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Bottom Of Another List: Nevada Gets Least TANF Funding Per Child In U.S.
President- elect Joe Biden has called for an additional $1 billion in funding for the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families.
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Is Now Any Time To Raise The Property Tax?
Lawmakers expected to take up popular caps.
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Biden Rolls Out Massive ‘Rescue Plan’
An additional $1,400, states get money, and lots of help for other things.
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Vaccine Distribution Fraught With Uncertainty
‘We don’t know what we’re going to get for the vaccine the next week’
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Marijuana Is Legal In Nevada, But Illegal Market Is Still Huge, Officials Say
Southern Nevada law enforcement announced in April that they’d made their largest indoor marijuana grow operation bust ever.
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‘Food Pod’ Proposal May Be Derailed By LV City Council
Downtown businesses oppose plan for vacant lot.
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Latino Business Owners Hope For Better Results From New PPP Round
Businesses are getting another round of financial help with the latest spending bill passed by Congress.
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Councilwoman Hopes To Make Pandemic ‘Microschool’ Program Permanent
In August, the City of North Las Vegas launched the Southern Nevada Urban Micro Academy.
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City Pushing Property Owner To Oust Homeless Residents
After LV, NLV and DOT razed one encampment, those displaced relocated to new area.
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Shot In The Arm? 1 In 4 COVID Vaccines Administered In Nevada
Nevada has received 142,525 doses and recorded 34,549 inoculations, or just under 25 percent.
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Capitol Chaos As Pro-Trump Mob Turns Lawless
A mob derailed the typically routine process of Congress certifying the presidential election results on Wednesday.
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UNLV Lauded For Outreach To Students From Under-Resourced Backgrounds
‘Social mobility’ index says school doing an urban university’s key mission right.
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Demand For Food Assistance Strains State Agency
Food insecurity in Nevada has grown, as has the number of people applying for food assistance programs.
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6 In 10 Nevadans With Student Loans Can’t Make Payments, Survey Says
Congressional failure to act in relief bill leaves borrowers in the lurch.
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A Wretched Year: The Nevada Current’s Staff Looks Back On 2020
Each writer on the Nevada Current staff was asked to highlight some of their work from this atrocious year.
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Prelude To A Disaster: From ‘No Confirmed Cases’ To Unprecedented Shutdown
The discussion focused on balancing individual rights with communal protections.
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Prelude To A Disaster: How Nevada Prepared As COVID Descended
It was supposed to be a banner year for Nevada, especially Las Vegas, where the biggest problem was what to do with too much of a good thing
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Nevada Charter Schools Got Millions In PPP Loans
They’re ‘public schools when it is convenient and something else when it’s not,’ NSEA says.
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Unpaid Utility Bills Are Stacking Up, Assistance Programs Will Likely Fall Short
According to NV Energy spokeswoman Jennifer Schuricht, the company isn’t disconnecting services for nonpayment.
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Congress Passes ‘First Step’ In Pandemic Relief With $900B Package
Widely labeled inadequate before it was even passed, Congress cleared the first major COVID-19 relief measure since the spring.