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OPINION: At 100, Sara Denton reminds her party to stop frowning and keep fighting

As a woman and lifelong Democrat, she had hoped to propose a toast to the outcome of the 2024 presidential campaign and rest easy knowing that she had lived long enough to see the first woman elected to the highest office in the land. That didn’t happen.

With his veto power on the line in 2024, Lombardo’s campaign machine is ramping up

For years, Nevada Democrats have dominated in fundraising and state legislative races. But the first-term Republican governor is looking to turn the tide.

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University presidents, including Sandoval, pen letter in support of renaming McCarran airport after Sen. Harry Reid

UNR President and former Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval joined his UNLV counterpart, President Keith Whitfield, in a letter Thursday to the Clark County Commission supporting changing the namesake of Las Vegas’ international airport from controversial Sen. Pat McCarran to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Much fanfare but few results followed passage of 2017 anti-BDS bill

The effort to pass legislation targeting B.D.S. had been pitched as a way to combat a very real rising tide of anti-Semitism locally and nationally, but opponents have derided the laws as both a waste of government time and resources and a threat to free speech rights, leading groups including the American Civil Liberties Union to file lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the laws in several states.

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