Las Vegas, NV — Today, Assemblywoman Kathy McClain officially filed her candidacy for State Senate District 7. McClain’s Assembly District 15 represents the largest group of Democratic primary voters within Senate District 7. Voters in Assembly District 15 have elected McClain to 6 consecutive terms.
McClain defined her campaign for State Senate, “I offer three things over any opponent: proven leadership, acknowledged respect, and real results.”
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Nevada lawmakers expressed concern Wednesday over a decrease in the number of seniors that, due to budget cuts, a state agency can now handle in home care and community programs.
The caseload for such programs now averages about 1,800 per month, down from a projected figure of nearly 2,300 cases that lawmakers approved in 2007, state Aging Services Administrator Carol Sala told a joint Senate-Assembly budget committee.
Lawmakers took a time out Wednesday from the press of state business to honor the Nevadans who have died in the Iraq and Afghan wars.
The caseload for such programs now averages about 1,800 per month, down from a projected figure of nearly 2,300 cases that lawmakers approved in 2007, state Aging Services Administrator Carol Sala told a joint Senate-Assembly budget committee.
http://www.lahontanvalleynews.com/article/20090304/NEWS/903049982/...
Once the economy turns around — whenever that is — Gov. Jim Gibbons will convene a special session of the Legislature to restore funding to the state government and municipalities, his staff said Tuesday:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/feb/18/panel-ponders-pilfered-property-taxes/
Nevada Mining Association President Tim Crowley finds it funny that some state legislators are looking to raise mining taxes to help bail the state out of its worst recession in generations:
Wild horses in Nevada benefited for decades from money from a Californian whom relatives called insane. Those funds finally are being used up, but lawmakers were told Friday that the horses have another deep-pockets benefactor:
Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie, D-Reno, told state forestry officials Friday that closing the Tonopah Conservation Camp would make next summer's wildfires bigger, faster growing and farther away from the crews that fight them:
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20090214/NEWS/902149976/1087/...