The 36-foot high Tornado is the first slide of its kind in Las Vegas. It opened this weekend.
Three Republicans will square off in the primary for the right to represent their party in what could be one of the more competitive Assembly contests in this year’s general election. With two-term Assemblyman Cresent Hardy giving up his seat to run for Congress, there is no incumbent in District 19.
In Assembly District 21, two Republican legal minds are vying for the chance to run against Democrat incumbent Andy Eisen in the November election. Derek W. Armstrong and Andrew W. Coates will face off in the June 10 primary election to determine who will take on Eisen.
The primary for the GOP nomination in the Assembly District 22 race will likely determine the winner for the seat with no Democratic challenger. Registered Republicans hold a 41 percent-to-34 percent advantage over Democrats in the district, one of only seven Assembly districts in the county with a GOP advantage.
Republicans in Assembly District 29 will have to decide between Amy Groves and Stephen Silberkraus in the June 10 primary to determine who will represent the Grand Old Party in the Novemeber election. The June winner will face off against Democrat Lesley Cohen, a Henderson lawyer who was appointed in 2012 by the Clark County Commission after April Mastroluca resigned for family reasons.
Four experienced Democrats have joined the fight to fill the District 34 seat soon to be vacated by term-limited Assembly Majority Leader William Horne.
Two election challengers disagree with Clark County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani’s consistent vote against a sales tax increase as she runs for a third and final four-year term in District E.
Clark County Commissioner Susan Brager is running for a third and final four-year term in a crowded field with three opponents also seeking the Democratic nomination. Brager’s challengers in the primary are Susan Bonaventura, Ellen Nakamura and former state senator Mike Schneider. Two Republicans, Joe Krathwohl and Mitchell Tracy, are seeking the GOP nod.
The race for the Clark County Commission District G seat has attracted a candidate who stood before commissioners a year ago and pleaded with them to not abolish his office.
As teenagers in 2001, brothers Kia and Sherveen Javadi started selling thermal grease on eBay and to classmates at Advanced Technologies Academy. They invested every dollar they earned in computer parts, and started to grow a business in their parents’ Las Vegas home.
Incumbent Clark County Clerk Diana Alba dropped out of the Democratic primary race in March citing family illness, leaving candidates Lynn Goya and Louis DeSalvio to contend in the election.
John J. Cahill has held the office of Clark County public administrator since 2007. He is challenged in the Democratic primary by Warren Hardy Brunell, a certified building inspector and electrician with the Clark County School District, and Anthony Wernicke, who unsuccessfully ran for state Senate in 2008 and Las Vegas mayor in 2011.
Henderson Constable Earl Mitchell, who has rarely been seriously opposed for the office since first being elected in 1994, finds himself with five challengers. Three Republicans and two Democrats have registered to prevent Mitchell, a Republican, from reaching his sixth term in office for a job that pays a $2,460 base salary. Mitchell had no challengers in 2010.
Serving court papers and eviction notices is not a job that earns you a lot of friends. Or a lot money. So Tom Jeeves can be forgiven for wondering why he faces so much competition for the North Las Vegas constable’s gig.
Four lawyers are pitted against each other in the June 10 primary to see who will be the next Clark County district judge to sit on the bench in Department 2.
Two lawyers are hoping to unseat two-time incumbent District Judge Susan Johnson from her Department 22 judgeship. Lawyers Bruce Gale and Jacob Hafter, along with Johnson, are hoping to survive the June 10 primary in the Clark County-wide race. The two highest vote-getters will then face off in the November election.
Four candidates, including a longtime personal injury lawyer, are vying to succeed retiring District Judge James Bixler in Department 24.
It’s safe to say that bad blood has developed between District Judge Ronald Israel and lawyer Robert Pool. Israel ordered Pool to pay $11,000 in sanctions and legal fees last year for improper filings in a lawsuit on behalf of Las Vegas Constable John Bonaventura.
Most of the eight candidates for Clark County Family Court Department B agree that decisions need to be made promptly in the courtroom to allow families to move on with their lives. Family Court Department B Judge Gloria O’Malley, first elected in 1993, is retiring from the nonpartisan office. With no incumbent running, this is the Family Court race with the most candidates.
Five candidates seek the Department C position left vacant by suspended Family Court Judge Steven Jones, who in January announced he was withdrawing from the nonpartisan race.
Kurt Busch’s attempt at completing “The Double” is over after his car blew an engine late in the Coca-Cola 600.
The front-runner in the race for judge in Clark County Family Court’s Department J is incumbent Kenneth E. Pollock, who is seeking a second term. His two opponents in the nonpartisan race are Rena H. Hughes, a family law attorney, and Romeo R. Perez, primarily a family law attorney.
Two challengers are questioning the attendance record of Family Court Judge Jennifer Elliott, who is seeking a third term in Department L.
Two Las Vegas attorneys want to take the place of Family Court Judge Sandra Pomrenze in Department P.
The incumbent in Department T is facing challenges from a former Family Court judge and a frequent Family Court candidate.
Regent and Chairman Kevin Page holds the District 3 seat. He is challenged by Bryan Spangelo, professor of biochemistry at UNLV; Swadeep Nigam, analyst at the Las Vegas Valley Water District: and Tom Hurst, teaching laboratory manager at UNLV’s physics and astronomy department.
Voters in District D face an unusual situation in their race for a Clark County School Board representative.
Two teachers are counting their political inexperience as an advantage in the nonpartisan race against seasoned Clark County School Board member Carolyn Edwards, who seeks a third term representing District F in the southwest valley.
We’re about to find out just how competitive the race for Clark County sheriff really is. On paper, there are at least three candidates with the needed traits — experience, support and determination — to make a practical run for outgoing Sheriff Doug Gillespie’s job. But in Las Vegas, the only paper that’s mattered in the history of the sheriff’s race has been money — in particular, casino money. And one of the candidates has a lot more than his competitors.
Clark County School Board candidates Erin Earlene Cranor and Joe Spencer were at odds long before they filed for the District G seat, which represents southeast Las Vegas and part of Henderson.