State Feed: Nevada

Nevada Activist Honored for Crucial Efforts to Protect State Initiative Process

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:43:36 -0400

(LAKE RIDGE, VA) – Today, Citizens in Charge Foundation, a national voter rights group focused on the ballot initiative and referendum process, presented Janine Hansen, a Nevada citizen activist working with Citizen Outreach with the June 2011 John Lilburne Award for her outstanding dedication to protecting Nevada’s citizen initiative rights from legislation that would have severely restricted those rights.

Nevada: Empty Suits

AmandaKathryn — Thu, 05 May 2011 20:24:23 -0400

Let’s dispense with the obvious right away: Some Boulder City residents say they think most of their city council members, along with the city attorney, are power hungry and care as little for the law as they do for the will of the people.

Boulder City, Nevada, Attorneys Honored for Work Protecting Citizens from Free Speech Attack by City

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:50:12 -0500

(LAKE RIDGE, VA) – Today, Citizens in Charge Foundation, a national voter rights group focused on the ballot initiative and referendum process, presented attorneys Tracy and Linda Strickland of Boulder City, Nevada, with the February 2011 John Lilburne Award. The Stricklands are representing a group of Boulder City citizens who, in pursuing several local initiative measures, have been repeatedly sued by the city.

Nevada: No citizen initiatives on Nevada ballot

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:46:10 -0400

For the first time since 1992, Nevada voters will find no question on their November ballot that qualified as the result of a citizen’s initiative petition, the secretary of state’s office has reported. The deadline for submitting the required number of signatures to county clerks passed Tuesday with no petitions presented in any county. Three petitions to amend the state Constitution were in circulation.

Nevada: More signatures needed for mining measure

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:54:33 -0400

Nevada voters won’t get the chance to decide whether the state’s booming mining industry should pay higher taxes. On Monday, the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, or PLAN, said it wouldn’t meet today’s deadline to provide the 97,002 signatures from registered voters needed to place the mining tax initiative on the November ballot.

Read the story from the Las Vegas Review-Journal

Nevada: Immigration ballot measure proposed by senate candidate

Fri, 07 May 2010 11:22:16 -0400

Jumping on a hot election-year issue, U.S. Senate candidate Chad Christensen on Thursday launched a ballot initiative that would impose an Arizona-like law in Nevada, giving authorities the right to question and arrest possible illegal immigrants in certain cases. Christensen, a Las Vegas assemblyman, said he is working on a draft of his Nevada Immigration Reform Referendum and would start gathering signatures immediately, although he is not sure whether he’ll be able to meet a deadline to get the initiative on the November ballot.

Nevada: Petition for city attorney election submitted

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:08:44 -0400

Boulder City residents petitioning for more ballot initiatives in the upcoming general election submitted a charter amendment question Thursday regarding the appointment of the city attorney. The amendment initiative asks whether the city attorney should be elected instead of appointed by the City Council. The ballot committee submitted the question along with 869 signatures and 195 notarized pages. To be placed on the ballot, an initiative must be accompanied by a petition signed by at least 640 registered voters, according to the city clerk’s office.

Nevada: Landfill committee submits signatures

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:43:54 -0400

The committee working to get the issue of a second landfill on the ballot in November turned in their signatures to the Humboldt County Clerk’s Office on Wednesday. The committee needed 852 signatures but collected 1294 — just to be on the safe side. If ultimately included on the ballot, the voters would have an opportunity to decide whether or not they want to limit the amount of garbage that could be imported to a second landfill within the county.

Nevada: Abortion initiative arguments heard by state Supreme Court

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:49:06 -0400

The Nevada Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on a ballot initiative that would outlaw abortions in the state. The group “Personhood Nevada” wants to redefine the law to provide civil rights to the unborn fetus, making it illegal to terminate a pregnancy. The case was appealed after a lower court ruled the petition was too broad and violated state law. The ACLU and Planned Parenthood are trying to stop the initiative, claiming it fails to inform voters that it would affect both abortions and birth control.

Nevada: Senate candidate to push healthcare freedom initiative

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:59:50 -0400

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian says he’s forming a committee to spearhead a ballot initiative for a state constitutional amendment guaranteeing what he says would be health care freedom. He says he plans to launch the effort Wednesday in Las Vegas, a day after President Barack Obama signed the nearly $1 trillion health care overhaul bill into law, which will for the first time cement insurance coverage as the right of every U.S. citizen.

Read the story from KTVN 2

Nevada: Bid to block mining petition fails

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:39:17 -0400

The mining industry lost an early legal bid Friday to keep Nevadans from voting on a ballot measure in the fall that would dramatically increase mining taxes in the richest gold mining state in the nation. District Court Judge James Wilson Jr. refused to block Nevadans for Fair Mining Taxes from pursuing an initiative that would amend the state constitution to make mines pay taxes before instead of after deducting most expenses.

Read the story from The Reno Gazette Journal

Nevada: Mining tax initiative before judge

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:44:20 -0400

Lawyers for the Nevada Mining Association are going before a judge in Carson City to try to block a ballot petition drive aimed at raising taxes on the mining industry. District Judge James Wilson scheduled a 2 p.m. hearing Friday on the bid to keep the initiative off the ballot this fall based on claims it’s unconstitutional.

Read the story from the San Francisco Chronicle

Nevada: Circulation planned for two ballot initiatives on union action

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:58:11 -0500

A national organization unhappy with organized labor intends to circulate two petitions in Nevada this year that would require union elections to be by secret ballot and require employees to agree before political contributions are taken from their paychecks. A third petition to be circulated by SOS (Save Our Secret) Ballot would add to the state constitution the requirement that elections for public office and issues be conducted by secret ballot, as they are done now by widespread practice.

Nevada: Personhood initiative tossed out by judge

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:10:38 -0500

A state judge in Carson City threw out a proposed ballot initiative Friday that sought to define a person as “everyone possessing a human genome,” saying the language was too vague and violated state law that limits questions to one subject. The Nevada Personhood initiative proposed to amend the state Constitution by defining a person and extending due process rights from the beginning of biological development through end of life.

Nevada: Initiative proposed to tax and regulate marijuana

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:53:38 -0500

Nevadans for Sensible Marijuana Laws will submit an initiative petition to the Secretary of State on Wed, Jan. 6, and discuss the details of a 2012 ballot initiative that would establish a taxed and regulated marijuana market for adults 21 years of age and older in the state of Nevada.

Read the story from The Examiner

Initiative for gold mining tax

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:26:02 -0500

A liberal advocacy group will go after gold miners’ state tax deductions, in an effort to raise more than $200 million a year for state coffers. The board of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada voted last month to pursue a statutory initiative to eliminate most of the deductions that reduce the taxes paid by gold mining companies. Liberals have argued for years that mining does not pay its fair share in tax — an argument that has gained traction as gold prices have soared to record levels while the state’s general fund has faced massive budget shortfalls.

Nevada personhood initiative gets court date

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:15:59 -0500

A state judge in Carson City has scheduled a Jan. 8 hearing for arguments challenging the description of a proposed ballot initiative that seeks to define a person and override Nevada’s abortion laws. The Nevada “personhood” initiative seeks to amend the state constitution by defining a person and extending due process rights to “everyone possessing a human genome” from the beginning of biological development through end of life.

Read the story from San Jose Mercury News

Pro-life groups in Nevada don't support initiative to ban abortions

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:22:54 -0500

Four groups that for more than 30 years have fought for anti-abortion legislation say they are opposed to a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at banning abortions. Janine Hansen, president of Nevada Eagle Forum, says that while the backers of the initiative petition have good intentions it will not stop abortions.

Read the story from the Las Vegas Sun

Committee organized for abortion initiative

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:55:45 -0400

Las Vegas conservative activist and 2004 Republican U.S. Senate candidate Richard Ziser filed an initiative petition Wednesday that seeks to outlaw abortion in Nevada. Ziser organized a committee called Personhood Nevada to campaign for the petition, which would amend the Nevada Constitution to read “the term person applies to every human being.” The petition says human being would be defined as anybody “possessing a human genome.”

Read the story from Reno Gazette Journal

A Nevada History

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:15:27 -0400

Nevada is one of the the 26 states in the US that has some form of statewide initiative & referendum rights. The process in the state has been used for many different issues over the years. To read more about the process in Nevada you can check it out here.