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Nevada State Assembly has passed a bill that would abolish the state’s death penalty and resentence the prisoners currently on its death row to life without parole. It was the first time any death-penalty abolition bill had been reported out of committee and considered by either house of the Nevada legislature.
AB 395
passed the Assembly on April 13, 2021 by a vote of 26-16, with all Democrats supporting the measure and all Republicans opposing it. The bill advances to the state senate, where it faces uncertain prospects. SB 228, a less expansive bill that would have repealed the death penalty for future offenses but left it in place the death sentences of those already on death row, failed when the Senate Judiciary Committee took no action on it before the deadline for committee passage during the 2021 legislative session.
A bill forcing large hotels and casinos to offer laid off employees their jobs back before others was given a waiver after failing to overcome a bill passage deadline.
Editor s note: This is Part 1 in a three part series by the Reno Gazette Journal exploring the unprecedented pitch to lawmakers to allow tech companies to form their own governments in Nevada. On Tuesday, read about how the proposal has set two colorful powerbrokers at odds for control of Storey County. On Wednesday, you ll finally learn the backstory of the man behind the entire enterprise. This kind of journalism takes time and resources. To read the entire series, please consider subscribing.
Back in September, Jeff Berns, the CEO of Blockchains Inc., introduced Gov. Steve Sisolak to a big idea a proposed 35,000-person, Blockchains-owned “smart city,” complete with its own energy and transportation grid, on 5,000 acres of mountainous desert in Storey County.
March 8th, 2021
As in most election years, no single group of political donors was a bigger booster for legislative Democrats than labor unions, which shelled out more than $1 million on legislative campaigns in 2020, of which roughly 94 percent went to Democrats.
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Still, it was a sharp drop in contributions from labor groups, which doled out nearly $1.4 million during the 2018 midterm elections and almost $1.7 million in 2016.
In order to assess broad trends in campaign spending,
The Nevada Independent categorized and analyzed more than 7,700 contributions of more than $200 made to sitting Nevada lawmakers in 2019 and 2020.
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These contributions capture nearly all campaign spending in the two-year cycle, and more broadly show to whom the largest contributions flowed and how much those contributions were worth in the aggregate.