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Nevada lawmakers set to start 120-day legislative session
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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada lawmakers are attributable to convene in Carson Metropolis on Monday to start out 4 months of negotiations, hearings and votes that can outline the state’s funds and operations for the subsequent two years.
The Democratic-controlled Legislature is predicted to spar with newly elected Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo amid efforts to search out frequent floor on a variety of proposals, most notably provisions within the governor’s two-year, $11 billion funds that anticipates beginning with a historic surplus.
Nevada is one in all solely 10 states wherein the identical celebration doesn’t management each the governor’s mansion and the 2 legislative chambers, the bottom quantity since 1952, in keeping with the Nationwide Convention of State Legislatures.
In his State of the State tackle two weeks in the past, Lombardo introduced his targets of suspending the state gasoline tax for a yr, making unprecedented investments in training and utilizing the funds surplus to prioritize fiscal financial savings.
The previous elected head of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division additionally proposed stiffening legal penalties, creating a brand new state workplace to broaden college selection, and lift state worker pay 12% over the subsequent two years. He insisted all of the initiatives could be completed with out new taxes.
The $11.4 billion two-year funds is almost $2.3 billion greater than the expiring funds set in 2021, a product of projected will increase in state tax income, fueled by robust gross sales and gaming tax income that benefited from excessive inflation and robust shopper spending.
That monetary cushion has helped spur Lombardo’s unprecedented $2 billion Okay-12 funds request that features wide-scale investments in public training, together with proposals to extend college selection, which usually refers to utilizing taxpayer-funded packages to assist mother and father pay for different instructional choices together with non-public or constitution colleges, home-schooling or hybrid fashions.
Lombardo has to steadiness college selection initiatives and public college financing within the Democratic-controlled Legislature.
“I obtained to be pragmatic about it,” he acknowledged at a latest Q&A discussion board.
Nevada’s part-time elected lawmakers, 21 state senators and 42 meeting members, convene each two years for a 120-day session. Democrats maintain a majority within the state Senate and supermajority within the state Meeting.
Additionally featured will likely be questions on find out how to diversify Nevada’s largely tourism and casino-based financial system, a shrinking Western regional water provide, federal land battles, and filling the state’s practically 1 in 4 vacant public jobs.
Abortion insurance policies might also take heart stage, even in a state the place the proper to an abortion is codified into legislation by way of 24 weeks attributable to a 1990 referendum vote.
Lombardo had waffled throughout his marketing campaign on whether or not he would uphold an govt order that will shield out-of-state sufferers and in-state suppliers from prosecution and penalties. He first mentioned he would repeal it, earlier than backtracking and saying he would depart it as is. Democratic Senate Majority Chief Nicole Cannizzaro mentioned she would introduce a invoice that will codify the order into state legislation.
The governor has additionally mentioned he needs to considerably revise or repeal a legislation handed by the Democratic-controlled Legislature in 2021 that will create a state-run public medical health insurance possibility by 2026, making Nevada the second state within the nation to move a legislation of its type, behind Washington. He mentioned the implementation was rushed and known as it “political theater.”
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Stern is a corps member for the Related Press/Report for America Statehouse Information Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit nationwide service program that locations journalists in native newsrooms. Observe him on Twitter: @gabestern326.
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Debates don’t tend to have a lasting impact. Could last week’s be different?
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While last week’s debate prompted further concerns about President Joe Biden’s cognitive fitness among pundits and some national Democrats, both Nevada Democrats and Republicans are shying away from the topic on the campaign trail.
Debates and campaign events usually have only temporary effects, according to Dan Lee, a political science professor at UNLV. Polls might change, but the effects dissipate over a couple of weeks, he said. Bigger predictors of election outcomes are partisanship and the state of the economy, he said.
But last week’s debate is different, Lee said. It was not like Biden gave a bad answer; rather, it brought up questions about his ability to be president, he said.
“Debates tend not to have lasting effects, but because this debate was more, you know, highlighting his perceived shortcomings in terms of his cognitive capabilities, that’s kind of something that could stick and what Democrats are worried about,” Lee said.
Voters have long expressed their concerns about both presidential candidates’ ages and ambivalence over the rematch. The debate heightened those concerns. A recent CBS News poll, for instance, found that 72 percent of 1,130 registered voters surveyed — including many Democrats — do not think Biden has the mental and cognitive health to serve as president. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.
Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett became the first Democratic lawmaker to publicly call on Biden to withdraw from the 2024 election. He cited multiple polls showing Biden running substantially behind Democratic senators in key states.
“I had hoped that the debate would provide some momentum to change that,” he said in a statement Tuesday. “It did not. Instead of reassuring voters, the President failed to effectively defend his many accomplishments and expose Trump’s many lies.”
Nevada campaigning to shy away from cognitive concerns
Nevada Democrats, however, are sticking with the president — though Sen. Jacky Rosen and other candidates have been maintaining a distance from the president, who has not polled well in Nevada — and the Nevada Republican Party does not plan to focus on Biden’s health as a top campaign strategy.
The state’s Democrats have been focusing on the actions the Biden administration has taken, from investing in affordable housing and infrastructure and trying to lower health care costs.
Democratic Rep. Dina Titus, who has campaigned for Biden and was named to his re-election advisory board, stands by the president.
“I’ve known him, I’ve supported him, I’ve worked with him for a long time,” Titus said. “And do I wish he’d have been stronger? Of course. Do I wish he’d have called out the lies better? Yes. Do I wish he’d focused on all the good things the Democrats have done under his leadership? Yes. But you’ve got to remember, you can’t just focus on the superficial.”
Instead, you have to focus on the substance, she said.
“You play the hand you’re dealt, and that’s what we’re going to do,” she said. Democrats’ goal is to show Nevadans who Biden really is and what he’s accomplished.
A spokesperson for Sen. Jacky Rosen’s campaign painted the election as a choice between an administration “focused on lowering costs, growing the middle class, and restoring reproductive freedom” and “Trump’s MAGA agenda,” while distancing her from the president.
“Senator Rosen is focused on her own reelection campaign and continuing her track record as one of the most bipartisan, independent, and effective Senators,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
‘Feel sorry’
Nevada GOP Chairman Michael McDonald told the Review-Journal he felt sorry for Biden.
“I know he had a bad night, but I think it’s deeper than that,” he said Monday. “I feel sorry for his family. It’s a major concern of who is running the country right now.”
That said, the Republican Party won’t focus on those cognitive concerns at a state level, said McDonald, who took on the role as senior campaign adviser for the Trump campaign.
Rather, McDonald said, the party will push on Trump’s record of helping working people and will highlight his plans and outlook for the future.
“We’re going to show the difference between the two,” he said.
Contact Jessica Hill at jehill@reviewjournal.com. Follow @jess_hillyeah on X.
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Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada hosting back to school vaccine clinic
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RENO, Nev. (KOLO) – Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada will be hosting a series of back-to-school vaccine clinics in the month of July.
The clinic will be for kids over the age of five, but under the age of 19.
“Our commitment to keeping our clients and their communities healthy includes ensuring everyone has access to health and wellness resources, including vaccines,” said Marie Baxter, CEO of Catholic Charites of Northern Nevada.
The clinics will be held at these locations, dates and times:
- Moana Neighborhood Center – Saturday, July 6 from 10 am to 2 pm at the Moana Neighborhood Center located at 480 E. Moana Lane.
- North Valleys Neighborhood Center – Monday, July 8 from 1 to 4 pm at the North Valleys Neighborhood Center located at 440 E. Golden Valley Road.
- Sun Valley Neighborhood Center – Friday, July 12 from 1 to 4 pm at the Sun Valley Neighborhood Center located at 130 West Gepford Parkway.
- Fernley Boys & Girls Club of Truckee Meadows – Saturday, July 20 from 9 am to 12 pm at the Fernley Boys & Girls Club located at 396 US Highway 95a South, Suite 401.
Qualifying criteria include children ages 5-19 who are eligible for the VFC program if they are uninsured, Medicaid-eligible or Medicaid-enrolled, American Indian or Alaska Native, or underinsured. Parents must be present and, if possible, provide shot record information.
Out-of-state residents must show proof of vaccination to qualify.
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