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FILE - This Aug. 6, 2014 file photo shows the FAA tower then under construction at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. Nevada's next governor wants to rename the airport in Las Vegas after fellow Democrat and former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid. Governor-elect Steve Sisolak also wants to rename the Reno-Tahoe International Airport after Republican Paul Laxalt, a former Nevada governor and U.S. senator who died in Aug. 2018. (Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, File)

Sisolak wants to rename Reno airport after Paul Laxalt

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FILE - In this April, 1981 file photo, Senator Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.), appears on ABC's Good Morning America television show in Washington. Laxalt, the conservative Republican who rose to political power as a Nevada governor, U.S. senator and close ally to Ronald Reagan has died at age 96. A public relations firm says he died Monday, Aug. 6, 2018, at a health care facility in Virginia. (AP Photo, File)

Paul Laxalt, former Nevada governor, dies at 96

By REGINA GARCIA CANO - Associated Press

This photo taken July 1, 2007, shows junior Arinak Basque Dancer Landon Drake watching and waits with his stuffed bear on his back to dance during the 44th National Basque Festival at Elko City Park in Elko, Nev. Their numbers may be small, but Basques and their descendants have left an indelible mark on Nevada _ so much so that the theme of the 34th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko is “Basques &amp; Buckaroos: Herding Cultures of Basin, Range and Beyond.” “They really have played a huge role in the American West in ranching culture, in herding culture,” said Meg Glaser, artistic director of the Western Folklife Center, organizer of the six-day annual festival, which starts Monday. It’s a natural fit considering many Basques came to the West to work as sheepherders, just as they have for generations in the Basque country in the Pyrenees Mountains of southwestern Europe. Today, about 5,390 Basques live in Nevada, mostly in the central and northern parts. (Ross Andreson/The Daily Free Press via AP)

Basque culture leaves its mark on Nevada

By HEIDI KNAPP RINELLA - Associated Press

President Ronald Reagan meeting with Sen. Richard Schweiker in 1980. Associated Press photo

DAVID KEENE: Remembering Dick Schweiker

By David Keene - The Washington Times

Neena Laxalt leaves GOP; files as nonpartisan

By SANDRA CHEREB - Associated Press

Adam Laxalt announces run for Nevada AG

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press