The Clark County School District hasn’t actually come out and endorsed the idea of breaking up the district, but its actions and performance standards make a powerful case for the idea.
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.
As they did in 2018, some member of the Laxalt family have penned a letter endorsing somebody other than their relative, Adam Laxalt, who is running for U.S. Senate as a Republican.
Former university regent James Dean Leavitt is challenging appointed Judge Maria Gall for the District Court Department 9 seat.
In Nevada, which has a history of close statewide elections, Democrats are struggling to get their message across to voters who are distracted by inflation and high prices.
Some political ads are nice, some are negative, but a recent one from Zach Conine hits all the right notes.
Currently, City Council members in Henderson are elected by all voters in the city. But under Question 1 on the November ballot, they could soon be elected only by voters in each of the four wards.
U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto criticized her Republican opponent, Adam Laxalt, as the two tout dueling law enforcement endorsements on the campaign trail.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Joey Gilbert is backing his primary rival Joe Lombardo after initially refusing to conceded the race and suing over the results.
Some recent lapses in public accountability lead to the question: Where are the local elected officials who are supposed to be overseeing the bureaucracy?
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.
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