All attention is on Iowa and New Hampshire right now, so there has been a lull in presidential campaigning in Nevada. But Hillary Clinton’s campaign announced a new TV spot http://www.hillaryclinton.com/video/93.aspx this morning, and when it airs on Monday, it will be the first Democratic campaign ad to mention a Nevada issue.
Sen. Barack Obama […]

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Less than five weeks before the Nevada caucuses, the question keeps coming: What is a caucus?
In short, it’s a neighborhood gathering where you and your neighbors will determine the level of support in your community for the various presidential candidates. Candidates, in turn, will be awarded delegates based on that level of support. Sounds simple, […]

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WASHINGTON — The coal plants proposed for White Pine County dodged a bullet Monday.
A provision sought by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to tighten air quality regulations in nearby Great Basin National Park was excluded from a final year-end bill going through Congress. Instead, Congress called for a study of the issue.
But Reid made his […]

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WASHINGTON— It’s not officially dead, but Yucca Mountain is facing a devastating funding cut in the new spending bill out this morning — a significant blow that the project director has said could cause him to miss the project’s crucial 2008 deadline.
Earlier this year I wrote about how we would know when the nuclear waste […]

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State budget cuts are coming to previously exempted departments, including K-12 and corrections, Gov. Jim Gibbons is announcing today. In exchange, other departments that had braced for 8 percent budget cuts will now “only” be shaved 4.5 percent. (See Gibbons’ budget proposal.)
There were problems with cutting budgets by 8 percent, Gibbons discovered — especially for […]

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WASHINGTON — What better way to share the holiday spirit between Nevada’s two senators than with a little humor over an issue that is now dividing the state?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has vowed to stop new coal plants proposed for Nevada. Republican Sen. John Ensign has vowed to do all he can to trip […]

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WASHINGTON — Yucca Mountain news keeps coming this week.
The White House announced late Tuesday it was nominating Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s former nuclear energy advisor for another term on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Gregory B. Jaczko was first appointed to the commission for a partial term that expires next year. If confirmed by the Senate […]

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Budget cuts of the magnitude suggested by the governor could force layoffs at the College of Southern Nevada, Interim President Michael Richards told the Board of Regents today.
Helen Clougherty, CSN’s spokeswoman, wouldn’t speculate what types of positions would be considered for layoffs.
Many state employees and other government employees who depend on state funding have been […]

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The embattled Joe Enge resigned this morning as deputy director of the state Office of Energy, after a flurry of criticisms that he was not qualified for the job.
“My understanding is that it was his decision,” said Mellisa Subbotin, press secretary for Gov. Jim Gibbons. The governor did not seek Enge’s resignation, she added.
News that […]

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The new second-in-command of state’s energy office admits he has no experience in energy policy.
Joe Enge, a Carson City School board trustee and conservative writer on education issues, was hired Nov. 12 to be the department’s deputy director.
Enge is a former high school history teacher and was an analyst and researcher on education issues for […]

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