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.
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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.
“At least five” regents requested a special meeting Thursday to reconsider the requirement, but Gov. Steve Sisolak is encouraging the board to keep the mandate intact.
Following a Legislative Commission decision Tuesday not to approve a permanent COVID-19 vaccination mandate, schools began removing holds on student registrations.
Founding Executive Director Nancy Brune, who has led the research and policy center since 2013, will depart her post “for a new professional opportunity,” according to the University of Nevada, Reno.
The Clark County School District currently has about 850 licensed employee vacancies — more than at the start of the school year — and hundreds more support staff openings.
The Nevada Attorney General’s Office has concluded that no violation occurred in the run-up to a School Board vote in May to extend Superintendent Jesus Jara’s contract.
The federal lawsuit filed this week argues that both the vaccination mandate and a requirement that unvaccinated workers be tested for COVID-19 are unconstitutional.
The Clark County School Board voted 6-1 on Thursday to approve four recommendations for the “transfer of responsibilities,” an item related to the state’s 2017 reorganization law.
Officers of the Clark County School Board approved new “assurances” to be added to his employment agreement and mediation of his workplace harassment claims.
The report by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and U.S. Chamber of Commerce looked at pre-COVID-19 pandemic standardized test scores and high school graduation rates.
Attorneys representing nine parents appeared Monday in an appeal case alleging an underfunded public education system violates the state’s Constitution.