Election 2024
Rory Reid defends famous father’s Yucca Mountain legacy
Former Clark County Commission Chairman Rory Reid says Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Sam Brown needs a history lesson. “I’m happy to provide it here and now.” Reid emerged from his absence from public life Thursday to campaign for Sen. Jacky Rosen and speak up for keeping nuclear waste out of Southern Nevada, a cause […]
Even after district was redrawn to be competitive, Senate Dems give it the cold shoulder
The Nevada Democratic Senate Caucus, which has a credible chance of winning a veto-proof majority this year, has yet to endorse a candidate in Senate District 18, while Republicans in the primary race have a sizable lead on fundraising, endorsements and party support from Gov. Joe Lombardo. The district, which was left vacant after the […]
Culinary-backed nurse challenges Democratic incumbent in State Senate District 3
The Culinary union is flexing its political muscle this election cycle, backing the daughter of their former secretary-treasurer in a primary challenge against Democratic state Sen. Rochelle Nguyen because she supported a bill the union vehemently opposed. But Geoconda “Geo” Hughes says she wants to be the candidate for all labor, not just the powerhouse […]
Brown: Failure to bring nuclear waste to NV is an ‘incredible loss of revenue for our state’
While campaigning for U.S. Senate in 2022, Sam Brown, now the Republican frontrunner for the U.S. Senate nomination in 2024, told a campaign gathering that he supported bringing nuclear waste from the nation’s nuclear power plants to Yucca Mountain in Nevada. The Los Angeles Times Tuesday published audio of previously unreported remarks Brown made during […]
Board of Regents primary attracts crowd of candidates, despite new shorter terms
Voters in Nevada will soon need to narrow down which candidates can advance to the general election for the chance to govern Nevada’s public system of higher education. Nevada’s System of Higher Education (NSHE) — which spans four community colleges, two universities, a research institute, and a state college — is overseen by an elected […]
NV GOP Senate primary: Gunter attacks Brown, Brown woos Trump
Former President Donald Trump has endorsed candidates in all but one of this year’s competitive U.S. Senate races, leaving an opening for a mostly self-funded dark horse candidate to make a home stretch push to secure the Republican nomination and take on Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen in November. Nevada’s 2024 GOP Senate primary is theoretically […]
House candidate seeks to be first trans member of Nevada delegation
When RockAthena Brittain, a transgender woman, spoke during public comment last week before the Nevada Board of Regents in protest of Regent Patrick Boylan’s public assertion that transgender athletes are ‘masquerading’ as women, Boylan pulled out his phone and snapped a photo of Brittain at the podium. “He didn’t do that with anyone else,” Brittain […]
For some Nevadans, voting in the June primary has already started
Nevada lawmakers should consider charging a filing fee to candidates in future presidential preference primaries, members of an advisory committee suggested Tuesday. The Silver State held its first presidential preference primary election in February. Thirteen candidates appeared on the Democratic ballot. Seven appeared on the Republican ballot. (A “none of these candidates” option also appears […]
Former assemblyman faces GOED grantee, Nye school trustee in decisive GOP state senate primary
Voters in a large swath of rural Nevada will need to choose a new state senator in a Republican primary that will determine who represents the bright red district after no Democrats filed for the race. Republican Sen. Pete Goicoechea has represented the predominantly rural Senate District 19 for the past 12 years. Now three […]
3 competitive NV congressional districts attract a crowd of Republican primary hopefuls
As Congressional Democrats look to flip the House this election, which Republicans currently control with a razor-thin margin, Nevada’s three Democratic congressional incumbents are running to retain their current seats. A slew of Republican candidates are hoping to take on the three Democrats in the general election. The overwhelming majority of them have previously lost […]
Abortion rights petition okayed by Nevada Supreme Court
An initiative petition circulated by Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom, an organization working to enshrine abortion rights in the Nevada Constitution, can proceed, thanks to the Nevada Supreme Court’s affirmation Thursday of the petition’s language, which focuses on reproductive rights, including contraception, vasectomies, tubal ligation, and infertility treatment. Donna Washington and the Coalition for Parents and […]
Yucca 2025
Some Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives went full-on blast-from-the-past last week, re-upping the idea of putting the nation’s nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. And so at a Senate Energy Committee hearing Tuesday, Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto had U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm confirm yet again that nope, the Biden […]