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Louisiana teachers' union concerned about educators' future; Supreme Court hears arguments in Trump immunity case; court issues restraining order against fracking waste-storage facility; landmark NE agreement takes a proactive approach to CO2 pipeline risks.

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Speaker Johnson accuses demonstrating students of getting support from Hamas. TikTok says it'll challenge the ban. And the Supreme Court dives into the gray area between abortion and pregnancy healthcare, and into former President Trump's broad immunity claims.

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The urban-rural death divide is widening for working-age Americans, many home internet connections established for rural students during COVID have been broken, and a new federal rule aims to put the "public" back in public lands.

NV Recognizes Suffragist Pioneer In "National Women's History Month"

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Tuesday, March 4, 2014   

CARSON CITY, Nev. - A person instrumental in helping Nevada women gain the right to vote is being honored as part of National Women's History Month in March. Mona Reno, chairwoman of the Nevada Women's History Project, said Anne Martin and her colleague suffragists worked tirelessly to help women in the Silver State gain the right to vote in 1914.

"They went out on horseback and they went out in little Model Ts. They went to every ranch they could find in the rural counties and spoke with people individually, because in Nevada in those days communication was face to face," Reno said.

Women in Nevada and several other Western states had the right to vote before Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920. That amendment makes it illegal to deny anyone the right to vote based on gender.

Martin had the task of convincing men to vote "yes" on a ballot measure that would give women the right to vote, Reno explained. She added that men in the West may have supported women's suffrage because their wives worked hard on the frontier and were considered equal partners.

"These women were working side by side with their men, so men had a more equal idea of them," she said. "That's why some historians believe it worked earlier in the West than it did in the middle of the country and the East."

Reno said Martin, who was well educated, went on to work on the Women's Suffrage issue at the federal level. She also founded the History Department at the University of Nevada-Reno and was the state's first female tennis champion.




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