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“There's certainly no shortage of issues that come across your desk as county commissioner,” Miller said in an interview with The Nevada Independent on Tuesday. “I enjoyed it … But I’ll step aside to let somebody else take on what really turns out to be more than a full-time job.”

Serving as the political center of our state government puts Carson City’s residents in an awkward spot when they just want to throw a nice event without everything getting all, well, political.

“We were preparing for a storm, but we’ve never had a hurricane sweep that far inland,” Aimee Williams says. “We were expecting a lot of rain, but we weren’t expecting 10 inches.”

Perceptions of the Historic Commercial Center that makes up the larger part of the South of Sahara Avenue District are mixed, with some loving the unique vibe of the area and others describing it as run down.

Republican April Becker has filed an election integrity violation report alleging Democratic Clark County Commissioner Ross Miller violated campaign finance law several times.

Clark County Republican Party Chairman and 2020 fake elector scandal participant Jesse Law has added another line to his intriguing resume.

Ford said he has five priority areas — called the “Five Cs” — to support that justice focus, including constitutional rights, criminal justice reform, consumer protection, client service and community engagement.

By most metrics, the Senate race in Nevada will be one of just a handful that will decide control of the nation’s most powerful deliberative body for at least the next two years. 

A law firm known for representing Nevada Democrats is representing the state Legislature in the ongoing redistricting lawsuit filed by Republican Assembly members.

Reid, who had been out of office for nearly six years before his death, was able to make those political donations through a loophole in federal campaign finance law that allows retired elected officials to continue to use their campaign accounts for years after they leave office.

The new mask mandate will apply to all businesses in incorporated cities and unincorporated parts of the county and takes effect at the stroke of midnight on Thursday.

The state Supreme Court Thursday upheld a 15-vote victory last November by now-Clark County Commissioner Ross Miller, denying the legal challenge by former Las Vegas City Councilman Stavros Anthony, who was seeking a new election.

Aguilar, a Democrat, rolled out his campaign on Tuesday touting endorsements from a host of high-profile Democrats and education advocates, including former Secretary of State Ross Miller, Lt. Gov. Kate Marshall, philanthropist Beverly Rodgers and tennis legend Andre Agassi. (Aguilar previously worked as general counsel for Agassi’s management company, Agassi Graf.)

The state Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday morning in a months-long case over an exceptionally close Clark County Commission race, with lawyers arguing whether discrepancies in the voting process met the definition of an election being “prevented.”

Buck is one of four freshmen in the Senate, and the only Republican elected in a competitive district. She said she hoped to put her head down and focus on passing her priority bills, but wasn’t concerned if her proposals were held up or blocked for overtly political reasons.

The commission voted to certify the recount’s results on Dec. 15. Anthony’s lawsuit for a new Clark County Commission election was rejected by a judge on Christmas Eve, but Anthony filed a notice on Monday with the Nevada Supreme Court to appeal the District Court’s decision denying his request.

Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez denied the motion in a brief order on Thursday, writing that she could not apply a state law allowing for new elections owing to the loss or destruction of ballots in this case because “the election was not prevented.”

The Clark County Commission voted Tuesday to certify the results in the recount for the District C race, which resulted in a 15-vote victory for Democrat Ross Miller.