Attorneys for the Metropolitan Police Department say emails Sheriff Joe Lombardo sent to his political consultants on a department cellphone are not public records.
Steve Sebelius
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.
Although she didn’t get a major police union endorsement this year, U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto isn’t anti-cop.
Democrats are leading in major Nevada races, but a new 8NewsNow/Emerson College poll shows the margins are close, and economic concerns are top-of-mind for Nevada voters.
The Supreme Court’s most recent turn — its most conservative in decades — is the result of Republicans playing the long judicial game.
Joey Gilbert isn’t the first Nevada politician to claim voter fraud in his loss to Joe Lombardo. Those claims have a long history in the Silver State.
By upholding a law that allows petitioners to withdraw initiatives even after they’ve qualified, the Nevada Supreme Court has opened the door to a dubious policy.
Under a proposed constitutional amendment, voters could cast a ballot in any primary election, regardless of their political party. General elections would be changed to ranked-choice voting instead of winner-take-all.
Abortion laws may be cemented into statute, but politicians can still argue over the issue, as this week showed.
A divided Nevada Supreme Court upheld an initiative that could radically change the way elections are conducted in Nevada, but rejected another that would have provided for education accounts that could have been used at private schools.
Republican secretary of state candidate Jim Marchant says fraud and a cabal decides elections in Nevada, but there’s no proof to support that idea.
Two top Democrats on the ballot in November are telling us the issues they worry about most, with news releases designed to shore up their positions.
New interim university system chancellor Dale Erquiaga may be from the north, but Southern Nevadans should give him a chance in his new job.
Gov. Steve Sisolak passes his first test, Joe Lombardo needs to shore up his support and Danny Tarkanian loses again.
A former Nevada state senator says ex-Attorney General Adam Laxalt acted on behalf of his donors and was disinterested in issues during his single term.
Henderson, North Las Vegas and Boulder City will get new mayors, according to results from Tuesday’s primary election.