39th U.S. president, Jimmy Carter, has died
Peanut farmer, devout Christian and the 39th president of the United States: This is the legacy of President Jimmy Carter.
Former President Jimmy Carter, who is longest-lived American president, has died. He was 100.
Carter was a Georgia governor when he won the 1976 presidency, defeating then-President Gerald R. Ford.
Here are some ties to the Silver State for the 39th president.
When he was 12 years old, Brian Sandoval was with his family in Washington, D.C., and bought a peanut-shaped piggy bank which honored then-President Jimmy Carter, who was a peanut farmer. Forty years later, in 2017 then-Nevada Gov. Sandoval brought it to Reno-Tahoe Airport, and former President Carter signed it for him.
In 2006, Jack Carter was the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Nevada. The oldest child of Jimmy Carter moved to the state in 2002, and won the Democratic nomination with 78% of the vote. He lost the general election to incumbent Republican John Ensign, 55% to 41%.
In 2017, Carter visited the University of Nevada Earthquake Engineering Laboratory.
UNR wrote that while the lab “has had some exciting experiments and distinguished visitors over the years, the most exciting was a visit and tour this year with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.”
“We were proud to host President Carter and his group, the Carter Center; It was a highlight for all of us,” Ahmad Itani, chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department said. “To be able to show off our facility and the world-improving research we conduct was the highest honor.”
Pat Jefferson, a University of Nevada boxing coach, was a 1979 World Amateur Champion in boxing. He would have gone to the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, but Carter and the United States boycotted the games that year due to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan the previous year.
In 1980, he was captain of a U.S. AAU team that went to Russia, where he defeated the Russian national champion.
Jefferson turned pro in 1980 after the American boycott of the Moscow Olympics.
John B. Williams, a Reno High graduate, University of Nevada undergraduate student and Wolf Pack basketball player, was Carter’s commanding officer on the submarine U.S. Pomfret from 1948 to 1950. Williams served as lieutenant commander while Carter, a fellow alumnus of the Naval Academy, was an ensign who rose to the rank of lieutenant while serving under Williams.
After retiring from the Navy, Williams returned to Reno and ended up reuniting with Carter during the future president’s 1976 campaign stop here. Williams was a guest of Carter at Carter’s 1977 inauguration.
A recent Review-Journal letter to the editor mischaracterized Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s Southern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act, also known as the Clark County Lands bill. As the former executive director of the Nevada Conservation League, I wholeheartedly support this legislation, so I wanted to set the record straight.
Sen. Cortez Masto has been working on this bill for years in partnership with state and local governments, conservation groups like the NCL and local area tribes. It’s true that the Clark County lands bill would open 25,000 acres to help Las Vegas grow responsibly, while setting aside 2 million acres for conservation. It would also help create more affordable housing throughout the valley while ensuring our treasured public spaces can be preserved for generations to come.
What is not correct is that the money from these land sales would go to the federal government’s coffers. In fact, the opposite is true.
The 1998 Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act is a landmark bill that identified specific public land for future sale and created a special account ensuring all land sale revenues would come back to Nevada. In accordance with that law 5 percent of revenue from land transfers goes to the state of Nevada for general education purposes, 10 percent goes to the Southern Nevada Water Authority for needed water infrastructure and 85 percent supports conservation and environmental mitigation projects in Southern Nevada. This legislation has provided billions to Clark County and will continue to benefit generations of Southern Nevadans. Sen. Cortez Masto’s lands bill builds upon the act’s success.
So here’s the good news: All of the money generated from land made available for sale under Sen. Cortez Masto’s bill would be sent to the special account created by the 1998 law. Rather than going to an unaccountable federal government, the proceeds would continue to help kids in Vegas get a better education, bolster outdoor recreation and modernize Southern Nevada’s infrastructure.
I know how important it is that money generated from the sale of public land in Nevada stay in the hands of Nevadans, and so does the senator. That’s why she opposed a Republican effort last year to sell off 200,000 acres of land in Clark County and other areas of the country that would have sent those dollars directly to Washington.
Public land management in Nevada should benefit Nevadans. We should protect sacred cultural sites and beloved recreation spaces, responsibly transfer land for affordable housing when needed and ensure our state has the resources it needs to grow sustainably. I will continue working with Sen. Cortez Masto to advocate for legislation, such as the Clark County lands bill, that puts the needs of Nevadans first.
Paul Selberg writes from Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas High’s baseball team claimed a 3-2 home win over Coronado on Friday.
Las Vegas (9-13-1) next hosts Rancho at 10 a.m. Saturday. Coronado (13-14) hosts Chaparral at 3:30 p.m. Monday.
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LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Nevada’s jobless rate is holding steady, but the state is still adding jobs.
A new report from DETR shows February’s unemployment rate unchanged at 5.3 percent, with the labor force growing by nearly 3,800 people.
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Nevada now has about 1.6 million nonfarm jobs, up 2.2 percent over the past year and 1,500 more jobs than in January.
“This month’s report shows a strengthening labor market,” said David Schmidt, Chief Economist. ”Compared to the report for January, the pace of job gains in the past year increased from 1.9% to 2.2%, building on what was already the fastest pace of job growth in the country. While the unemployment rate remained stable, the labor force participation rate rose to 63.7%, 1.7 percentage points higher than the national level.”
In Las Vegas, employment ticked up by 1,100 jobs in February, about 0.1 percent, and is up more than 25,000 jobs compared to last year.
Reno added 1,000 jobs on the month, while Carson City shed about 200 but is still slightly above where it was a year ago.
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