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No Stigma Nevada It’s the worst time to skimp on mental-health resources By Kim Palchikoff Mental Health Awareness Month arrives this year with Nevada facing a crisis it has failed to handle in the past and remains ill-prepared to deal with now. You don’t need to read reports and statistics …
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No-Stigma Nevada “Curbside Nevada: A helpline for doctors, by doctors.” -As told to Kim Palchikoff by Dr. Lesley Dickson, a psychiatrist for 34 years. Often medical personnel treating patients with COVID-19 experience enormous psychological stress. In late April, 14 Nevada psychiatrists, including three from Reno, established “Curbside Nevada,” a …
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No Stigma Nevada –By Kim Palchikoff Former Nevada Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa: Optimism, a return to normalcy and cleaning the refrigerator Most Nevadans know Frankie Sue Del Papa as the Silver State’s first female Attorney General. But there’s a lot Nevadans don’t know about the former Democratic Party …
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No Stigma Nevada: When the coronavirus ends, your marriage doesn’t have to -By Kim Palchikoff Note: Several Nevada marriage and family therapists collaborated on this piece. Stay-at-home orders are proving helpful in the struggle against the fatal coronavirus, but such severe isolation can wreak havoc on marriages and other cohabitational …
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No-Stigma Nevada: Obamacare can be fixed. Here’s where to start. By Kim Palchikoff As an Affordable Care Act participant, I expect last month’s long-awaited court ruling will have some serious consequences for me. The problem is, I have no idea how. There have been many rulings on …
Read More »NPA names six as 2019 First Amendment Champions
The Nevada Press Association’s highest legislative priority in 2019 was improving government compliance with the state’s Public Records Act. The vessel for our aspirations was Senate Bill 287. The final version of SB 287 established penalties for local governments and state agencies that willfully violate the law; limited their use …
Read More »Award Winners to Present at NPA Convention
Journalists who won major awards in this year’s Nevada Press Association Better Newspaper and Magazine Contest will discuss their reporting and storytelling techniques in a special program that will be featured at the 2019 NPA Annual Convention and Awards Banquet. The Las Vegas Review-Journal and The Nevada Independent will organize …
Read More »Public Notice 101
Generally, a public notice (also called a legal ad) is placed with the classified section of a newspaper in the county of jurisdiction where the court action is taking place. Public notices in Nevada can be published only in newspapers that are qualified by state statute to run notices. Here …
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