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Timeshare company with close Laxalt ties generated dozens of customer complaints to then-AG’s office

Documents, including hundreds of pages of redacted complaint filings and emails, show at least 56 customer complaints against Starpoint filed with the attorney general’s office between 2015 and 2019, with another 35 filed to the state's Department of Business and Industry. 

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Jar Jar Binks and Mayor Goodman have a lot in common

Ordinarily, I would assume that the plot, characters, and structure of The Phantom Menace would be common knowledge. However, since Star Wars’ first prequel was released over twenty years ago, the movie might take the same place in some of our readers’ minds as Xanadu (an early prequel in the Percy Jackson universe, if I remember correctly) does in mine — namely, as a bizarre, prehistoric artifact of an ancient, long-dead people referenced in illuminated writings and various cave scrawlings. Consequently, an explanation may be in order.

Freshman Democrats build cash-on-hand advantages before races heat up

Two freshman Democrats fighting to hold onto their seats in 2020 in an effort to help their party retain their majority in the House have built up substantial cash leads to fend off any would-be Republican challengers, according to quarterly campaign finance reports due on Monday.

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