Nevada's legal brothel system deserves national credit
Oct 18, 2023 · Enhanced safety: The regulated brothel system pioneered by Nevada emphasizes worker, customer and community safety, which is its most crucial advantage. This system enables sex workers to undergo health checks frequently, thereby making sure that they can render their services in a safe manner, while the unregulated sectors continue to …
About Us - The Nevada Independent
Jan 16, 2017 · The Nevada Independent is a statewide, reader-supported, digital-only nonprofit newsroom committed to illuminating the state’s most pressing issues, fostering insightful conversations and holding those in power to account. We tell the story of the Silver State and its people in a timely and nuanced way that promotes civic engagement and empowers Nevadans to improve their communities and ...
Who’s running in 2024? What to know from Nevada’s candidate …
Mar 19, 2024 · The close of Nevada’s nearly two-week-long candidate filing period on Friday marks the official start of campaign season, as the more than 950 candidates who filed prepare for the June 11 primary election.
The Nevada Independent - Your State. Your News. Your Voice.
Mar 4, 2024 · Articles from The Nevada Independent. Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson (D-Las Vegas) on Monday appointed three lawmakers — Democrats Steve Yeager and Sandra Jauregui and Republican Tom Roberts — to serve on an election contest committee to review a complaint submitted by former Republican Assembly candidate Cheryl Arrington.
IGT presence returning to Las Vegas through a $6.2B merger
Feb 29, 2024 · Nearly a decade after slot machine giant International Game Technology (IGT) merged with worldwide lottery conglomerate GTECH, the casino equipment provider will return to its roots in Nevada through a $6.2 billion transaction with Las Vegas-based Everi Holdings.
Indy Explains: Nevada passed the ranked-choice voting, open …
Nov 25, 2022 · Mike Draper, the communications director for Nevada Voters First, an in-state group supporting the measure, said that in the coming two years, the campaign will focus on educating voters about ranked-choice voting, open primaries and other changes proposed by …
Coronavirus in Nevada: Latest COVID-19 case counts, maps and …
In early March, health officials announced that Nevada would be reducing how often it reports COVID-19 data, along with a host of other changes, joining at least 34 states that have made similar moves.. Since then, Nevada has experienced its lowest case incidences in nearly a year, but uncertainty remains about when the next wave of the virus will hit and what navigating the pandemic will look ...
Inside the 3-year strategic plan guiding Nevada Gov. Joe …
Feb 12, 2024 · “The Nevada Way.” It may just sound like a street name — and in fact, it became one last year — but the novel idiom favored by Gov. Joe Lombardo has become symbolic of the Republican governor’s efforts to reroute the course of the Silver State in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and past Democratic control of state government.. The phrase is scattered throughout his administration ...
The early voting blog - The Nevada Independent
Updated, 10:35 AM, 11/3/20. SOS did an update early this AM, bringing in a few hundred rural numbers — these still don't account for mail that came in from Washoe and Clark — so definitely a lag there. But: GOP ballot lead in the rurals is now 45K. Best-case extrapolation for Trump means that his lead there going into today is about 60K — that would have him getting 70 percent of …
Bipartisan opposition to Question 3 mounts, with more …
Oct 4, 2022 · Sixty percent of Republican voters, along with several Republican candidates for federal and statewide offices, oppose implementing open primaries and ranked-choice voting in Nevada’s elections, according to a new Nevada Independent/OH Predictive Insights poll.. Their overwhelming opposition — just 16 percent of Republican likely voters expressed support for the initiative — marks a ...