Gov. Steve Sisolak on Wednesday signed into law a bill that paves the way for Nevada to become the second state in the nation to offer state-managed health insurance plans.
Gov. Steve Sisolak on Wednesday signed into law a bill that paves the way for Nevada to become the second state in the nation to offer state-managed health insurance plans. Sisolak signed the measure that seeks to create state-managed health insurance plans by 2026 at a Las Vegas medical center. It passed through the Nevada Legislature on May 30. RELATED |Gov. Sisolak signs three bills to improve women's health, end period poverty.
Extreme Fire Season Expected Across Mountain West
By Madelyn Beck,
All signs are pointing to an extreme fire season across the region this year. The Mountain West is facing a number of water shortages, according to Boise State University professor Moji Sadegh.
“We are down on river flows, we are down on dam storage, we are down on soil moisture. It’s hotter. Everything is converging,” Sadegh said.
Unfortunately, he says the hotter it is, the dryer it gets, and things can deteriorate quickly. In the last few weeks, our region has been drying up rapidly. Now, a whopping 84% of the West is in a drought.
Democratic Party-aligned groups and activists rebuked leaders from their own party Friday after proposals they championed did not make it past a key legislative deadline.
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Her mother, a longtime teacher for the Washoe County School District, was five years into a nine-year battle with ovarian cancer when Bridges was genetically tested for mutations in two genes commonly called BRCA 1 and BRCA 2.
At first Bridges, now 35, didn’t want to know if she carried the mutated gene that meant there was a strong likelihood that, like her mother and grandmother, she would be diagnosed with cancer.
But as she helped her mom in and out of treatment and hospitals, Bridges knew she couldn’t fight like her mom had for so long.