Nevada elections officials delivered on promises of faster election returns Tuesday, with several major races already called Tuesday night.
Politics and Government
Deputy City Attorney Rebecca Wolfson was leading two other attorneys and in a position to possibly win the race outright to serve as a judge on the Las Vegas Municipal Court.
Races for Clark County School Board will likely advance to the general election, preliminary election results show.
Preliminary primary election results showed Republican candidate April Becker and Democrat Shannon Bilbray-Alexrod ahead in their respective primaries.
The Associated Press calls the GOP primary in Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District for Drew Johnson.
Proposed legislation would ensure the tax still applies if the property is transferred to a business entity that was “formed for the purpose of avoiding those taxes.”
A joint resolution introduced on Friday would repeal Nevada’s lottery ban, which has been part of the constitution since statehood.
Residents questioned how North Las Vegas could permit a huge warehouse project bordering an area that has been plagued by sinking ground for decades.
Advocates proposed increasing the property transfer tax to fund low-income housing during a state Senate committee meeting Tuesday.