Nevada Politics

Citing recent storms and supply chain issues causing delayed delivery in the Silver State, Gov. Joe Lombardo issued a proclamation late Friday declaring a liquid petroleum gas delivery emergency in Nevada.

Top officials in Gov. Joe Lombardo’s administration said the governor and his staff are preparing a state budget that will make “unprecedented investments in K-12 education,” and evaluating pay and benefits packages for state employees, although they did not say whether those will align with dramatic increases Gov. Steve Sisolak proposed before leaving office.

More than 700 people braved icy roads to gather at the Carson Community Center on Tuesday to celebrate the swearing-in of the state’s 31st governor, Republican former Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, who declared the state was on the “threshold of another great Nevada era.”

Beginning Jan. 1, a new Nevada law will decriminalize several minor traffic offenses, including driving with broken tail lights and carrying people in the bed of a truck, eliminating the possibility of jail time for such violations and for those unable to pay their traffic fines.

The Douglas County Office of Elections is hosting an official swearing-in ceremony on January 3, 2023, in Gardnerville from 3 - 5 p.m. The ceremony is open to the public and offers the community an opportunity to congratulate local officials as they prepare to take office.

The January 6 Committee released transcripts of its interviews with Nevada GOP Chair Michael McDonald and national committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid about their roles in a 2020 fake elector scheme, demonstrating how Donald Trump’s campaign coordinated with the state GOP in an attempt to claim decisive electoral votes for Trump.

Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske sits for a rare interview in her high-ceilinged office in the historic state capitol building, wearing a sweater adorned with a sparkling Christmas tree. Nevada’s top election administrator has just wrapped up her staff holiday party — an event to which she invited her successor, a Democrat with whom she’s been in regular communication since the election to ensure a smooth transfer of power.

Carson City applauds the Nevada Congressional delegation’s work to draft and pass the FY23 Omnibus Appropriations Act.

Thanks to the tireless advocacy of Congressman Mark Amodei, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, and Senator Jacky Rosen, this legislation includes Community Project Funding for the Appion Way Improvement Project. The project is focused on improving safety and traffic circulation by placing a traffic signal at Appion Way and South Carson Street to accommodate current and future growth in the area.

Gov. Steve Sisolak has designed a budget that proposes 10 percent raises for state employees in the coming fiscal year and 5 percent in the next, although his Republican successor, Gov.-elect Joe Lombardo, and the Legislature will be able to make their own changes to the proposal.

A Carson City judge on Monday blocked Gov. Steve Sisolak’s plan for a state board to consider reducing all Nevada death sentences to life without parole, saying the last-minute proposal did not offer enough advance notice to victims.

A Carson City District Court judge will hear an emergency petition Monday from the Washoe County District Attorney's Office regarding a Nevada Board of Pardons meeting scheduled for Tuesday.

That meeting may decide whether to commute all sentences of death for convicted offenders in Nevada, giving them instead a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.

An interim panel of state legislators unanimously approved nearly $36 million in back pay for more than 14,800 state workers Thursday, restoring income for employees who were mandated to take 48 hours of furloughs during the earliest months of the pandemic.

CARSON CITY — Lawmakers at the Interim Finance Committee on Thursday approved a number of programs put forward by Governor Steve Sisolak and the Executive Branch to provide free meals to Nevada school children, support the development of the College of Medicine at Roseman University, and create more affordable housing in historic Westside Las Vegas, among other items.

Newly elected Lyon County Sheriff Brad Pope said his focus as he is sworn into office Jan. 3 will be to reduce crime in the county and foster an improved relationship between the public and law enforcement by creating a less centralized structure within the sheriff’s office.

After years of negotiation between the military, conservationists, tribal nations, and Nevada’s congressional delegation, the House last week passed an expansion of Churchill County’s Fallon Range Training Complex.

Gov.-elect Joe Lombardo and Nevada lawmakers will have $11.4 billion in projected tax revenues to construct the next two-year general fund budget covering July 2023-June 2025, marking a nearly $2.3 billion increase over the current two-year budget set in 2021.

Ben Kieckhefer, a former state senator and Nevada Gaming Commissioner, will serve as chief of staff for Gov.-elect Joe Lombardo.

The group supporting a ballot question allowing local municipalities to break apart from their county school districts in order to form their own Pre-K-12 education systems has submitted about 220,000 signatures to Nevada counties for verification, an initial total high enough to qualify for the ballot.

CARSON CITY – U.S. Representative Mark E. Amodei (NV-02) issued the following statement Thursday after being re-elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Nevada’s Second Congressional District, and after Republicans secured the House Majority for the 118th Congress:

On Friday the Carson City Board of Supervisors will hold a canvass of the vote to certify the 2022 midterm election results.

Though still unofficial, incumbent Stacey Giomi won his reelection bid for Ward 1, alongside newcomer Curt Horton to represent Ward 3.

Good morning Carson City. It's been an exciting election season, and we're finally coming to the end of it as the last batches of votes are counted throughout the Silver State.
Let's jump right in for the updated count.

A special meeting of the Carson City Board of Supervisors will be held this Friday to officially canvass the vote.

The canvass will be held Friday, Nov. 18 beginning at 8:30 a.m. inside the Carson City Community Center.

After four days of uncertainty fueled by Nevada’s lengthy vote counting process, incumbent Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto has withstood a challenge from Republican Adam Laxalt to win her second term in the U.S. Senate, securing a 50-seat majority in the upper chamber for Democrats.

As the results for the midterm election pour in, Democrats appear to be maintaining control of the Legislature, where they may have a hoped-for supermajority in the Assembly but not in the Senate.

Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo is projected to defeat Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak, but split-ticket voters gave projected victories to statewide candidates on both sides of the aisle.

Sisolak, who in 2018 was the first Democrat elected governor in more than two decades, is expected to become the 13th governor in the state’s history to lose a bid for re-election, and the first Democrat to lose a gubernatorial re-election bid since 1967.

Sisolak conceded the race Friday evening, saying he believes in the state’s election system and honoring the will of the voters.

Hello, Carson City! Let's talk a little about the Midterm Elections, and then we'll get to the updates.

The election results will continue to update as more ballots are received, which is why the results continue to update. Local election workers aren't taking their time, or struggling under loads of ballots.

Carson City Republican Party will hold its general meeting on November 17th at the Casino Fandango, 3800 S. Carson Street. Our meeting will be held in the conference room. 6:30 to 7 is a time for socializing, with our meeting starting at 7 PM.
Please join us if you are interested in seeing what we are about.

MINDEN — Douglas County Elections Office would like to inform Douglas County residents that the following text message is being disseminated regards to votes. This message is an error sent out by a third party and is not an official message sent by the Douglas County Election Office. If you receive this message, please do not reply and disregard it.

Lyon County residents voted in favor of providing additional staffing to fire stations in the Central Lyon County Fire Protection District.

As of Wednesday morning, 63 percent of voters (4,572) voted in favor of the tax initiative, which will levy a property tax of $0.23 per $100 of assessed property valuation on the residents within the fire district.

Hello, Douglas County! I hope you had a safe and warm Election Day!

These results are updated as of 8:21 a.m. Wednesday.

However, the races will not be certified until Nov. 18, and new mail-in ballots will continue to be accepted for four days after Election Day so long as they are postmarked by Nov. 8.