“My hope is that the private industry rises to the top, that they’re allowed to stay open and take care of these families that are paycheck to paycheck,” the mayor said.
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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.
Clark County has canceled its Commission meetings through the remainder of the month “out of an abundance of caution” amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Clark County is closing all park and recreation facilities on Monday because of continuing concerns about the spread of coronavirus.
Ten hopefuls officially declared candidacies in District D and seven filed to run in District C – seats currently held by term-limited Democratic Commissioners Lawrence Weekly and Larry Brown, respectively.
The Clark County Commission and Las Vegas City Council jointly met to deliberate plans for the future of a medical and academic hub where both governments say they have made significant investments.
Five senior centers in Las Vegas, and part of a community center that serves seniors, will close indefinitely beginning Saturday, city officials announced Friday.
Federal and local officials are urging people to take the census now, avoiding the need for volunteers to later come into contact with the households that failed to fill out forms or did so incompletely.
“If anybody wanted to take a vacation now, because there’s no place to go, it should be here,” Goodman said in a lengthy interview with the Review-Journal. “It should be here and I can’t believe we’re not being more proactive.”
Census 2020 officially begins Thursday, when residents across the U.S. will start to receive invitations to respond to the population count that holds broad implications for billions of dollars in federal funding.
Las Vegas and Clark County officials say they are prepared to deal with an outbreak of new coronavirus if one occurs.
More than 60 candidates filed for office on Monday, the first day candidates could submit paperwork for the 2020 election in Nevada.
The Las Vegas City Council is updating its master plan as it looks to more high-rise development and 300,000 new residents by the year 2050.
The candidate filing period begins Monday for Clark County Commission and other state and local offices, and will last through March 13.
Under the new Initial Appearance Court program, defendants who would have waited sometimes four days to see a judge have been appearing in court in as little as 12 hours.
