Category: Economy
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House votes to yank funding for NPR, PBS, foreign aid, sending bill to Trump’s desk
This article was originally published at nevadacurrent.com The U.S. Capitol on July 2, 2025. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — The U.S. House cleared legislation just after midnight Friday that will cancel $9 billion in previously approved spending for public broadcasting and foreign aid, marking only the second time in more than three decades Congress…
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House committee rejects Trump effort to allow slaughter of wild horses
This article was originally published at nevadacurrent.com Wild horses in the Northern Nevada Virginia Range. (Photo courtesy of the American Wild Horse Campaign) President Donald Trump’s effort to eliminate longstanding protections preventing the slaughter of America’s wild horses hit a snag this week when the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations included language in an Interior…
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Venture capital giant flees Delaware to incorporate in Nevada, urges others to do the same
This article was originally published at nevadacurrent.com The New Castle County Courthouse, home of the Delaware Chancery Court. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images) The country’s largest venture capital firm this week announced it is moving its state of incorporation from Delaware to Nevada, and it encouraged other venture capitalists to follow suit. Andreessen Horowitz’s…
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Nevada would have joined Idaho and N. Dakota as leaders protecting renters, but Lombardo said “veto”
Governor Joe Lombardo (R) speaking at Caesar’s Palace at the Freedom Fest 2024 Convention. Lombardo vetoed a series of laws passed recently in the last session of the Nevada Legislature. The bills were aimed at helping renters in the state. The bills passed along party-line votes, with Republicans in both chambers voting against the measures.