From lawsuits over polling sites to hand recounts of ballots that stretched into the next day, Nevada’s caucus has had plenty of drama since the state took an early spot on the nominating calendar in 2008.
Steve Sebelius
Politics and Government Editor
Email: ssebelius@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 383-0253
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.
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Nevada’s 2020 Democratic caucus will be different from past years: There are more candidates, there’s early voting and President Trump will help drive enthusiasm and turnout.
One of the two ballot initiatives proposed by the Clark County Education Association — a 1.5 percentage point increase in the sales tax — might be a hard sell for Nevada voters, who have rejected other taxes designed to support education in the past.
A Republican lawsuit against two taxes passed in 2019 has forced the issue of whether the Legislative Counsel Bureau, which advises the Legislature as an institution, is entitled to speak for individual lawmakers in court.
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar said in an interview Saturday that her record of getting cross-party support and her style of governing to address common needs are strengths in her bid to become the nation’s first female president.
When big donors make inappropriate demands in exchange for their philanthropy, university regents need to refuse the money on principle.
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak Thursday announced he’d elevated Public Utilities Commissioner Hayley Williamson to the three-member board’s chairwoman.
It took Nevada Democrats 20 years to win the governor’s mansion in Carson City and both houses of the Legislature at the same time. They don’t want to give up the power of redistricting now.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, in an interview following his address to a UNITE HERE town hall at the Culinary Union Local 226 hall in Las Vegas, said he was not going to pledge to serve only a single term if elected.
Las Vegas Golden Knights right-winger Ryan Reaves stars in an over-the-top ad campaign that memorably reminds residents to re-set their sprinkler clocks — or else!
Gov. Steve Sisolak Thursday talked about reforming state boards, getting more independence in the marijuana testing business and adopting a more holistic approach to dealing with homelessness in a wide-ranging interview reflecting on his first year in office.
A politically active North Las Vegas pastor has filed a lawsuit seeking to force a re-write of a petition to amend the constitution to create an independent redistricting commission that would take the power of drawing political boundaries in Nevada away from the Legislature.
The Clark County Education Association is planning a pair of ballot initiatives proposing a $1 billion tax increase in 2020, but there are other, more trenchant questions about Nevada schools that should also be addressed.
Even if national media or political pundits fail to mention Nevada’s February caucus, candidates and their campaigns know where we fall on the nominating calendar.
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