CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) Nevada state lawmakers are bound by a state constitutional requirement to approve revenue-generating decisions with two-thirds majority votes, the state Supreme Court decided Thursday.
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SASKATOON Thirteen years of classes, homework, grades, and tests are coming to an end for high school students around Saskatoon. Despite a pandemic slowing things down, graduation will still be taking place. For many, graduation will be taking place digitally, like at Marion Graham Collegiate and St. Joseph High School, with recorded videos of students walking across the stage to receive their diploma. St. Joseph valedictorian Rachel Rawlyk said she is nervous to be giving her speech, but having to do it in front of a camera instead of a crowd of hundreds makes things a bit easier. Rachel said that students have been adapting to the change in their education due to the pandemic and a virtual graduation wont stop them from enjoying their moment.
Attorneys defend tax extensions before Nevada Supreme Court
SAM METZ, AP / Report for America
May 3, 2021
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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) The Nevada Supreme Court weighed arguments Monday in a lawsuit filed by Republican lawmakers over how to interpret state law that requires revenue-generating proposals to win two-thirds approval in the Legislature to become law.
Since 1996, the Nevada constitution has mandated that two-thirds of lawmakers in both chambers must approve any proposal that “creates, generates, or increases any public revenue in any form, setting a high bar for any proposal to raise taxes without bipartisan support.
Republican state senators allege that the Legislature s 2019 decision to extend two expiring revenue streams a Department of Motor Vehicles $1 transaction fee and a payroll tax violated the mandate because the extensions passed with simple majorities in the Democratic-controlled Legislature and didn t receive two-thirds approval.
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When even a liberal Democratic congressional district rejects divisive, leftist culture wars, it may be evidence that the Democratic Party should move back toward the center.
Or maybe not. Sometimes a local race is just local.
National pundits paid little attention, but the arguably less “progressive” of two Democratic candidates won an April 24 runoff for the southern Louisiana congressional seat vacated by former U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond, who took a job in the Biden White House. State Sen. Troy Carter defeated state Sen. Karen Peterson, 55% to 45%, despite being massively outspent by left-wing activist groups such as the pro-abortion EMILY’s List, which backed Peterson with a $1.8 million outlay. Peterson also touted endorsements from national left-wingers such as U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.