Congress

The Carson City Visitors Bureau is one 75 nonprofit organizations selected to receive the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Grant, a literary grant challenging communities to create month-long programming around the themes of selected novels.

The Nevada National Guard is set to host its 19th annual Flag Day and U.S. Army's 242nd birthday celebration 10 a.m. this Wednesday, June 14 at the Veterans Memorial on Capitol grounds, 101 N. Carson St. in Carson City.

Kira Costarella, a Douglas High School senior, is a Delegate to the Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Lowell, MA on June 25-­27, 2017. The Congress is an honors-only program for high school students who want to become physicians or go into medical research fields.

It looks like liberals are now in the business of using billboards to promote their delusions. They have hijacked the truth and put it on Interstate 580 for everyone to see with a billboard making the ridiculous claim that Senator Dean Heller voted to allow companies to purchase your Internet browsing history.

This claim is a far cry from the truth. All the Republican-controlled Congress did is restore the rule of law by repealing the political favoritism of the Obama Administration's regulatory overreach. Your privacy is still intact and the liberals know it.

Brett Silver is a voracious reader, and he has been since childhood. He’s also legally blind. “My grandma was a retired school teacher,” he said. “She made sure I got my own kind of library.”

She discovered the Talking Books program at the Nevada State Library and Archives and introduced it to her grandson.

For six years, most Republicans campaigning for federal office pledged to repeal ObamaCare. According to national polls, a majority of Americans have consistently opposed ObamaCare even when they otherwise approved of Barack Obama as president.

The Carson City Library is joining libraries around the state in petitioning the Legislature for a buffer against proposed federal cuts, which would cost Nevada libraries $3.5 million over the biennium.

What is paid for interest on qualified home mortgages can be an itemized deduction on Schedule A of form 1040. The 2016 form 1098 reports the amount of interest paid and some new additional information.

American military veterans, their families, friends and members of the community gathered Saturday afternoon in Mills Park to remember the Vietnam War at the annual Welcome Home ceremony held in front of the Nevada Vietnam War Memorial located on the park's east end.

Memo

TO: The Donald

FROM: A proud but increasingly alarmed member of the irredeemable deplorables

RE: Stories about bullying the freedom caucus because of their opposition to 
0bamacare 2.0 / RyanCare / RINOcare / TrumpCare / "repeal"

Example:
from the Drudge Report
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-health-care-obamacare-repeal...

and others across the full spectrum of the media on March 21.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CONGRESS_HEALTH_OVERHAUL?SITE=...

The Carson High School winners of the Shark Tank competition are in with amazing new ideas for start-up companies and new inventions of products, not to mention the monetary winnings that allow these aspiring entrepreneur-contestants to take the next step in the process of starting their own businesses or inventing and marketing their new products.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s February 23 comments on marijuana received major attention in Nevada. Spicer volunteered that marijuana is still illegal under federal law and there would be “greater enforcement” in states that legalized recreational marijuana.

Helene de Bossier Swanson, who completed a 7,000 mile spiritual pilgrimage on foot traveling across all 15 states that have not yet ratified the Equal Right Amendment will be staffing the table Wednesday during the International Women's Day, Empowering Women event.

CARSON CITY — The Equal Rights Amendment was approved by the Nevada Senate on Wednesday after passionate floor debate and more than 30 years since it was sent to the states by Congress.

It was 100 years ago that Congress recognized the importance of vocational education by enacting the Smith-Hughes Act that provided federal funding for vocational agriculture training.

A century later, the importance of skill-related careers and training are also being emphasized closer to home. Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval and Carson City Mayor Bob Crowell declared February as Career and Technical Education Month. 

Gregory MacDonald represented himself (he acted as his own attorney) in a U.S. Tax Court proceeding. He disputed the IRS finding he was not entitled to an earned income credit of $438 and he claimed he was entitled to the special recovery rebate credit of $400.

Special Olympics athletes, program leaders, Unified Partners and family members from 39 states and the District of Columbia converged on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Feb. 15, for Special Olympics’ 15th annual “Capitol Hill Day.”

Over the last two decades, the Lake Tahoe Region has become a national leader in fighting the introduction and spread of aquatic invasive species (AIS) that threaten to harm its world-renowned environment and the $5 billion recreation-based economy it supports.

As I now conclude this particular article, it is just hours away from one of America's most revered events--if not the most. President-elect Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building at 12:00 noon on January 20, and Mike Pence will be duly sworn in as the Vice-President of the United States.

Governor Brian Sandoval is recommending lawmakers approve his $8.1 billion biennial budget proposal that would advance more than $33 million dollars to allow construction on the greatly anticipated and much needed Northern Nevada State Veterans Home in Reno.

Last week Congressman Amodei and Senator Heller introduced legislation to “prevent the threat of executive action designating or expanding national monuments without Congressional approval or local support.” Their legislation would add Nevada to Wyoming as the only states exempt from presidential designation of National Monuments, except as authorized by Congress.

Here is the 2017 State of the State presented by Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval.

RENO – The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) has elected Dr. Robert A. Simon to the Board of Directors.

The annual Carson High School Dodgeball Tournament took place Dec. 6-16 in the Carson High School big gym during lunch, and both the victory and bragging rights went to the students and not to the teachers.

The competition was fierce with rubber balls flying all over the place and many of the younger CHS teachers strutting their stuff out on the gym floor, battling feverishly to defeat the students.

The first speech and debate tournament of the year is always an exciting and nerve-wrecking time. We started out the school year with some amazing recruitment efforts on the part of the few returning underclassmen we had recommit to compete this year.

With our school’s annual overnight trip to Rock Creek and the first weeks of school, few competitors felt confident enough with the practice time put in to be able to successfully compete at the first tournament but we did have a small team of three ready and anxious to present to pieces for judgement.

Late Friday night, the U.S. House of Representatives joined the U.S. Senate in passing the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act of 2016, which will bring $415 million in future funding to Lake Tahoe over the next seven years. The decision brought cheers from many local agencies, including the League to Save lake Tahoe and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.

The morning of Dec. 7, 1941 started out for many Americans about the same as any other Sunday.

Households rose at dawn to feed the stock, catch the morning paper riding by, prepare a hearty breakfast and get ready for church services. By the end of the day, though, the nation and the world would be changed forever.

The House and Senate have agreed to include the bipartisan Lake Tahoe Restoration Act in the final bicameral Water Resources Development Act, titled the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act, Nevada Sen. Dean Heller announced Monday.

Thanksgiving isn't a patriotic holiday per se, but it is full of patriotic feelings as Americans did and should give thanks for our shared blessings as a nation.

Though there are still six months of school remaining, Carson High School’s counselors say that now is the time for seniors to kick it into gear to go to college. Applications for college are due now and in the next few weeks, and scholarship opportunities begin flooding in during January.