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.
Being a shooting victim doesn’t make you an expert on ending gun violence. You wouldn’t know that from watching CNN. It’s been a week since a monster killed 17 at a Florida high school. The calls for gun control have been reflexive and ambiguous, but the media has found a new mouthpiece — shooting survivors.
After every mass shooting, Democrats and their allies in the media tell Americans to “do something.” The response to Wednesday’s horrific shooting in Florida has been no different.
Background check supporters should blame Michael Bloomberg and Question 1 backers for the stalled initiative, said attorney general and Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt. Laxalt also committed to opposing tax increases if elected. Laxalt made the comment while filming Nevada Politics Today.
Nevada state Senate Democrats who received contributions from disgraced former-Sen. Mark Manendo have yet to return or donate that money, campaign finance reports show.
Attorney general and Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt is committed to continuing the education reforms started by Gov. Brian Sandoval. He also wants to implement work requirements for able-bodied Medicaid recipients and doesn’t think the federal government will disrupt recreational marijuana in Nevada.
President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address was a political home run — in part because of what he didn’t say. There wasn’t a single word about reforming the politically sacrosanct Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. While that undoubtedly boosted the popularity of his speech, he was ignoring the greatest threat to America’s fiscal health.