Nevada Politics

Education activist Susie Lee essentially has pulled even with frontrunner Lucy Flores, the former assemblywoman, according to a poll taken for her campaign last month.
Flores is at 26 percent, Lee at 23 and state Sen. Ruben Kihuen well back at 11 percent. The survey, taken by the well known nati ...

Gov. Brian Sandoval’s administration has served notice it intends to replace four of the 10 members on the Public Employee Benefits Program board.That includes Jacque Ewing-Taylor, longest serving mem ...

As the New York Times reported, Sheldon Adelson has endorsed Donald Trump for president.
Why? Because they are both Republicans and Trump won "fair and square," as Adelson ...

Clark County Commission candidates Marilyn Kirkpatrick and Steve Ross are both on TV, but his is a small cable buy and hers is a large network and cable buy.
Ross's ad, a $15,000 cable buy, goes after Kirkpatrick for her legislative record, s ...

The Senate Majority PAC, which helps Democratic candidates, is up with a brutal hit on Rep. Joe Heck, locked in a key race with Catherine Cortez Masto.
It's $450,000 in Vegas and Reno.

The Carson City Board of Supervisors came one step closer to approving the city’s 2017 fiscal year budget Thursday.The board received a final presentation on supplemental requests from city department ...

The Nevada Department of Transportation meets Monday to discuss the proposed multi-use path connecting Incline Village to Sand Harbor State Park.NDOT and local officials have long considered the route ...

The Board of Supervisors Thursday heard an update on plans for Carson City to take over a portion of South Carson Street from the Nevada Department of Transportation.The transfer is being negotiated n ...

The roll of active voters registered in Nevada has swelled by 73,119 since January with more than a third of that increase — 25,277, coming in April alone.Democrats have out-regi ...

Errors in posting two consecutive Board of Finance agendas on Wednesday forced that board to redo all of its March 8 decisions and take up several items that should have been on the April agenda.The s ...

A PAC run by Gov. Brian Sandoval's consultants and funded by his allies has unleashed a new mail barrage against tax foe Victoria Seaman, the assemblywoman running for the state Senate against colleague Erv Nelson in a primary

The roll of active voters registered in Nevada has swelled by 73,119 since January with more than a third of that increase — 25,277, coming in April alone.Democrats have out-registered Republicans by ...

The Nevada Department of Transportation reminds political candidates and their supporters that no political signs are allowed on state road right of way.In addition, federal and state highw ...

Carson City Ward 2 Supervisor Brad Bonkowski will hold his “Breakfast with Brad” on Friday, May 6, from 7:00 to 8:00 am at the Cracker Box restaurant. All Carson City residents are invited to join Bonkowski for coffee and conversation.

The Redevelopment Authority Citizens Committee considered the first applicants for Carson City’s new Facade Improvement Program. Out of nine applications, the committee approved one, denied another an ...

Lee Ann Easton has been promoted from head of Human Resources for the state to Deputy Administrator of the Department of Administration.She was replaced as head of HR by longtime deputy Administrator Peter Long.Ea ...

I have said and written many times that registration is not destiny. But those numbers mean something -- and 2016 is starting to look like 2012 and 2008 in Nevada, presidential years in which the Democrats did very well.

CARSON CITY — Nevada Supreme Court justices asked pointed questions Monday on whether an effort to repeal the state’s new business tax is legally sound to proceed in the signature gathering process.

Review-Journal Deputy Editor Jim Wright spoke at a regional journalism conference Saturday and revealed how critical letters to the editor have been killed, how stories were looked at by outside folks while they were being written and how reporters have to wait as long as eight hours for article ...

The Attorney General’s office filed a brief Friday arguing the legislative vouchers program — the so-called educational Savings Accounts law — doesn’t violate the state constitution.Instead, the 49-pa ...

A fundraiser to re-elect Assemblywoman Robin Titus will be Saturday from 1-4 p.m. at the Frey Ranch Estate Distillery, 1045 Dodge Lane.The cost is $1,500, host; $1,000, corporati ...

The U.S. Senate has approved a water management amendment proposed by Nevada senators Harry Reid and Dean Heller.In a joint statement, they said the amendment will help Nevada and other western stat ...

Tuesday the Executive Board voted to remove Assemblyman PK O'Neill from the Carson City Republican Party. There has been much press and he has a very good writer who accentuates his few highly selective non-controversial votes while in the legislature and ignores the bulk of his decisions. Obviously our action is not due to his non-challenging votes but rather his many dubious ones. He does not acknowledge his campaign promises. He does not discuss attending a CCRP meeting at which he asked for our direction on this tax issue.

Victoria Seaman, the assemblywoman running for an open state Senate seat by assailing a colleague for his tax votes, is portrayed as a "tax hypocrite" in mail pieces hitting mailboxes this week.

As journalists from The Adelson News were in Oregon on Wednesday to accept an award for uncovering who owned their newspaper, the editor called a staff meeting to send a simple message: I'm the bo ...

I acknowledge I have been reluctant to write anything about congressional hopeful Michael Roberson’s campaign of posting damaging documents about Danny Tarkanian because:

An affidavit filed by a Virginia law enforcement officer in support a search warrant for consultant Tony Dane, who is under investigation related to his involvement in legislative campaigns and the battle over speaker before the 2015 session, reveals through surreptitious reco

Carson City Assemblyman P.K. O’Neill said Tuesday he had no plans to attend the Carson party executive committee meeting that evening.He was asked to attend a Tuesday night Executive Board meeting a ...

As Nevada’s former attorney general, Catherine Cortez Masto ensured she visited every Nevada county during her eight years in office so residents and government agencies could fi ...