Justice Department decides against prosecuting law-abiding medical marijuana users Attorney General Eric HolderÕs announcement Monday that the Justice Department will not prosecute medical marijuana users, if those people are following state laws where such use is legal, represented a display of compassion ...
What has been the conventional wisdom isnÕt holding up, some analysts say WASHINGTON The authors of the conventional wisdom in politics thought they knew a few things about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reids reelection campaign: Reid will have a war chest stocked ...
When you use water, youÕre also using lots of electricity, most of it generated with fossil fuels, contributing to global warming Southern Nevada has gained a reputation as the future of clean, renewable energy and for its aggressive outdoor water conservation campaigns. ...
Expert says sharp drop in Õ09 land lease sales a Ôleveling outÕ of market When the Bureau of Land Management released results of the 2009 Nevada geothermal energy land lease auction in mid-August, it looked like the industryÕs balloon had burst. A ...
State GOP says senator hasnÕt brought enough pork; national complains of Nevada favoritism WASHINGTON As Republicans ramp up their campaign against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the partys Nevada and Washington operations cant seem to get their stories straight on a line ...
Bills in Congress would take important steps to help ensure worker safety Over the past few years, Nevada has become a poster child of the problems with workplace safety oversight and regulation. During the construction boom on the Las Vegas Strip, for ...
Nevadans could see further erosion in the miserly level of services for years In its recent special session, the Legislature made several budget sleights of hand to ease the magnitude of the cuts it made to close the shortfall of nearly $900 ...
Nevadas congressional delegation is scrambling to try to reverse a 5-month-old change in federal appropriations that is costing some of the states rural counties hundreds of thousands of dollars each month. At issue is the way the federal government divvies up royalty ...
It was a week of emotional highs and lows for Nevada Democrats. They were briefly jubilant last week when Jon Scott Ashjian filed for the U.S. Senate on the Tea Party of Nevada ticket. It seemed as if Sen. Harry Reid, whose ...
NevadaÕs poor spared the worst of budget cuts, as social protections remain largely intact CARSON CITY What was billed at its onset as the biggest fiscal crisis in Nevada history ended with the states social safety net, such as it is, intact. ...
