Campaign payments made by Fiore’s PAC to a business owned by her daughter highlight Nevada’s loose laws and oversight on political spending, especially with no clear definition of “personal use” or guidance on how to avoid ethical conflicts when paying family members out of campaign funds.

Eureka County Sheriff Jesse Watts issued an open letter earlier this month expressing “disdain” for Gov. Steve Sisolak and accusing him of using the October 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas as a way to “show boat” and “grand stand” in order to further gun control laws.

Clark County commissioners are asking what they can do to prevent a tragedy like the fire that took six lives and injured 13 people on Dec. 21 at the Alpine Motel Apartments in downtown Las Vegas. The Department of Building and Fire Prevention has been tasked with notifying residents of inspections and providing a "priority" list of vulnerable properties.

The Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday is expected to vote on an ordinance to allow city officials to “designate hours of sidewalk cleaning” in areas that are not already covered by an approved ordinance that makes it illegal to sit or lie down in many parts of town. Deputy City Attorney Jeff Dorocak says that the ordinance is intended to give allow the city to clean areas where encampments would be "still available," such as sidewalks or parking lots in commercial or industrial areas.

The forum brought together more than 200 local community leaders and decision-makers to focus on three major areas in their efforts to fight poverty — increasing career opportunities for the underemployed, providing employment and mentoring programs for low-income youth and increasing economic mobility for impoverished single parents. 

As a crowd protested outside of Las Vegas City Hall on Thursday, Mayor Carolyn Goodman defended the city’s efforts to end homelessness, describing them as “humanitarian and compassionate” and pushing back against critics of an ordinance that makes it illegal to sit or lie down in public rights-of-way. Criminal penalties for the ordinance are scheduled to go into effect on Feb. 1.

The complaint, filed Tuesday with the state’s Office of the Labor Commissioner by the Laborers International Union Local 169, alleges that the City of Sparks’ redevelopment agency agreed to transfer ownership of a city-owned “C Street” four-story parking garage — appraised at $950,000 — to a private developer for no money, just the rights to 90 spaces for public parking.

Many other Nevada law enforcement agencies have already taken advantage of the program, most notably the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, which alone possesses surplus military equipment worth $2 million as of 2019. The Henderson Police Department representative said she was not sure why the city was only now joining the program. 

The year-long partnership with production company Big Fish Entertainment LLC would have authorized the fire department to participate in the show, which runs on the cable channel A&E. The show depicts firefighters and paramedics responding to emergencies on a slight delay to allow for some editing and post-production, but giving viewers “the fast-paced drama and intensity associated with [real-time] emergency rescue calls.” The city would receive $500 per week in licensing fees while filming took place.

County commissioners on Tuesday scheduled a Jan. 21 public hearing for an ordinance that will consolidate the air quality department and the Office of Sustainability into a single Department of Environment and Sustainability.

According to officials from Reno, the city’s letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo consenting to refugee transfers falls in line with the values and policies of the city and “is simply a renewal of what Reno has been doing for years.”

There was no mention of the county commissioners’ decision from a couple of weeks ago or Argüello-Kline’s previous nomination for the board in Sisloak’s press release.

Reduced precipitation from climate change and disputes over Colorado River water rights loom over Nevada’s water supply, but the agency that oversees it says officials can manage the uncertainty with a boost from new conservation programs and legislative mandates. The SNWA's Joint Water Conservation Plan was approved by the board’s seven member agencies in December, after significant updates to the conservation formula and strategies.

“Right now we have more people sitting in that queue for longer than we want, and that just comes down to affordable units that we can get folks into,” Clark County Administrator of Human Services Tim Burch said.

There were a total of 123 ethics complaints received in FY19 by the commission, which only deals with state and local government employees and 28 warranted further investigation. In the previous fiscal year, there was a total of 55 complaints, and 39 of those were dismissed.

Representatives for Melanie Keener, the former sheriff’s deputy who sued Antinoro for sexual harassment in July 2017, announced Thursday that she will receive the settlement funds after her attorneys and attorneys for Storey County agreed to drop the lawsuit in federal court. As part of the settlement, Keener will leave employment with the county at the end of December and will receive paid administrative leave until her employment ends.

The Las Vegas City Council has postponed a vote on a proposed ordinance that would allow city officials to set hours for “sidewalk cleaning” during which it would be a misdemeanor to sit or lie down on public rights-of-way, punishable by a $1,000 fine or arrest. The vote on the ordinance, originally scheduled for Wednesday, has been delayed until Jan. 15.

The Clark County Commission voted Tuesday to re-appoint Laborers Union Secretary Treasurer Tommy White to a four-year term on the Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board by a margin of 5-2, shooting down a bid by Culinary Union head Geoconda Arguello-Kline that had gained the backing of several high-profile Nevada Democrats.