The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday about one of the few remaining provisions in the Bill of Rights not yet applied to the states: the ban on excessive fines.
Illinois hasn't passed a budget for two years. The state has billions in unpaid bills. Lawmakers finally struck a deal, including a tax increase — but Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner isn't on board.
The court upheld a regulation preventing a Wisconsin family from developing part of their land, denying them government compensation. The decision is a huge win for regulators and environmentalists.
If Washington's NFL team wins its last game before Election Day, the party in the White House wins another term. This has held since 1936. This year, the team's most recent game ended in a tie.
That's right, medical marijuana has gone from being a cottage industry to be
a fully-fledged corporate industry. The national company is offering
franchises to local entrepreneurs who want to get into the medical marijuana
business.
The United States has only 5% of the world's population but it uses
60% of the world's drugs. That number alone is enough to suggest that
we have no chance of winning the war on drugs or so argues Dr.
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has several
towns established in Nevada, Utah and Texas. The normally secretive group
gave National Geographic unprecedented access to dispel the idea that the
polygamous group was a cult.
UNLV students, faculty and administrators turned to a traditional technique
yesterday to protest their anger at planned cuts of 10 percent or more to
Nevada's higher education budget. Ryan Wallis gathered this audio postcard
of the days speeches and action.
Conservatism has always won its victories from bitter defeats, argues author
Sam Tanenhaus. So will the 2008 election be such another election or have
conservatives already begun a resurgence.
MGM Mirage has announced plans to sell its interest in the Borgata - the
newest hotel in Atlantic City. It is doing so because New Jersey Gaming
regulators have declared the company's Macau partner Pansy Ho an unsuitable
person to be working with a licensee.
The university regents and higher education stakeholders met most of Tuesday
to hash out possible cuts to the system because of the state's deteriorating
budget situation. Opinion was unanimous that the cuts will spell disaster.
A Nevada company has been accused of bringing rare metals from mines in some
of the most troubled areas of the world - the Congo. We talk with an
official of ENOUGH - the project to end genocide and crimes against humanity
- about the importation of rare minerals for use in everyday electronics.
The Nevada Supreme Court has killed the applications lodged more than 20
years ago by the Southern Nevada Water Authority and the Las Vegas Valley
Water District. The claims were to water in rural Nevada but now the
authority may have to back and start the whole application process again.
It's pretty bad. But how bad. We talk with Jeremy Aguero of Applied Analysis
to find out why Las Vegas continues to bump along the bottom of the chart
and what can be done to improve things.
For the first time in decades, Nevada's population is shrinking. It could
affect everything from federal grants to the distribution of congressional
seats.
Governor Jim Gibbons has an eight-point plan to reform Nevada education and to save money at the same time. His critics say it's a political stunt but so far but the plan is picking up on the ideas of education reformers.
