Nevada elections officials delivered on promises of faster election returns Tuesday, with several major races already called Tuesday night.
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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.
Nevada’s employment office reported the state added 2,600 jobs in November and its unemployment rate is 6.8 percent, down 0.4 from October.
Nine firms, including six in Southern Nevada, were awarded $12 million in state tax incentives to create 469 jobs in two years — a figure that could grow to 735 jobs in five years.
Gov. Steve Sisolak announced businesses will not face an unemployment insurance tax hike next year, following concerns from employers over a proposed tax increase.
Nevada business leaders spoke out against a proposed increase in the state’s unemployment insurance tax during a virtual meeting Friday morning hosted by two state agencies.
The clinic, offered by Legal Aid of Southern Nevada and the city of North Las Vegas, will take place at Neighborhood Recreation Center, 1638 N. Bruce St., from 9 a.m. to noon.
Eric Riccardi has survived a year without receiving his unemployment benefits, but it cost him his savings and the recent sale of his rental property, which was to be his retirement income.
The Supreme Court decision to overturn the federal eviction moratorium Thursday is not expected to have much impact on Nevada because the state already has protections in place for renters.
Nevada is experiencing another surge of COVID-19 cases that could thwart the state’s economic recovery at a time when the safety net of unemployment benefits is due to end Sept. 4.
Nevada public officials have not yet confirmed whether the new federal eviction moratorium applies to renters living in counties eligible for the new protection, leaving some renters with a cloudy future.
The latest extension is meant to stave off eviction for millions of Americans, but concerns have been raised that it may not protect Nevadans because of the state’s recently passed Assembly Bill 486.