The longtime government official will be overseeing federal funds and coordinating disease response among state and local agencies.
Bill Dentzer
Review-Journal Capital Bureau
Email: bdentzer@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (775) 461-0661
X: @dentzernews
Based in Reno, Bill Dentzer covers government and politics and related state news out of the Review-Journal’s capital bureau in Carson City. He joined the RJ in October 2018 after similar assignments at the Salt Lake Tribune in Utah and the Idaho Statesman in Boise. He earlier covered state and local government in his home state of New York, where he graduated from Hamilton College.
The conservative group True the Vote and other plaintiffs are once again suing in federal court to block the state’s all-mail primary election, even as voting is currently underway.
Democrats Liz Becker and Ron Bilodeau are fighting for the chance to challenge incumbent Republican Scott Hammond, who is seeking his third four-year term in the northwest Las Vegas Senate District 18.
Republicans Edgar Miron Galindo and Joshua Dowden are challenging appointed incumbent Democratic state Sen. Dallas Harris in Senate District 11.
Businessman Donnie Gibson is running against former Assemblyman Richard McArthur in Assembly District 4. The winner will face Democratic incumbent Connie Munk.
Republicans and Democrats are seeking the Assembly seat left vacant by William McCurdy II, the state Democratic Party chairman who is running for the Clark County Commission.
Democrat James Fennell is challenging longtime Democratic Assemblywoman Maggie Carlton, who is running her final race to cap a career in Carson City that has spanned 24 years.
Mesquite Councilman Annie Black is challenging Assemblyman Chris Edwards from the right, saying the three-term incumbent isn’t conservative enough.
Assemblyman Gregory Hafen II, who was appointed to the Assembly District 36 seat, is seeking to be elected in his own right against Las Vegas chiropractor Joe Bradley, who ran unsuccessfully for the post in 2018.
Gov. Steve Sisolak on Monday signed an executive order to ease the rules for hiring in the state’s overtaxed Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.
The group Fair Maps Nevada, which is circulating an initiative petition to turn the redistricting process over to an independent commission, is suing the state in federal court to get more time and permission to collect signatures electronically.
Nevada will begin to emerge from its pandemic-triggered statewide business shutdown at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, Gov. Steve Sisolak announced Thursday.
U.S. District Court Judge Miranda Du rejected a request for a preliminary injunction sought by a conservative group that alleged conducting the June 9 primary election by mail could lead to voter fraud.
Gov. Steve Sisolak unveiled “Nevada United: Roadmap to Recovery,” the state’s plan to reopen the economy during a news conference Thursday.
State and local officials have decided the June 9 primary election will be conducted almost entirely by mail rather than in-person voting.
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