gov. Joe Lombardo’s effort to dismiss sanctions imposed by the state’s ethics commission, sending the case back to a lower court.
A guide to what the Juneteenth holiday is and how to celebrate it in Nevada

1 week ago | thenevadaindependent.com | Isabella Aldrete

Events across the state mark Nevada’s newest holiday, which was codified as a formal day off in 2023. It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining "June" and "nineteenth" — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries.
Directora del Aeropuerto Reid se retira en medio de iniciativas de expansión

1 week ago | thenevadaindependent.com | Howard Stutz

A medida que el Condado Clark inicia una expansión y modernización multi billonaria del séptimo aeropuerto más transitado de América del Norte, avanzará con nuevo liderazgo en el Departamento de Aviación. Rosemary Vassiliadis, quien ha supervisado el Aeropuerto Internacional Harry Reid desde 2013, anunció el lunes que planea jubilarse en septiembre como directora del departamento. El condado informó que estaba "trabajando en los siguientes pasos para cubrir el puesto de la dirección".
Departing Gaming Control Board chairman called ‘strong leader,’ morale booster

1 week ago | thenevadaindependent.com | Howard Stutz

I first met Kirk Hendrick in 1986. I was covering education for the Las Vegas Sun, and he was the incoming student body president at UNLV. I wrote a profile on him almost 40 years ago. His mother had saved a copy of that article, which he showed when I interviewed him for this 2023 piece. Kirk Hendrick didn’t waste time after Gov. Joe Lombardo appointed him chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board in January 2023 to resolve several matters that had been plaguing the board.
How the Senate's 'big, beautiful bill' will affect Nevada

1 week ago | thenevadaindependent.com | Gabby Birenbaum

Medicaid cuts could be deeper, ‘“no tax on tips” is less expansive and the SNAP cut could be less harsh. Senate committees have released their portions of a Republican megabill that could have major implications for Nevada, offering tweaks that are somewhat more favorable to the state on clean energy tax credits and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program but harsher on Medicaid and no tax on tips.
We caught Nevada sharing personal health data with Big Tech

1 week ago | thenevadaindependent.com | Riley Snyder

This story was originally published by The Markup, now a part of CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletter. State-run health care websites around the country, meant to provide a simple way to shop for insurance, have been quietly sending visitors’ sensitive health information to Google and social media companies, The Markup and CalMatters found.