Is extending an existing tax the same as a tax increase? That question has been answered differently by legislative lawyers in past years as opposed to this one.
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.
Adam Laxalt’s Morning in Nevada PAC is teaming up with the American Conservative Union to hold a western version of the popular CPAC conference in September.
The names of retired public employees would be public under an amendment to Senate Bill 224, but other information critical in guarding against abuse would be made confidential.
Here’s an idea for a new rule: State lawmakers can take up ceremonial bills and resolutions only after they’ve passed all policy bills and budgets.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford has signed on to a nationwide lawsuit filed by 42 other states and Puerto Rico against a long list of pharmaceutical companies, alleging price fixing and market manipulation that increased prices of common generic drugs.
Of all the jobs available to disgraced former Las Vegas Councilman and admitted felon Ricki Barlow, City Hall lobbyist should not be one of them.
Republican-led recalls against three female state senators in 2017 have led Democrats to change recall rules to make it harder to remove elected officials in Nevada.
On a sunny, windy Monday in the desert outside Boulder City, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee talked about solar power as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Can newspapers save democracy, or is model for the media forever broken? Panelists at the 2019 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books debated that very question.
Newly announced presidential candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., charted a decidedly moderate course Monday as he unveiled his candidacy to a town hall meeting of the UNLV Young Democrats.
What hurts kids more: Being held back in third-grade because they couldn’t pass a state reading test, or a lifetime of troubles because they don’t have the skills they need?
Switch city elections to the even-year cycle to increase participation and save money.
Meanwhile, total voter turnout for the primary was the second-worst in the last 20 years, with just 8.8 percent of all eligible voters casting ballots in early voting, by mail and on Election Day.
A bill to amend the state Public Records Law proposed by state Sen. Julia Ratti, D-Sparks, could end up making information about every government employee secret.
Henderson Mayor Debra March announced Monday she’d reimbursed her campaign for a trip to Panama detailed in a Review-Journal investigation of her spending published last week.
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