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Reno Mayor Schieve no 'lame duck,' wants to fight crime, improve neighborhoods & reviltalize downtown in final 2 years
News - December 17, 2024

"Everyone's asking me, 'What's next?' It's funny because, as you know, I'm a nonpartisan, and it's very hard to run for another office if you're not in a party." Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve on her future in politics

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CD-2 debate: Can Kidd effectively represent Reno & Northern Nevada in Congress with no political party backing?
News - October 18, 2024

Nevada's 2nd U.S. House District has 187,409 registered non-partisan voters as of September of 2024, according to the Nevada Secretary of State. The congressional district has roughly 36,000 more registered non-partisans than Democrats.

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CD-2 debate: Kidd ties Amodei to do-nothing Congress; Amodei calls Kidd's non-partisanship a sham
News - October 17, 2024

Candidates square off in day one of two-day debate on Nevada Newsmakers

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Interest rates, not election, key reason for slowdown in real estate, development markets, Reno's Tolles said
News - October 13, 2024

"Everybody always puts it (slowdown) on the election but from a real estate standpoint, if you look at the last 20 years, there's been no meaningful changes in real estate because of an election year." Par Tolles, CEO of Tolles Development of Reno

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Sparks mayor makes case for toll road to ease dangerous traffic on stretch of I-80 to Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center
Commentary - October 6, 2024

"If you're not doing 85, you're getting run over." Sparks Mayor Ed Lawson, on the frantic traffic on the 12-mile stretch of Interstate-80 from Sparks to the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center in Storey County

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Rep. Titus says she won't give up on passing bump-stock ban in U.S. Congress
News - October 3, 2024

"Well, I've got the bill to do away with the bump stocks, and I have a discharge petition where a number of people have signed it to say, 'Bring that bill to the floor, because if you brought it to the floor, I think it would pass.'" Dina Titus, Nevada's 1st U.S. House District representative

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Nevada's CD 3 Rep. Susie Lee masters art of playing politics in middle of the field
Commentary - September 23, 2024

"You know, I don't want to live in a country where you have to wait for the political tides to swing to get things done." Nevada's 3rd U.S. House District Rep. Susie Lee, D-Las Vegas

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Reno's issues with U.S. Postal Service far from over, Amodei warns: Questions of packages, parcels & Reno postal jobs need answers
News - September 23, 2024

"As we've learned over the years, the Postal Service is a constant oversight challenge, even to the point where we've got a couple of new things now where apparently, they're not watering the lawns in in some of the post offices around (Northern Nevada)." Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Carson City, Nevada's 2nd U.S. House District representative.

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Horsford, Black Caucus leader, appointed to powerful committee after death of elderly Democratic colleague
News - September 18, 2024

"Ways and Means is one of the committees in Congress where you can get big things done, in a bipartisan way." U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford

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'You know you're a Nevadan if ... you knew Guy Clifton,' Silver State loses great author, journalist & friend
Commentary - September 13, 2024

Sportswriter Chris Murray eloquently pointed out recently that Guy "might have been the most influential journalist in Reno's history" because Guy was a mentor who influenced so many of today's journalists and other media professionals in Northern Nevada.

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