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.
Warren Elementary School teacher Trina Boring’s hard work and dedication to her students has earned her the honor of being Clark County Educator of the Month for April.
Obamacare is beginning to affect retirees in subtle ways, according to two new studies.
Upside: You, baby boomer parent, and your teenager may finally have something in common.
Clark County Recorder Debbie Conway faces two Democratic opponents in the June 10 primary, including a former high-level director who worked within the recorder’s office.
Voters in the southwest Las Vegas Valley’s Assembly District 35 will have to choose between similar platforms from all of their primary candidates.
A nervous energy bubbled high atop the Rio, on the patio on the 50th floor, where men and women of all shapes and sizes queued up to be the first to ride the new VooDoo Zip Line on Sunday.
Brandon Burk directs Oscar Wilde’s comedy of manners “The Importance of Being Earnest” for Off-Strip Productions at the Onyx Theatre with as light a touch as the delicate crustless cucumber sandwiches that Algernon Moncrieff scarfs down while awaiting his guests in the opening scene. Burk skips the hoary Masterpiece Theatre treatment of this classic and instead surprises his audience with a play with moral irreverence as surprising and funny to today’s audience as it must have been when first performed in London.
Ten areas in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada have been selected as top priorities for projects to combat damage from insects and disease that increases the wildfire risk.
