Las Vegas City Attorney Rebecca Wolfson has raised more than $340,000 in a race for Municipal Court, out fundraising all other judicial candidates in the upcoming primary elections.
Politics and Government
Speakers at a Board of Regents meeting expressed disappointment in a lack of response from the board and UNLV leadership on a recent commencement speech.
The lawsuit was being brought with 30 state and district attorneys general and seeks to break up the monopoly they say is squeezing out smaller promoters and hurting artists.
With the campaign season in full swing, 10 hopefuls pitched their vision for the city’s future to at the “Meet the Candidates” forum in the west valley.
Clark County will likely challenge a district court judge’s decision in the ongoing litigation with Gypsum Resources to the state Supreme Court.
Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel and singer Brandon Flowers of the Las Vegas-based band The Killers will headline a Friday night rally for U.S. Senate candidate Jacky Rosen in Las Vegas.
Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is no stranger to speaking out about politics, but he’s now harnessed his celebrity to endorse a North Las Vegas candidate.
It was supposed to be a discussion between President Donald Trump, rapper Kanye West and NFL Hall of Famer Jim Brown on urban policy, job creation and criminal justice issues. Instead it devolved into a rambling monologue about the rapper’s life, race and politics and a push for Trump to commute the sentence of a convicted murderer and gang leader.
“In the past I’ve been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now,” Swift wrote in an Instagram post.
Tuesday is the final day for mail-in voter registration, and a group of local restaurants, bars and food retailers are doing their part to make sure their customers don’t miss that deadline.