Annie In the News

(Sam Metz | Associated Press) – Long-simmering disputes over coronavirus restrictions in the Nevada statehouse boiled over on Thursday when the Democratic majority voted to punish Republican lawmakers for refusing to comply with rules in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Under rules announced Wednesday, people in the statehouse can roam the building without […]

(Bill Dentzer | Las Vegas Review-Journal) – As bills moved haltingly through the Legislature on Thursday ahead of an end-of-week deadline for passage, the Assembly voted along party lines to sanction one of its own for flouting house rules on mask-wearing and social distancing on the floor. The censure, which muzzled the offending lawmaker and

Annie joined Gentry & Dawes on the “Breakfast Club” to discuss her successful efforts to force Democrats and the Legislative Counsel Bureau to follow the revised CDC guidelines and cancel the mask requirement inside the Nevada Legislature’s building. “She’s a fighter. She’s really got gumption.”

(NevadaConservative.com) – If you have been following Nevada politics for any amount of time, you’re aware of Annie Black. The now freshmen Assemblywoman from Mesquite has been making quite the name for herself in state politics. Recently she dared to go maskless on the Assembly floor even after being warned by House Majority Leader Frierson

(Tabitha Mueller | Nevada Independent) – Every year, former prisoners participate in state-sponsored reentry programs and receive aid to help them transition into life outside of incarceration, but that help is all for naught if they cannot find housing, Sen. Dina Neal (D-Las Vegas) said. Her comments came Thursday during a heated Assembly Government Affairs Committee

  “Here’s somebody who’s fighting for you.  And we thank you for that, Annie, because you’re a lone voice in a lot of cases.”

Here’s a report by Riley Snyder of the Nevada Independent on my efforts to reopen the People’s House to the people… The effort to reopen the doors of the Legislature to the public has finally moved beyond rhetoric and press releases. After giving a floor speech denouncing the continued closure of the building on Tuesday,

(Steve Sebelius | Las Vegas Review-Journal) – Assemblywoman Annie Black, R-Mesquite, staged a bit of political performance art on the Assembly floor Tuesday. Rising during a portion of the agenda reserved for “remarks from the floor,” Black recounted how the Legislature needed to allow people into its building on Carson Street despite ongoing COVID-19 restrictions,

Annie talks with Kevin about her efforts to reopen the Legislature to the public, her bill to terminate Gov. Steve Sisolak’s “Declaration of Emergency” and her other pending BDR’s (bill draft requests)…

(Katelyn Newberg and Bill Dentzer | Las Vegas Review-Journal) – As the state pulls back from the most stringent of pandemic-driven restrictions on public gatherings, Republican lawmakers in both houses have been agitating for the currently-closed legislative building to be reopened to the public. They did so again on the Assembly floor Tuesday, when Assemblywoman