A natural disaster preparedness plan focused in Northern Nevada could cost NV Energy customers hundreds of millions of dollars over the next three years, according to testimony filed with the Public Utilities Commission, with customers in the southern part of the state subsidizing improvements on the utility’s property in the north.
Late Monday, in the 11th hour of the 2023 regular legislative session, Senate Republicans blocked a key budget bill, forced a special session, and threatened to hold out “as long as necessary” But just 24 hours later, in a zippy special session that lasted just two hours, an identical budget passed out of the Legislature and is now headed to Gov. Joe Lombardo’s desk.
On the third-to-last day of a 120-day legislative session, Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager (D-Las Vegas) and a small army of lobbyists representing the state’s premier industry asked lawmakers to establish a $100 million fund to support the buildout of a “transformational campus” that offers support to the unhoused or people at risk of homelessness.
One used to go fishing and enjoy the great outdoors. Today Oxford Languages defines “phishing” as the fraudulent practice of sending emails or other messages purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers.
With election season beginning earlier and earlier it has become difficult to tell when one election cycle ends and the next begins. Case in point is the Las Vegas Mayor’s race and although the election isn’t until 2024, we’ve had announced candidates for quite a while.
Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo on Wednesday signed two key budget bills passed by the Democratic-controlled Legislature. The budget bills include the funding for K-12 public education and are two of the five bills that comprise Nevada’s budget.
Nevada’s Consumer Advocate Ernest Figueroa says NV Energy is fudging the percentage of electricity sales it reports from renewable energy sources in an annual report filed with the Public Utilities Commission, and would not meet its requirement if not for accounting practices that will soon be prohibited.
English is the language of computers, diplomacy, science and tourism. Today it is not only important to learn English but it is beneficial to understand acronyms, abbreviations and initialism. Ever wonder what someone means when they say “STAT” or B2B? Let’s remove some of the mystical from today’s English language.
It’s a typical Wednesday afternoon when several police cars pull up and park outside the neighborhood Starbucks. As a general rule one police car is pretty normal and sometimes there might even be two. On this Wednesday there’s three that are noticeable right away and a fourth pops out from behind another row of cars. What’s going on?
