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State Plan To Protect Workers From Extreme Heat Gets Pushback From Industry
When workers die in extreme heat, it’s rarely because employers have ignored workplace heat standards. It’s because there are none.

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When workers die in extreme heat, it’s rarely because employers have ignored workplace heat standards. It’s because there are none.

A “small delivery” of free at-home COVID tests have arrived in Nevada and will be distributed in Ely in the next few days.
Medicare beneficiaries will be able to get up to eight over-the-counter COVID-19 tests per month at no cost.
In Nevada, Lombardo was for defunding the police before he was against it.
Southern Nevada is underperforming when it comes to providing internet access and affordable rates to residents.
Nevada’s never-implemented educational voucher program may be getting a second chance at life.
“The Constitution says, ‘advise and consent, and I’m serious when I say that I want the advice of the Senate as well as the consent.”
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A pair of proposed ballot measures seeks to undo voting laws implemented by Nevada Democrats in recent years.
“Addressing costs is certainly an important thing, but we’re doing it while the world around us is moving in chaos.”
The City of Las Vegas will “show Nevadas how cities can support education.”
“We believe the individuals have information about how these so-called alternate electors met and who was behind that scheme.”
Supreme Court nominees in recent years have whipped up the passions of so-called “conservatives” and other voters on the right.
Judge Ketanji Brown was vetted by the Obama administration in 2016 as a potential nominee to the Supreme Court.
Popular food assistance program for kids will resume for the summer.
Virtual town hall discusses need to boost focus on underserved communities.
Democratic state Sen. Dina Neal is hoping that context will help frame a discussion on “modernizing” Nevada’s tax revenue structure.
The decision by the 83-year-old justice would give President Joe Biden his first chance to nominate a member of the Supreme Court.
The expanded child tax credit might be gone but a recent study shows the need for the money hasn’t faded.