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Nevadas 2nd Congressional District encompasses the northern part of the silver state including Carson City and the counties Churchill, Douglas, Elko, Eureka, Humbolt, Lander, Pershing, Storey and Washoe, as well as a part of Lyon County.

The district has never sent a Democrat to Washington. However, there are currently seven Democrats vying for the job, opposing Republican incumbent Mark Amodei.

The candidates are as follows:

Patricia Ackerman has lived in Minden for 18 years. She was raised in Pennsylvania by post-war immigrants who came to America after fleeing the Nazis. Her platforms include income inequality, ending Citizens Untied, rural access to healthcare and medicare for all, lowering prescription drug prices, climate change and clean energy, and more.

To learn all about Ackermans platforms, click here.

Ed Cohen was born inCleveland, Ohio. He attended Ohio University for his undergraduate degree and the University of Southern California for his graduate degree. He began working as a marketing and communications director for a nonprofit in the justice field in 2016. From 1988 to 2016, he worked as a magazine writer and editor and communication manager and director for college and universities. From 1981 to 1987 he worked as a journalist. His policies include removing President Trump from office, immigration reform, a womans right to choose, public service campaigns to end gun violence, fighting climate change, and more.

To learn all about Cohens platforms, click here.

Reynaldo Hernandez was born in California in 1966 and his parents moved the family to Reno in 1970. He has worked in the grocery industry for 36 years.

Hernandez does not have a campaign website or social media. However, he submitted an opinion piece to the Reno Gazette Journal on May 14, which you can read here.

Clint Koble was born in Harvey, North Dakota. He received a bachelor's degree in political science and one in history from the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, in 1974. Koble's professional experience includes working as a general manager and executive director. He is a certified speaker and has been associated with the Washoe County Democratic Party, the Nevada State Democratic Party, the Sierra Club, the NAACP, the Alliance for Retired Americans, Planned Parenthood, and the Nevada Conservation League. His platform includes protecting public lands, water rights, rural access to education and healthcare, Tribal issues, affordable healthcare, common sense gun legislation, and more.

To learn more about Kobles platforms, click here.

Ian Luetkehans lives in Reno and went to Reno High School. He does not have a campaign site or social media.

Steven Schiffman earned a B.A. from the University of Miami, a J.D. from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in 1983, and an L.L.M. from the London School of Economics in 1984. He works as a rule of law attorney and international journalist. He has worked with the United States Agency for International Development and the United Nations Development program. Schiffman is a former volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps in Micronesia. He is a member of the New York Bar, the District of Columbia Bar, and the American Bar Association. His platforms include climate change, immigration reform, agricultural and farming policy, gun safety, public education, veterans and more.

To learn about Schiffmans policies, click here.

Rick Shepherd grew up in Northern Nevada and received his degree from UNR, where he later ended up teaching. He started a company called Synux Technologies in 2002. His platform includes issues such as climate change, universal healthcare, raising wages, and more.

For a full explanation of his platform, click here.

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Seven Democrats run in the primary for Nevada's Second Congressional seat - Carson Now

One of the biggest economic challenges currently facing the American economy might well be an even bigger one after the COVID-19 pandemic: the decline in American entrepreneurship. As John Dearie of the Center for American Entrepreneurship wrote earlier this year:

After remaining remarkably consistent for decades, the number of new businesses launched in the United States peaked in 2006 and then began a precipitous decline a decline accelerated by the Great Recession. From 2002 to 2006, the economy produced an average of 524,000 new employer firms each year. Since 2009, however, the number of new business launched annually has dropped to about 400,000, meaning the United States currently faces a startup deficit of 100,000 new firms every year and a million missing startups since 2009.

Even more alarming, economists Robert Litan and Ian Hathaway have shown that rates of entrepreneurship the fraction of all U.S. businesses that are new have fallen near a four-decade low, and that this decline is occurring in all 50 states, in all but a handful of the 360 metro areas they examined, and across a broad range of industry sectors. The U.S. economy is becoming less entrepreneurial, more concentrated among large incumbent companies, less dynamic.

This issue of startups and economic dynamism is one Ive addressed many times over the years, including in this 2014 podcast with startup expert Ian Hathaway. During that conversation, I asked how policymakers could promote entrepreneurship. Here was his answer:

One in the short term is immigration reform. We know that immigrants are twice as likely to launch new firms, and thats in all sectors, and in high tech its particularly elevated, so we know thats something that will push the entrepreneurship rate up higher.

Longer term, education its one of the factors that in studies of what drives regional variation, entrepreneurship rates, its the thing that keeps showing up. And this is at a time when a lot of states have had to cut back on education because of balanced budget requirements and things of that nature. So these are two things that I would advocate for.

All of that still works today. And let me add that Dearies CEA has quite a few policy ideas to boost entrepreneurship, including reforms for taxes, regulation, and immigration.

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Boosting American entrepreneurship will more important than ever in coming years - American Enterprise Institute

Lyla Wasz-Piper 20 and Kennedi Williams-Libert 20 have received the 2020 Outstanding Clinical Student Team Award from the Clinical Legal Education Association. They were recognized for their unique partnership and exemplary teamwork during their time as student attorneys at the Criminal Justice Institute.

I have never seen a student team work in such a collaboratively succinct, seamless manner to zealously and skillfully provide client-centered representation to indigent and maligned clients said Professor Dehlia Umunna, clinical professor of law and faculty deputy director of CJI.

The award is presented annually to one student or student team from each U.S. law school for outstanding clinical coursework and contributions to the clinical community. Students are nominated by full-time clinical faculty at each law school.

Both Wasz-Piper and Williams-Libert joined CJI in the fall of 2019 to gain experience in the courtroom, to work with mentors who would ultimately make them better advocates, and to directly serve those most in need of representation.

The work they were given could be seen as daunting. They were assigned an assault and battery case with serious allegations of domestic violence. During the course of the semester, Wasz-Piper and Williams-Libert thoroughly investigated the case, interviewed witnesses, wrote and filed pre-trial and trial motions, and prepared their client to testify.

Being in a legal environment where Lyla and I got to work together was so meaningful to my HLS experience because I dont know that I can point to another instance, aside from extra-curriculars, where a classmate and I got to put our talent on the line all in one go, together said Williams-Libert.

Wasz-Piper echoed the sentiment and noted how their ability to connect offered a space for mutual growth.

One of the things I valued the most in our teamwork was that we built a level of trust that allowed us to critique each others work in a way that never made us feel defensive, she said, and that ultimately served the client.

Just weeks out from trial, they were spending 12-hour days in the clinic office and were in constant communication, something that carried over into the courtroom.

Kennedi and I spent so much time together that we could sense each others emotions and needs. During trial, she could turn around and look at me and I would know she needed a specific document while she was crossing a witness. Or I would turn around while [delivering my] closing and see her and it would give me that moment of inspiration said Wasz-Piper.

Credit: Photo courtesy of Lyla Wasz-Piper

After a short deliberation, the judge delivered a not guilty verdict that was witnessed not only by the clients family but also by the many CJI students who were in attendance. Wasz-Piper and Kennedi-Williams both saw the kind of support from their classmates as an extension of their partnership and representative of CJIs clinical teamwork.

To hear the sigh of relief from the client, see the tears of joy in the clients mothers eyes and receive tight hugs from her was inexplicably rewarding. I was thoroughly impressed with the kindness that was central to their team. There was never a harsh word, nor any tension, said Umunna. They were fully focused on securing the clients freedom and lifting each other up the entire time.

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Having grown up in Brooklyn, New York, Williams-Libert notes her experiences as an Afro-Caribbean-American woman and her exposure to politically and socially active communities shaped her interest in fighting for representation of marginalized groups in legal forums.

During her time at HLS, she was a member of the archival research team with the Harvard Blackletter Law Journal, formally the Harvard Journal on Racial and Ethnic Justice, and she worked on preserving institutional knowledge, as well as documenting the impacts of black legal scholarship at HLS and beyond. In her capacity as an executive article editor, she helped devise themes for volumes, select articles, and helped expand the breadth of authors included in the journal.

She co-founded the Caribbean Law Students Associationto promote legal scholarship and to leverage her role as a Harvard Law student to create a space for other students of the Caribbean diaspora. She served as president of the organization during the 2019-2020 academic year. Williams-Libert has also served as the chair of community outreach for the Black Law Students Association.

Williams-Libert spent her 1L summer as a judicial intern in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of New York. Her 2L summer was spent at Davis Polk & Wardwell, where she will return after graduation.

Wasz-Piper recalls her first exposure to prisoners rights and civil rights cases during a college internship with Uptown Peoples Law Center and says it was one of the factors that drew her to want to pursue a career in criminal justice.

Beyond her clinical placement at CJI, Wasz-Piper was also a student in the Crimmigration Clinic, where she advocated for a clients release in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, drafted an amicus brief in a case in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and wrote a bond hearing letter for a client who was eventually granted asylum.

She was also very involved in the Prison Legal Assistance Project, serving as a parole coordinator her 2L year and as executive director her 3L year. At PLAP, she represented clients in disciplinary hearings, parole hearings, and emergency parole revocation hearings. At both PLAP and CJI, Wasz-Piper was a mentor to her fellow students, her guidance spanning not only clinical work but also post-law school careers in public-interest.

During her 1L summer, Wasz-Piper focused on criminal and immigration reform legislation at the House Judiciary Committee, and she spent her 2L summer at the Legal Aid Society in New York, focused on public defense litigation.

After graduation, she will join First Defense Legal Aid, in Chicago, as a Public Service Venture Fund Fellow, focusing on civil rights work and in particular on police brutality. Wasz-Piper also plans to serve as a law clerk in the Northern District of Illinois in 2021.

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Lyla Wasz-Piper and Kennedi Williams-Libert receive 2020 CLEA Outstanding Clinical Student Team Award - Harvard Law School News

Indigo Girls | Look Long | (Rounder)

4.5 stars out of five

The Indigo Girls have always been the essence of a populist band. Their legion of followers are rabidly devoted, reflecting a bond that runs deeper than the music itself and suggests an actual communal connection. Theres no need to tweak their template, although with five years since their last album and 31 since their first, one has to admire their determination in stay true to their MO. Amongst several standouts, the reggae flavored title track and the bubbly yet infectious twosome Favorite Flavor and Muster could be perceived as a slight change in tack, but given their affirmative anthems and positive perspective theres every reason to believe that their devotees will be well pleased with the results. The uplifting anthem When We Were Writers, the searing stance of the absolute rocker Change My Heart (read our Behind the Song of Change My Heart) and the soaring crescendo of the dynamic and demonstrative closer Sorrow and Joy a not-so-distant cousin to their classic Galileo ought to be enough to entice fans to sing along once the pair are able to return to the road.

Indeed, with few exceptions, Look Long comes across as a decidedly upbeat album, one that still shares sentiment and expresses the pairs need to share passion and purpose. If theres any change at all, its found in the sonic tapestry that embellishes these songs. Credit producer John Reynolds, who recorded the women at Peter Gabriels Real World Studio, for a steady presence behind the boards a place he last occupied when he was overseeing the Girls landmark Come On Now Social. Reynolds allows the music to resonate with enough of a luster and sheen to ensure these buoyant melodies will come fully to the fore. Only enough, that additive also helps the album attain a looser feeling than the Indigos have expressed before.

Of course, Ray and Saliers have never demurred when it comes to expressing both creativity and conviction, especially when it comes to causes relating to LGBT rights, political positioning, immigration reform, education, death penalty reform, and sustainability in Native communities.

And yet, their noble aspirations aside, titling the lead track Shit Kickin does take a bit of chutzpah all on its own.

Thats an additive the Indigo Girls have never found in short supply throughout their 35-year career. Ironically though, the most assertive offering in the entire set may be one of its sweetest and most sedate as well. Country Radio, a song by Saliers, reflects the essence of desire and dedication. It finds the two harmonizing to a lyric that Saliers says is essentially autobiographical. Im just a gay kid who loves country radio, she sings, and given that dedication to the cause, the line isnt shocking at all. They have much to be proud of, not the least of which is reflected by this decidedly farsighted Look Long.

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The Indigo Girls Share an Expansive View With Aptly Titled Look Long - American Songwriter

The Liberal MLAs are set to shift from collaborative players to critical ones.

Sonny Gallant, leader of the Third Party, says the Liberal caucus is withdrawing from direct participation in decision-making and input with the governing Conservatives and Official Opposition Green Party.

Gallant, in an opinion piece penned to The Guardian, states elected members have two primary roles: representing constituents and holding government accountable.

Premier Dennis King has won praise for governing in a strong spirit of collaboration with the Greens and the Liberals since winning a minority government in April 2019.

The three parties had appeared to be working particularly well together over the past three months to find the best approaches to deal with the ongoing pandemic.

Gallant says the province found itself in a "situation we had never been in before'' in March, and the six Liberal MLAs saw the need to work with the other two parties to best address the COVID-19 crisis.

However, he says the Liberal caucus is now stepping out of that rather friendly, cozy relationship. Time now, he adds, to start suggesting ways government can do things differently.

"We just felt as a group and as a team that we change our approach,"he told The Guardian late Wednesday afternoon.

Gallant says the Liberal caucus plans to take on a more direct role in making sure that the province is ready for a potential second wave of COVID-19.

Islanders deserve to know that we have a good stockpile of personal protective equipment,"he states in the opinion piece.

"They also need to see a plan that will deal with the backlog of health care services that has built up and that safe steps are being taken to care for a potential round of patients affected by the virus."

Green Leader Peter Bevan-Baker says he is disappointed, but not surprised, by the Liberals looking to rock the boat rather than paddle along in unison.

Bevan-Baker suggests the Liberal caucus appears to be returning to the old, more combative way of doing politics.

He believes, though, it is entirely possible to hold government to account while constructively and co-operatively working together to get legislation enacted.

I really feel it is a shame that the Liberals feel that they can no longer contribute to the collaborative model that we have been pioneering here on Prince Edward Island,"says Bevan-Baker.

He says the collaborative approach to P.E.I. politics for more than a full year has been successful in advancing an agenda that benefits all Islanders.

He adds that in the past on P.E.I., the Liberals and Conservatives would simply take turns waiting for their turn to govern.

Bevan-Baker says he does not know the key to the Green party forming the next government under this current atmosphere of collaboration.

"That is a great question, and I wish I knew the answer to that,"he said in a telephone interview with The Guardian Wednesday.

He says he and his fellow Green MLAs are always ready to stand up and offer critical input.

He adds his party will have plenty of opportunity to distinguish itself from the Liberals and Conservatives in the months ahead.

Gallant, meanwhile, raises concern that the Greens will ease up on criticizing government in favour of seeking deals and accommodations that meet their political agenda".

Government House Leader Sidney MacEwen was contacted by The Guardian for this story but did not return the call by deadline.

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