The City of Reno’s Clean and Safe Team has increased clearings of large homeless camps over the last few weeks.
Lucia Starbuck
Lucia Starbuck
Lucia Starbuck is a graduate of University of Nevada, Reynolds School of Journalism. She has reported on issues impacting Northern Nevada, including the affordable housing crisis, a lack of oral healthcare and challenges voters with disabilities face while trying to participate in the election process. She has directed and filmed two documentaries about homelessness.Through reporting, Lucia strives to shine a light on the challenges vulnerable populations face in our community.
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KUNR’s Lucia Starbuck talked to Heather Carmen, the Assistant Registrar of Voters for Washoe County, about how to send and receive a ballot if you don’t have stable housing or an address.
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Lucia Starbuck de KUNR habló con Heather Carmen, la secretaria auxiliar de votantes del condado de Washoe, sobre cómo enviar y recibir una boleta si no tiene una vivienda estable o una dirección postal.
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El desproporcionado impacto de COVID-19 en las comunidades de color provocó que los legisladores de Nevada calificaran el racismo como una crisis de salud pública, durante el último dÃa de la 32ª sesión especial.
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As COVID-19 disproportionately impacts people of color, Nevada lawmakers named racism as a public health crisis during the last day of the 32nd special session.
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Senate reverses parts of 2019 police reform bill, removes protections for officers under investigation
Lawmakers in Nevada’s Senate and Assembly this week passed a controversial measure to remove protections for law enforcement officers.
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Lawmakers in the Senate introduced a bill during the 32nd special session that would halt some evictions in the state, passing it with bipartisan support.
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Senate passes bill to tax mining companies at higher rate, met with little support in public comment
Collecting money from the mining industry is back under discussion for the 32nd special session.
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Protest at Tahoe ice cream shop after owner makes ‘insensitive’ comments about Black Lives Matter
More than 50 demonstrators lined the street in front of Sweet Tahoe Time, an ice cream shop in Kings Beach, California, on Tuesday to protest the owner.
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Amendment No. 7 to Assembly Bill 3—a massive bill that proposes cuts to public education in the state as well as Nevada’s Department of Health and Human services and its departments—was swiftly passed today by members of Nevada’s Assembly.