A Clark County district court judge on Friday denied two attempts by Republicans to overturn the Nov. 3 election results in Nevada’s most populous county.
Shea Johnson
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.
The closely contested race for Clark County Commission District C was thrust front and center this week into the deeply partisan attacks on election integrity.
The Clark County Commission made it more difficult Tuesday for third-party food delivery companies to evade a 15 percent cap on how much they can charge restaurants.
The number of election discrepancies surpassed the razor-thin margin of victory in contest between Ross Miller and Stavros Anthony.
The tragedy on Nov. 21, 1980, killed 87 and injured hundreds more. It also ushered in fire safety reforms and greatly expanded the Las Vegas legal community.
The City Council banned feeding birds and other animals at city parks. Violators could be fined $10.
Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria will have the last release of unofficial results Friday morning.
North Las Vegas will close its City Hall for two weeks in response to a surge in COVID-19 cases in the state.
President-elect Joe Biden maintained his lead in the presidential race in Nevada.
A Republican councilman leads a Democratic former Secretary of State by fewer than 2,200 votes. More results were expected Thursday.
Republican Las Vegas City Councilman Stavros Anthony led slightly over Secretary of State Ross Miller early Wednesday morning.
The resolution is symbolic, but commissioners expressed support for initiatives to dismantle racism where it exists.
Republican Clark County Commission candidate Stavros Anthony has returned campaign contributions from donors who gave him more money than allowed by state law.
The Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority board approved purchasing the 15-acre plot downtown for $3.9 million. It has competition.
The Clark County Commission next week will consider a resolution that declares racism to be a public health crisis, similar to a resolution passed by the Nevada Legislature in August.