The state’s COVID task force has voted to allow bars and taverns to reopen in Las Vegas and Clark County.
Bill Dentzer
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Based in Reno, Bill Dentzer covers government and politics and related state news out of the Review-Journal’s capital bureau in Carson City. He joined the RJ in October 2018 after similar assignments at the Salt Lake Tribune in Utah and the Idaho Statesman in Boise. He earlier covered state and local government in his home state of New York, where he graduated from Hamilton College.
Gov. Steve Sisolak said he was “disappointed that Douglas County chose to allow the venue to host the event and go against the directives” and the county’s federal coronavirus pandemic aid allotment was being reviewed.
President Donald Trump fired up thousands of supporters at an outdoor event at an airport in Minden on Saturday night with an ad-libbed mix of bravado, insults, grievance-airing and record-touting aimed at rallying supporters to the polls in what could be a critical state for him in November.
President Donald Trump will hold a public event at the Minden-Tahoe Airport in Douglas County, then at Xtreme Manufacturing in Henderson this weekend.
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Gov. Steve Sisolak rejected a request by the Republican secretary of state for emergency powers to oversee the newly authorized third-party collection of election ballots.
Workers trying to get unemployment benefits from an overwhelmed state system turned to sometimes angry emails when they were unable to get their claims resolved quickly.
Bars, taverns, distilleries and other alcohol-serving establishments will stay closed at least two more weeks in Clark County, the state’s COVID-19 mitigation task force decided Thursday.
A Clark County district court judge has rebuffed a lawsuit seeking to undo the state-ordered closure of bars and taverns in the county to fight the spread of COVID-19.
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The judge deciding a legal challenge by Clark County bar owners seeking to reverse Gov. Steve Sisolak’s order closing their businesses to fight the spread of COVID-19 promised a quick ruling Thursday after a 90-minute hearing.
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