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Miss this? State safety net has alarming fissures

Director of PLAN, Bob Fulkerson, penned this editorial that appeared in the Las Vegas Review Journal shortly after the closing of the 2011 Neavda Legislative Session.

 

 

What does it say about our state and what we value when we cut first from those who can least afford to shoulder the burden and that we allow lobbyists and other moneyed interestes to exert their "unseemly and overbearing influence on public governance,".

 

 

In spite of these brutal reductions, Nevada will face another large budget deficit in the 2013 session.

Transgender Laws - One Remarkable Success

Diedra Parks of Reno News and Review with a rundown of PLAN's legislative victories.

With the whirlwind 120 days of Nevada lawmaking over, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada lobbyist Jan Gilbert reflects on this year’s victories for disenfranchised Nevadans. Three bills backed by PLAN that safeguard transgender and gender non-conforming Nevadans from discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations were signed into law.

“Getting these bills passed was almost amazing, it truly was,” Gilbert says. “I thought it was going to be much more difficult.”
 
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