Review-Journal reporter Victor Joecks provides four 2018 predictions.
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For start to finish, the recall of an elected official in Nevada is supposed to take just over 120 days. Four months after the start of recalls against Sens. Joyce Woodhouse and Nicole Cannizzaro, however, it looks like the process isn’t even half over.
This summer, Democrats elected Erika Washington, an African-American woman, to CCDP’s number two spot. One of her jobs was to fill CCDP’s Political Organizing Committee, which works on voter outreach and mobilization. Washington selected three African-American women
to serve. That wasn’t acceptable to West, a white woman, because it would put too many black women on the 13 member committee.
Ten days ago, Buzzfeed reported that Kihuen’s former finance director had accused him of sexually harassing her and touching her thigh twice in early 2016. Identified by her first name, Samantha, who was 25, says then-candidate Kihuen asked her for sex, and she rejected her advances. Disgusted by his behavior, Samantha quit the campaign and told the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee why she was quitting.
Over the last week, CCSD has conducted five community meetings on the proposal. Transgender students have shared stories of being bullied at school in their push for the policy. But Nevada already has one of the most aggressive anti-bullying laws in the country. This includes a requirement that an investigation into bullying occur within one day.
If you think the Clark County School District has budget problems now, imagine how bad it’ll be if Amazon selects Las Vegas as the site of its second headquarters.
Victor Joecks talks about the North Las Vegas Metro officers who trained on UNLV campus during a Black Lives Matter UNLV event.
Victor Joecks talks about Steve Wolfson’s attempts to pass Question 1.
On Thursday, radio host Leeann Tweeden accused Sen. Al Franken of kissing and groping her without her consent. Tweeden says the misdeeds happened in 2006 on a USO tour, and she posted a picture showing Franken grabbing her breasts while she slept on a military plane.
In 2015, 80 percent of Nevadans who paid an individual mandate tax penalty made under $50,000 a year. Thirty-nine percent made under $25,000.