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Selections & Reflections From The Nevada Current Staff On A Year Everyone Hoped Would Go Better
Each writer on the Nevada Current staff highlighted some of their work from the year.
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How The Child Tax Credit Became A Lifeline For Nevadans: ‘It Saved Our Lives'
Families across Nevada have relied on the child tax credit to afford child care, pay rent, buy food and offset rising costs of living.
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Biden Extends Student Loan Repayment Pause Three More Months
Federal student loan repayments has been extended for an additional 90 days, through May 1, 2022.
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The James Webb Space Telescope: How To Send A Giant Telescope To Space – And Why
After another delay, the James Webb Space Telescope is now scheduled to head to space on Dec. 25, 2021 – weather permitting.
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Federal Law Still Treats Marijuana As An Illegal Drug, Creating Headaches For States
Most states in the U.S. are in violation of a major federal drug statute.
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Congressional Democrats Press White House On Student Debt Relief As Deadline Nears
The Department of Education has not been directed to continue the pause on student loan repayments, which ends on Jan. 31.
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Biden Slams COVID-19 Vaccine ‘Lies,' Announces Free At-Home Tests
President Biden announced new federal help as the nation grapples with a rising number of cases.
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NV Has 2nd Highest Unemployment Rate In U.S. Despite 2nd Highest Employment Growth
Nevada was among the hardest hit by the pandemic, and its recovery, as anticipated, is a long hard slog.
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Horsford Calls On Senate To Work Through Holiday And Pass Voting Rights Bill
Declares BBB isn’t dead.
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Schumer Vows U.S. Senate Action On Voting Rights And Social Policy, As Manchin Rift Deepens
The Senate would vote in early January on a new version of President Joe Biden’s $1.85 trillion social spending and climate bill.
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Tribe Sues To Protect Sacred Hot Springs, Rare Desert Toad's Habitat
The suit claims the Bureau of Land Management violated several federal laws when they approved the Dixie Meadows geothermal energy project.
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Why Spending $2 Trillion Over Ten Years Won't Make Inflation Worse
As an economist, I believe these concerns are likely overblown. Here’s why.
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Only In District 1
Dina Titus, the Democrat who represents Nevada's first congressional district, deliberately deployed “the F bomb” .
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Nevada Poll Shows Voter Support For Immigration Reform, Including Pathway To Citizenship
Those voters say they support earned pathways to citizenship for dreamers, essential workers and migrants who fled war or natural disaster.
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Sisolak Chose Burkhead As Lt. Gov. To Turn Around Schools
Victories by Gov. Sisolak and the new lieutenant governor in 2022 would give Lisa Cano Burkhead an advantage.
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Rent Is Rising Faster In NV Than Almost Anywhere Else In US, Listing Site Finds
The Nevada Realtors Association stated that the state lacks rental control laws, meaning that landlords were free to “raise the roof.”
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Titus Unloads On Fellow Nevada Democrats, Says They Botched Redistricting
Congresswoman warns of difficult election year after lawmakers created ‘three, competitive, risky districts’
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Still Calling To Ignore The Parliamentarian
Our elected officials need to show the same courage that Nevada’s immigrants have shown as they faced the pandemic without relief.
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Biden's Big Social Spending Bill Caught In Snags In The Senate
At risk is a temporary expansion of the child tax credit, the last payment of which was made Wednesday.
