Senator Steven Horsford

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Maneuvering now, planning ahead

Horsford trying to give tax changes a jump for 2011
Las Vegas Sun
By: David McGrath Schwartz
May 19, 2009

Carson City — Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford said Monday that he has given up on broadening the state’s tax structure this session by gaining approval for a corporate income tax, but he wants to enter the 2011 session fully armed to enact real tax reform.

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Senate panel advances initiative to reopen F Street

Las Vegas Sun
By: Cy Ryan
May 15, 2009

CARSON CITY – A Senate committee approved a plan calling for the city of Las Vegas and the state Transportation Department to join to re-open F Street in West Las Vegas, to allow the residents of the predominately black neighborhood a link to downtown and to the planned Union Park development.

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F Street: Taking on the Road to Nowhere

Senator proposes city pay to get West Las Vegas reconnected
Las Vegas Sun
By: Sam Skolnik
May 14, 2009

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The West Las Vegas group opposing the permanent closure of F Street has in the past six months held countless neighborhood meetings, worked the media and government officials, and marched on the Strip.

But until state Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, D-Las Vegas, recently entered the picture, nothing seemed to get the attention of the state and city officials it blames for closing the street connecting the historically black neighborhood to Union Park, where the city plans to build a new downtown.

Horsford has introduced an amendment to mandate that the Las Vegas Redevelopment Agency foot a bill as large as $70 million to reopen the street. Horsford, who grew up in West Las Vegas and whose legislative district includes the area, said the closure at the city’s behest would continue a decades-long pattern of disregard and mistreatment of the neighborhood, near downtown.

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