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PHOTOS: A tumultuous year captured through the lens of a camera

Our photographers — Jeff Scheid, Daniel Clark and David Calvert — documented a world that would have been difficult, if not impossible, to predict on New Year's Day a year ago. The year started with a heavy political presence in Nevada ahead of the presidential caucus, then veered into a pandemic-induced shutdown by mid-March.

Assembly Majority Floor Leader Teresa Benitez-Thompson, right, speaks with Deputy Minority Whip Robin Titus, on Friday, July 31, 2020 during the first day of the 32nd Special Session of the Legislature in Carson City.

Nevada grows majority-female Legislature after 2020 election, with more than 60 percent of seats to be filled by women

In total, the 42-seat state Assembly will have 27 female lawmakers and 14 male lawmakers, including 19 female Democrats and eight female Republicans. In the 21-member state Senate, men will hold 10 seats and females will hold 11 (two Republicans and nine Democrats). Women held 33 of the 63 seats in the 2019 Legislature, hitting the majority mark after two female Assembly members (Rochelle Nguyen and Bea Duran) were appointed to vacant positions by the Clark County Commission in December 2019.

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What to watch in the 2020 primary election: Assembly and state Senate races

Of the 42 seats in the state Assembly, almost a quarter will be decided in the primary election. Four races will actually be decided in the primary — including three incumbent Republicans fending off challengers — because no other candidates filed to run in those districts. Another five races will effectively be decided in the primary, given vast disparity in voter registration totals making it all but impossible for the opposing party to gain a foothold.

Former speaker misses weeks of Legislature because of knee injury

Hambrick, a former Assembly speaker who was re-elected to a sixth term in 2018, said he hopes to return to the Legislature in the near future but is still recovering from a knee injury suffered last year. He estimated the recovery period, which includes meeting with a physical therapist, would last another two weeks but said it was possible it could extend longer.

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