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Nevada billionaire megadonor pumps $2 million into Sam Brown super PAC
GOP Senate hopeful Sam Brown has a new financial backer: an Incline Village-based billionaire who has not previously donated large amounts to candidates in Nevada. David Duffield over the past three months donated $2 million to Duty First Nevada, a super PAC supporting Brown, according to campaign finance reports submitted to the Federal Election Commission. […]
Charter School Authority approves additional $1.2m in transportation funding, $4.7m remains
The Nevada State Public Charter School Authority Board on Friday approved an additional $1.2 million in transportation funding — bringing the total in awarded funds to $2.3 million, still far short of the $7 million available this academic year. Jennifer Bauer, the interim executive director for the SPCSA, told the Charter School Board staff is […]
Clark County teachers inspired Nevada’s anti-strike law. They might also upend it.
Earlier this month a coalition of labor unions organized more than 75,000 workers across five states to carry out the largest strike to ever hit the health care sector. More than 30,000 United Auto Workers members across 22 states, including Nevada, are currently on strike, fighting for better contracts and against “the billionaire class and […]
Georgia county summons Nevada fake elector Jim DeGraffenreid in trial for Trump lawyers
Nevada State Republican National Committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid is one of six non-Georgia residents being summoned to testify in an upcoming trial for Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell — two attorneys indicted by the Peach State for their part in attempting to overthrow the results of the 2020 election. Fulton County prosecutors in a legal filing […]
Brown avoids abortion issue on campaign, but attends anti-abortion rights gala
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sam Brown last month quietly attended an anti-abortion rights organization’s annual gala — a hint at where he stands on an issue he has largely tried to downplay on the campaign trail. Brown and his campaign did not publicize his attendance at Nevada Right to Life’s 16th Annual Friends for Life […]
State plans for presidential primary, says GOP’s caucus is GOP’s business
Nevada’s top election officials on Thursday expressed confidence in their ability to dutifully administer a presidential primary in early February, but they largely sidestepped discussing the obvious potential for mass voter confusion that may arise from a competing party-run presidential caucus scheduled for the same week. Democrats in the Nevada Legislature attempted to move the […]
Nevada’s exodus of election officials took with them 104 years of experience, says report
Ten of Nevada’s 17 counties have lost their top election official since the last presidential election, a higher turnover rate than in almost all other western states, according to a new report out Tuesday. Among the 11 western states analyzed by the cross-partisan political reform group Issue One, only Arizona — a fellow battleground state […]
‘Still a ways to go’ but indigent defense is improving in Nevada’s rural counties
Progress on correcting systemic issues with the delivery of indigent defense in Nevada’s rural counties has sped up in recent years, but the state is still out of compliance with standards set in a legal agreement it entered three years ago. Nevada’s Department of Indigent Defense Services (DIDS) was established by state lawmakers in 2019 […]
Nevada just outlawed a predatory title scheme, but not before 800+ homeowners fell for it
It works like this: Someone thinking about selling their home heads to the internet to look for some info. They see an advertisement offering a free market analysis — actually, it’s better than free, because this company is offering to pay the homeowner now, a show of how seriously they want to build a relationship […]
Supreme Court leaves injunction against ‘sickouts’ in place while appeal plays out
The Nevada Supreme Court on Friday denied the Clark County Education Association’s request to stay an injunction against it for recent “rolling sickouts” that have shut down schools and disrupted instruction within the Clark County School District. The injunction will remain in place as CCEA’s appeal plays out. “We are pleased that the injunction granted […]
Initiative would put abortion rights on 2024 Nevada ballot
A political action committee founded by Planned Parenthood Votes, NARAL Pro-Choice Nevada and the ACLU of Nevada is leading a new effort to enshrine abortion rights and other reproductive health protections into the state constitution. Nevada for Reproductive Freedom on Thursday announced they have filed a petition initiative to establish a fundamental right to reproductive […]
CCSD ‘sickouts’ ruled an illegal strike, teachers union to appeal decision
The “rolling sickouts” that have resulted in one-day closures at eight Clark County School District schools over seven instructional days constitute an illegal strike, a district court ruled Wednesday. District Judge Crystal Eller granted CCSD a preliminary injunction against the Clark County Education Association meant to end the rolling sickouts, which have come amid an […]