The sale of the late Tony Hsieh’s real estate empire could prove a catalyst to build on what Hsieh started, and help downtown improve even more.
Shea Johnson
Local Government reporter
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Shea joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal in November 2018 to cover City Hall and Clark County. He previously spent six years at the Desert Dispatch and Daily Press newspapers located in the High Desert of Southern California, where he covered politics at city, county and state levels. Shea has won three California Newspaper Publishers Association awards for his work. In 2018 he was a California Journalism Awards finalist for investigative reporting. He is an unapologetic Chicago sports fan, excluding only the White Sox.
“As a Las Vegas native, born and raised in the Historic Westside, it would be an honor and a privilege to lead the greatest city in America,” he wrote in an email to supporters Thursday.
Figures recently publicized by the city show that the new law penalized very few people in the first 12 months after its rollout.
A strike team led by the city of Las Vegas recently administered first doses at two housing complexes, representing its most direct effort to date to immunize the vulnerable.
A 55-year-old man went into a coma inside the city jail and never recovered, according to a federal lawsuit.
Cannabis dispensaries in Las Vegas will now be allowed to operate drive-thru windows, a move that follows other jurisdictions in Southern Nevada.
It is a form of hunting competition already barred by neighboring states that activists have castigated as “unethical,” “barbaric” and a “sick bloodsport.”
The county has agreed to pay $1.5 million as part of a broader settlement to resolve a federal lawsuit brought by DeMarlo Berry.
Although the HUNDRED Plan is not the first redevelopment plan for the Historic Westside neighborhood over the years, there is newfound optimism that real change is coming.
Clark County lawmakers adopted the county’s first-ever climate action plan on Tuesday, addressing everything from energy consumption to employee commuting.
Bicyclists in unincorporated Clark County will have the right to travel into the roadway under certain conditions, particularly when there is not a bike lane or shoulder to ride along.
The Clark County Commission Tuesday voted unanimously to rechristen McCarran International Airport for former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid despite opponents’ fears that the move would be politically divisive.
Vaccine doses have been frustratingly difficult for many older residents to obtain and off limits at this point to many of Nevada’s elders.
Access to immunizations is merely the newest public health predicament faced disproportionately by people of color.
City Manager Jorge Cervantes revealed that his intention is to have all remote-working employees called back to full-time, in-person work starting next month.
