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I am a single mother of three kids, one with medical needs. I have put in 11 years with the State and I can’t believe the cuts they are talking about.

Faced with the prospects of massive teacher layoffs, more state worker pink slips and shorter paychecks for those who stay, slashed services for the poor, the sick and the elderly, and the closure

UNLV students will amass on the steps of the State Legislature on the morning of the first day of the special session of the legislature.

CARSON CITY – As Gov.

By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau

CARSON CITY – Gov. Jim Gibbons today defended his plan to balance the state budget and challenged critics to come forward with workable alternatives if they object to any parts of his proposal.

Governor Gibbons has notified state lawmakers they will be ordered back to Carson City on February 23rd to convene a special session of the State Legislature to deal with the state’s nearly $900 mi

By Sean Whaley | Nevada News Bureau

By Phillip Moyer | Nevada News Bureau

(Updated at 12:04 p.m. on Feb. 16, 2010)

Over 90 Nevada citizens voiced their opinions about the economic situation to Nevada legislators at the Reno Town Hall meeting Saturday morning.  An estimated 500 citizens showed up at Reno City Ha

(Updated at 10:23 a.m. on Feb. 9, 2010)

Saying that government must be reduced and that Nevadans can solve their own problems without help from Washington DC, Governor Gibbons tonight laid down the gauntlet: “No New Taxes and cut the budge

CARSON CITY – Gov.

CARSON CITY – Nevada Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford said today that dozens of cuts proposed by Gov.

CARSON CITY – In the face of potential college campus closures, hundreds of state employee layoffs and a state budget crisis of unprecedented proportions, there was a tiny bit of good news delivere

RENO – Those charged with overseeing Nevada’s system of higher education heard several scenarios today if the current state budget crisis requires cuts of 22 percent, from closing campuses to huge

CARSON CITY – Gov.

CARSON CITY – Nevada’s taxable sales fell by 10.9 percent in November 2009 over the same month in 2008, making it the 13th month of double-digit declines in economic activity in the stat

The special sessions I have observed since the 80’s have basically been fairly routine.

Tuesday, January 12, 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

By Carson City resident Karl Neathammer
It has been my observation and I believe even a cursory analysis of our political history will show that all political ideologies and movements eventually e

At his much touted “Open Door Meeting” with state lawmakers and the news media, Governor Gibbons started the session with a dismal evaluation of the state budget, said more state worker pay cuts or fu

Governor Jim Gibbons said today that to “clear the air,” he wants everyone to know that there will be no calling of a special session until after January 19th.

Snow plows are expected to make Carson City streets safe enough for school buses by tomorrow morning.

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Governor Gibbons further acknowledged today the state’s very precarious budget situation caused by the recession.

Speaking through his deputy chief of staff Lynn Hettrick, Governor Gibbons will convene a special session of the Legislature before June to address state budget problems and to seek further federal ai

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Revenue streams from sales tax down to real estate transfers are shrinking by the month. Gov.

Gibbons: Still no plans for special sessionBy GEOFF DORNAN gdornan@nevadaappeal.c