One sect of the Clark County GOP recalled several of the party’s trustees Tuesday night while a competing sect held a new election for party leadership at a separate meeting.
Shea Johnson
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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.
A contingent of neighbors in the southern Las Vegas Valley oppose the latest project that would creep into their county-designated rural neighborhood preservation.
A majority of the Clark County Commission took a formal stand Tuesday against COVID-19 misinformation, declaring it a public health crisis amid concerns from other lawmakers that doing so might agitate a deep division within Southern Nevada.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal was named the state’s best newspaper and best news website and won top individual honors at the Nevada Press Foundation Awards of Excellence dinner Saturday night in Reno.
Lawmakers are expected to vote Tuesday on whether to declare COVID-19 misinformation a public health crisis.
Molly Taylor pleaded no contest Monday to a misdemeanor for failing to submit the final recall petition to the city clerk’s office.
Molly Taylor, founder of the Expel Michele committee, is scheduled to go to trial Monday for not revealing Fiore’s list of detractors.
Jenna Waltho, a county planning commissioner appointed by Michael Naft, is perhaps an unlikely challenger to Commissioner Justin Jones’ seat.
Its designation by the City Council on Sept. 1 marked the first addition to the register since 2016, according to city records.
The wide disparity between the demand and available resources underscores that community needs remain sky high nearly two years into the public health crisis.
“We didn’t change,” said Kelvin Watson, the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District’s newly hired executive director. “More people just became aware of what the library can and could offer.”
Senate Bill 303 is meant to provide guidance on how to avoid becoming a victim to unlicensed contractors.
City says that low-income and unemployed residents will be prioritized.
A City Council designee lacked power to authorize the civil penalties, judge rules. City lawmakers OK’d appealing the decision to the Nevada Supreme Court.
The group says it plans to upgrade and expand the 11-year-old site, which features six replica professional baseball stadiums.
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