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Guest speaker outlines rocky road for PERS

Transparency researcher Robert Fellner stopped in Pahrump on Thursday to talk about the Nevada Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) and its soaring debt.

NDOT breaks ground on Highway 372 roundabouts

The Nevada Department of Transportation broke ground on a pair of roundabouts along a one-mile-long stretch of Highway 372 at the intersections of Blagg Road and Pahrump Valley Boulevard Monday.

NDOT receives $20 million in additional highway spending

The Nevada Department of Transportation received $20 million in additional federal highway spending to go toward funding various road projects in the state, including a few that impact the Pahrump Valley.

Foundation provided $10,000 to bring Vietnam moving wall to Pahrump

Pahrump’s Home Depot general manager saluted the efforts of all who volunteered their time to bring a replica of the Vietnam Memorial Wall to the community during last month’s Fall Festival.

Papers, Please: Polling Place Edition

On September 30, a federal judge threw a new wrench into Wisconsin’s voter ID law, ordering an investigation into whether the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles employees properly implemented measures to ensure availability of identity documents to prospective voters. Those employees seem to be caught in the middle, torn between assisting the disproportionately African-American poor in getting “documented” on one hand, and fulfilling Republican politicians’ aims of suppressing black voter turnout on the other. Cue the world’s smallest violin.

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