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CARSON CITY – Gov. Jim Gibbons sent a letter to legislative leadership yesterday saying executive branch officials will not attend next week’s meeting of a lawmaker panel formed to undertake a review of state agency budgets.
The decision could create a legal and constitutional showdown between Gibbons, who is in the final months of his term, and the Legislature, over the authority held by the two branches of government.

CARSON CITY – Gov. Jim Gibbons sent a letter to legislative leadership yesterday saying executive branch officials will not attend next week’s meeting of a lawmaker panel formed to undertake a review of state agency budgets.
The decision could create a legal and constitutional showdown between Gibbons, who is in the final months of his term, and the Legislature, over the authority held by the two branches of government.

CARSON CITY – Gov. Jim Gibbons sent a letter to legislative leadership yesterday saying executive branch officials will not attend next week’s meeting of a lawmaker panel formed to undertake a review of state agency budgets.
The decision could create a legal and constitutional showdown between Gibbons, who is in the final months of his term, and the Legislature, over the authority held by the two branches of government.

CARSON CITY – Gov. Jim Gibbons sent a letter to legislative leadership yesterday saying executive branch officials will not attend next week’s meeting of a lawmaker panel formed to undertake a review of state agency budgets.
The decision could create a legal and constitutional showdown between Gibbons, who is in the final months of his term, and the Legislature, over the authority held by the two branches of government.

CARSON CITY – Gov. Jim Gibbons sent a letter to legislative leadership yesterday saying executive branch officials will not attend next week’s meeting of a lawmaker panel formed to undertake a review of state agency budgets.
The decision could create a legal and constitutional showdown between Gibbons, who is in the final months of his term, and the Legislature, over the authority held by the two branches of government.

CARSON CITY – Gov. Jim Gibbons sent a letter to legislative leadership yesterday saying executive branch officials will not attend next week’s meeting of a lawmaker panel formed to undertake a review of state agency budgets.
The decision could create a legal and constitutional showdown between Gibbons, who is in the final months of his term, and the Legislature, over the authority held by the two branches of government.

CARSON CITY – Gov. Jim Gibbons sent a letter to legislative leadership yesterday saying executive branch officials will not attend next week’s meeting of a lawmaker panel formed to undertake a review of state agency budgets.
The decision could create a legal and constitutional showdown between Gibbons, who is in the final months of his term, and the Legislature, over the authority held by the two branches of government.

CARSON CITY – Gov. Jim Gibbons sent a letter to legislative leadership yesterday saying executive branch officials will not attend next week’s meeting of a lawmaker panel formed to undertake a review of state agency budgets.
The decision could create a legal and constitutional showdown between Gibbons, who is in the final months of his term, and the Legislature, over the authority held by the two branches of government.

CARSON CITY – A representative of a group seeking to turn Yucca Mountain into an energy park said a ruling earlier this week halting the withdrawal of the application to license the site as a nuclear waste dump is a huge opportunity for Nevada.
“We are thrilled with the ruling,” said Randi Thompson with Nevadans 4 Carbon-Free Energy. “It’s huge for Nevada.”

CARSON CITY – A representative of a group seeking to turn Yucca Mountain into an energy park said a ruling earlier this week halting the withdrawal of the application to license the site as a nuclear waste dump is a huge opportunity for Nevada.
“We are thrilled with the ruling,” said Randi Thompson with Nevadans 4 Carbon-Free Energy. “It’s huge for Nevada.”

CARSON CITY – A representative of a group seeking to turn Yucca Mountain into an energy park said a ruling earlier this week halting the withdrawal of the application to license the site as a nuclear waste dump is a huge opportunity for Nevada.
“We are thrilled with the ruling,” said Randi Thompson with Nevadans 4 Carbon-Free Energy. “It’s huge for Nevada.”

CARSON CITY – A representative of a group seeking to turn Yucca Mountain into an energy park said a ruling earlier this week halting the withdrawal of the application to license the site as a nuclear waste dump is a huge opportunity for Nevada.
“We are thrilled with the ruling,� said Randi Thompson with Nevadans 4 Carbon-Free Energy. “It’s huge for Nevada.�

CARSON CITY – A representative of a group seeking to turn Yucca Mountain into an energy park said a ruling earlier this week halting the withdrawal of the application to license the site as a nuclear waste dump is a huge opportunity for Nevada.
“We are thrilled with the ruling,” said Randi Thompson with Nevadans 4 Carbon-Free Energy. “It’s huge for Nevada.”

CARSON CITY – A representative of a group seeking to turn Yucca Mountain into an energy park said a ruling earlier this week halting the withdrawal of the application to license the site as a nuclear waste dump is a huge opportunity for Nevada.
“We are thrilled with the ruling,” said Randi Thompson with Nevadans 4 Carbon-Free Energy. “It’s huge for Nevada.”

CARSON CITY – Audits of two state mental health programs reviewed today identified a number of serious findings, from physicians working only a few hours a day to questionable and potentially fraudulent bills for services to the mentally ill.

CARSON CITY – A ruling by a panel of federal judges saying the U.S. Department of Energy does not have the authority to withdraw its licensing application of Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository will be appealed, a Nevada official said yesterday.

CARSON CITY – It may be welcome news for those who have entry level jobs, but a more than 9 percent hike in the minimum wage to take effect Thursday in Nevada will have a chilling effect on hiring, particularly for teens, according to one national group.
A Nevada union official disagrees, saying the minimum wage hike isn’t to blame for the state’s record jobless rate or the high unemployment levels seen among teens in the workforce.

CARSON CITY – A delay in federal payments to Nevada’s counties is not anticipated to cause any financial problems for the cash-strapped local governments, officials said in interviews last week.

CARSON CITY – Gov. Jim Gibbons today announced the appointment of Charles Harvey as executive director of the Nevada Office of Veterans Services. Harvey currently serves as Nevada’s American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) director.

Carson City health officials are urging vaccinations after several reported cases of whopping cough in neighboring California.

CARSON CITY – State budget Director Andrew Clinger today sent a memo to all agencies saying the process of building the new two-year Nevada budget will be substantially different from past practice.
Given the fiscal crisis faced by the state over the past three years, Nevada can no longer craft a budget by taking the previous year’s expenditures, adjust for one-time expenditures and add inflation and caseload growth, he said.

CARSON CITY – Jobless benefits will resume quickly to Nevada’s eligible unemployed residents if Congress passes legislation to again extend the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation programs that expired on June 2, a state agency reported today.
There are about 70,000 people receiving EUC benefits in Nevada.

CARSON CITY – Gov. Jim Gibbons today announced plans to dramatically increase the use of solar power by the State of Nevada.
Working through the State Energy Office, a request for proposals (RFP) is being put together to develop solar energy systems at multiple state agency sites. The idea is to place solar energy panels on state property, particularly on large state parking lots. Power from these solar energy panels would be used to provide low-cost energy to adjacent and nearby state buildings, resulting in significant savings to taxpayers.

The Nevada Division of Insurance office at 788 Fairview Dr., in Carson City is closed this morning, and telephone calls to the office are being directed to Las Vegas after employees may have been sickened by pest spraying.

CARSON CITY – Nevada Supreme Court Justice James Hardesty said a program the state initiated a few years ago to pardon selected illegal resident inmates so they could be deported to free up space in the prison system was in his view successful.
Hardesty said the review resulted in 106 nonviolent inmates being granted conditional pardons in exchange for a waiver of any immigration hearing and agreement to be deported to their country of origin.

CARSON CITY – Nevada’s unemployment rate keeps creeping upward despite signs the economic slowdown has hit bottom, and April statistics from the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation show job losses are now being seen in the government employment sector as well.

A team of athletes, many of whom are wounded Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, will leave from Golden Gate Bridge on Saturday for World T.E.A.M. Sports’ inaugural bike trek across America called Sea to Shining Sea. The group will arrive in Carson City on May 28 on their way to their Virginia Beach, Va., destination.

While the Carson City Board of Supervisors are on track to ante up $75,000 this week to move the Nugget Project to the next phase, I'm finding that the more I dig into the details, the more the numbers don't seem to add up.

Specifically, I'm looking into part of the project that calls for getting three state agencies to lease space in this proposed 177,000 square foot development in downtown Carson City. I use the word "proposed" in a very loose sense here, since it's likely to change once P3 Development begins the real process of feasibility planning for this project. In fact, as I am writing this, there's a new story out from Northern Nevada Business Weekly quoting the developer that the office portion would be 175,000 square feet, with an additional 50,000 square feet of retail space, to go along with the 60,000 square feet for the library/business incubator/digital media lab portion of the project.

At the Carson Nugget Redevelopment Advisory Committee meeting last night, it was revealed that the developers are negotiating with the Gaming Control Board, Public Utilities Commission and the Department of Health and Human Services about relocating to the planned downtown development.

But the landlord of one of these agencies said it would be highly unlikely that any of them will move anytime soon.

CARSON CITY – Gov. Jim Gibbons announced yesterday he is pursuing an initiative petition to subject labor negotiations between unions and local government entities to the open meeting law to give taxpayers access to the discussions.
Some Republican lawmakers welcomed the idea, saying the Democrat-controlled Legislature has been unwilling to consider such a proposal.