Gov. Steve Sisolak will focus heavily on education, health care and jobs when he delivers his first State of the State address before the Nevada Legislature Wednesday night in Carson City.
Colton Lochhead
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Colton Lochhead covers pot and politics for the Review-Journal, where he started as an intern covering crime and breaking news in 2012. Raised in Las Vegas, the life-long desert rat graduated from Bonanza High School before earning his journalism degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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