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Two Moms for Liberty allies joining the Clark County School Board. What happens now?

Culture war issues centered in the Clark County School Board’s races will likely be a source of tension next year as two former members of a conservative parents group join the 11-member board.

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In defense of Mayor Goodman

The evolution of the role of mayor in the biggest little city in Clark County includes all manner of white people trying to hustle atop city government, including force-of-nature Oscar B. Goodman. In what follows, we’ll roll down memory lane as fast as a high speed rail from Victorville to Las Vegas until we come to Carolyn Goodman, a.k.a. the conductor of this week’s locally based and globally spotted train wreck.

The Clark County Detention Center at dusk

Governor Sisolak appoints members to new Board of Indigent Defense Services

Members of BIDS, who were announced on Tuesday, are charged with helping keep a standard level of legal representation throughout the state for anyone in financial need who is charged with a crime. The board is made up of 13 voting members and three non-voting members, who are appointed to three-year terms.

October 1 emotions drive debate on bill to ban bump stock devices, give local governments more power

It was addressed to friends and family, written on advice of a counselor who told the Democratic Assemblywoman that it could help her process the trauma of having survived the mass shooting on October 1, 2017. On Monday, she read that letter publicly for the first time; detailing how her husband Truman covered her body to protect her from bullets, how she hid under bleachers, ran into gunfire to jump a fence and escape — and how she grappled with the guilt of survival.

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