nevada
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Nevada tribes: Unequal polling access violates voting rights
Tribal leaders in Nevada asked a U.S. judge Wednesday to order the state and two counties to establish satellite polling places on reservations where they say Native Americans are being denied an equal opportunity to vote in the November elections. Two Paiute tribes filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Reno accusing Nevada Secretary…
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Nevada becomes one of Trump’s big hopes for swing state win
Russ Wheeler bears the financial scars of Nevada’s lost decade, and he hopes Donald Trump can heal them. He worked for a Las Vegas roofing company when the real estate bust crushed the state’s economy. He took two pay cuts before getting laid off. He had to commute into the California desert to find work after that.…
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Feds see shortage in 2018 Lake Mead water to Arizona, Nevada
Amid punishing drought, federal water managers projected Tuesday that – by a very narrow margin- the crucial Lake Mead reservoir on the Colorado River won’t have enough water to make full deliveries to Nevada and Arizona in 2018. A 24-month projection, issued on a day the largest reservoir on the closely controlled and monitored river was 36…