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Lawmakers said to expect solutions for Nevada's $2 billion-plus shortfall to come during the next four-month period.
Monday marked the beginning of the state legislature's 2009 session. They will meet in Carson City for the next 120 days to address the shortfall and other problems such as the housing crisis and the rising unemployment rate.
Tags: Budget Crisis, budget cuts, legislature, Nevada State Legislature
Posted in Breaking News, News
The legislature will open its 2009 session today at noon.
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While the regents have ruled out a tuition increase for next semester, officials said a hike could be implemented as soon as the fall 2009 semester to deal with the $775 million hole in NSHE's budget.
Tags: Board of Regents, Budgets, Panda Express
Posted in News
LAS VEGAS - Board of Regents Chair Michael Wixom announced Friday morning that the board would hold a special meeting about the budget shortfall next week, postponing the discussion for a second time. The meeting will include discussion of a suggested tuition increase at Nevada System of Higher Education institutions, including the University of Nevada, Reno.
Posted in Breaking News, Budget Crisis, News
LAS VEGAS - A sea of students from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas protested possible tuition increase at Thursday's Board of Regents meeting and pledged to continue fighting the possibility.
Posted in Breaking News, Budget Crisis, News, News CP
Higher education officials said a tuition increase for next semester is unlikely, but wouldn't rule out the possibility of future increases as Nevada's budget shortfall continues.
After Nevada System of Higher Education Chancellor Jim Rogers said a 25 percent fee increase for students at the University of Nevada, Reno would raise $50 million for the system, students planned petitions and protests.
Tags: Board of Regents, Chancellor Jim Rogers, tuition increase, UNR
Posted in ASUN, Academics, Administration, Budget Crisis, News, Student Life
The University of Nevada, Reno still needs to cut another $10 million from next year's budget to deal with projected deficits, university officials said in a town hall meeting Monday.
UNR President Milton Glick, Provost Marc Johnson and other officials used the town hall to explain the state of the university's budget during a national economic recession and the highest budget shortfall in state history.
Tags: budget, Budget Crisis, budget cuts, Glick, Marc Johnson, Milton Glick, President Glick, Provost Johnson, Town Hall
Posted in Budget Crisis, News
Few movies have translated into successful movie adaptations. “Fight Club.†“Atonement.†The “Lord of the Rings†trilogy.
“Twilight,†the 2005 bestseller by Stephenie Meyer, won't be joining that list.
Fans of the book series will find themselves disappointed when a lack of plot and character development drags the movie down. Even the sight of Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenixâ€) can't bring redemption.
Tags: blood, estepa, Film, jessica, Review, suck, Twilight, vampires
Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Movies, Vibe
The group was one of many across the country that marched in public protest of Proposition 8, California's constitutional ban on gay marriage. Among them were students, families and gay couples who married in California after it was legalized during the summer.
Tags: gay marriage, Proposition 8, QSU
Posted in News, Student Life
In closing arguments Wednesday, a prosecutor argued for first-degree murder charges against Samisone Taukitoku while Taukitoku's lawyer said her client had acted in self-defense.
Jury deliberation began in the murder trial of the 20-year-old Reno resident accused of killing three men, including university student Derek Jensen, at a 2007 Halloween party.
Tags: derek jensen, Halloween, Halloween murder, murder trial, samisone taukitoku, trial
Posted in Breaking News, Crime, News
Despite a high youth turnout last Tuesday, some political experts are wondering if the youth will remain politically active or just become a blip at the voting booth.
Eric Herzik, a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, said the spike in interest was due to a well-run campaign by President-elect Barack Obama. According to a CNN exit poll, 68 percent of young voters chose Obama, while 30 percent chose Se. John McCain.
Tags: 2008 elections, Barack Obama, president elect, youth vote
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Uto Lomano gave an “uncomfortable†testimony Thursday, in which he affirmed that he watched a man he calls his uncle shoot two men several times.
Lomano, 17, answered mostly in “yeahâ€s or “noâ€s in his testimony against Samisoni Taukitoku, the man accused of shooting three people to death at a Halloween party last year.
Tags: Halloween murder, murder trial, Samisoni Taukitoku, trial
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This week's stories in news, arts and entertainments, sports and the elections special section.
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Nevada's voters may be focused on which presidential ticket they will vote for come Election Day, but political experts said voters need to remember the importance of state and local races this year.
“You see voters come in every four years, and they vote for president and Congress, but they won't vote for the state legislature,†said Kenneth Fernandez, a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Tags: 2008 election, Dean Heller, Jill Derby, Nevada election, Nevada elections, politics, state elections, youth vote
Posted in Election Coverage, News
Reno residents will get a taste for the American West when the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering comes to the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts Oct. 28.
The event, which has been a part of Elko's performing arts scene for the last 25 years, will feature Polish rodeo poet Paul Zarzyski, yodeler Wylie Gustafson and his band Wylie & The Wild West.
Posted in Arts & Entertainment, InsideReno
