Some recent lapses in public accountability lead to the question: Where are the local elected officials who are supposed to be overseeing the bureaucracy?
Steve Sebelius
Politics and Government Editor
Email: ssebelius@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 383-0253
Twitter: @SteveSebelius
Steve Sebelius oversees the Review-Journal's Washington and Carson City bureaus, as well as the reporting team covering local governments in Clark County. He also writes a weekly politics column for the Sunday Viewpoints section. Sebelius previously worked for the RJ between 2000 and 2017. He returned to the RJ in March 2019. Sebelius has been the on-air political analyst for KLAS-TV Channel 8 for 10 years. He also has co-hosted “PoliticsNow,” Nevada’s only political television program, on the channel since 2015.
Doubling down on a campaign attack that’s already been disproven is a mysterious strategy.
Red-light cameras were banned in Nevada in 1999, and for good reason. Now a legislative committee wants to bring them back, but just for school zones.
Polls in the races at the top of Nevada’s ballot show the races are too close to call, in a state where no statewide candidate has won by more than 50,000 votes in the last three cycles.
The murder of Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German had nothing to do with politics, but some partisans are wrongly trying to imply that it does.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo has a new TV ad in his race for governor, but he needs a bolder way to answer the 3 a.m. phone call.
It’s still hard for me to believe that I won’t ever talk to Jeff again about a story or trade gossip about a politician. It’s hard for me to think about how the city has lost one of its most important truth-tellers.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo wants to give state cops a raise now, something Gov. Steve Sisolak has promised to do once the Legislature convenes in February.
Ads targeting both Gov. Steve Sisolak and Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo take some liberties with the truth.
The campaign of Gov. Steve Sisolak has purchased Google ads that post an ad attacking Joe Lombardo when people search for terms related to abortion, which has become an issue in the governor’s race.
A Clark County judge has ruled that private email sent by Sheriff Joe Lombardo on a department-issued phone are not subject to disclosure under the state’s public records law.
Disgraced former Las Vegas Councilman Ricki Barlow objected when a Review-Journal columnist reminded him of his criminal past on Twitter.
The Vegas Chamber endorsed incumbent Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak for re-election on Tuesday, spurning Republican hopeful Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo.
Citing “unforeseen circumstances” and a desire to spend more time with her family, Nevada Supreme Court Justice Abbi Silver tendered her resignation to Gov. Steve Sisolak on Friday.
Although Reno attorney Joey Gilbert says the results of the June primary for governor were mathematically impossible, a judge dismissed those allegations, affirming Sheriff Joe Lombardo’s victory.
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