Legal sex worker sues Sisolak, wants state to reopen brothels or allow sex workers to work from home

Four months ahead of schedule, work began Thursday morning on a sprawling medical facility that, by 2022, will house UNLV’s burgeoning medical school. But that work comes in the absence of $25 million in state-appropriated money that was pulled this summer amid faltering state revenues and a $1.2 billion budget shortfall triggered by coronavirus lockdowns.

Carson City District Court Judge James Wilson said he’ll have a decision ready “as soon as possible” after a nearly nine-hour evidentiary hearing Wednesday in the lawsuit seeking various changes to how the state’s most populous county processes mail votes and allows for volunteers and others to observe the counting of ballots.

President Donald Trump predicted that he will win Nevada in the presidential election in six days while laying the groundwork to dispute a loss, voicing vague concerns that ballots are “floating around” and incorrectly asserting that Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, has the ability to “add” votes up to two weeks after the election.

Democrat Ross Miller’s Clark County Commission campaign has filed a complaint with the secretary of state’s office accusing Republican opponent Stavros Anthony of “numerous campaign finance violations,” but Anthony’s campaign says they are correcting errors.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, names Clark County Registrar Joe Gloria and Clark County itself as defendants, and claims that county officials failed to turn over information in response to detailed public records requests submitted by attorneys for the campaign and state Republican Party.

Across the state, regulators have issued more rights to water than there is water to go around. Water users are closely watching a test case in Diamond Valley to understand the limits of the law and the potential paths forward.

Her stops in Reno and Las Vegas come as Democrats have built up a lead in ballots cast in Clark County, their “firewall” against more Republican-heavy Washoe County and rural areas, but not an insurmountable one. With Biden polling an average of 4.6 percentage points above Trump in Nevada, both candidates appear to view the state as still in play.

A lawsuit filed earlier this year that challenges Nevada's K-12 education funding was dismissed by a Carson City District Court Judge. The plaintiffs plan to appeal.

Federal District Court Judge Miranda Du on Wednesday formally dismissed the lawsuit filed by “Protect Our Girls,” a political action committee formed this year with the backing of the pro-life group, Nevada Right to Life, in order to support the proposed ballot initiative regarding parental notification on abortions for minors.