Residents in Trona, upset with early media coverage focused on Ridgecrest, wondered aloud whether they may again be forgotten.
Shea Johnson
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Shea joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal in November 2018 to cover City Hall and Clark County. He previously spent six years at the Desert Dispatch and Daily Press newspapers located in the High Desert of Southern California, where he covered politics at city, county and state levels. Shea has won three California Newspaper Publishers Association awards for his work. In 2018 he was a California Journalism Awards finalist for investigative reporting. He is an unapologetic Chicago sports fan, excluding only the White Sox.
Residents in a desert community about 235 miles southwest of Las Vegas have been forced to reckon with an anxiety-stirring prospect — they don’t know what to expect next.
Election victories last month by Brian Knudsen (Ward 1), Victoria Seaman (Ward 2) and Olivia Diaz (Ward 3) have altered the makeup of the Las Vegas City Council.
Mayra Crum just helped her 10,000th student become nationalized. The urgency for Crum’s students to obtain citizenship has intensified in the Trump era.
Clark County commissioners on Tuesday signaled that they were unwilling to commit any dollars from a potential quarter-cent sales tax hike to the school district without first meeting with trustees on a plan and accountability.
Las Vegas officials have teamed up with the housing authority to thus far provide more than 150 computer tablets to low-income families along with internet for two years.
During a special meeting Tuesday, the housing authority board will consider approving $5.5 million to buy the property of the first racially integrated casino in Las Vegas.
The high court recently ruled that developers and landowners may bypass state court and seek federal intervention to argue that a government has trampled on their property rights.
The city of Las Vegas plans to move into a new, $56 million municipal courthouse downtown by January 2021. Officials broke ground on the new building on Tuesday.
The protests in June 1969 by those who frequented the popular gay club Stonewall Inn marked the beginning of the gay rights movement in America.
The five-week project will generally restrict traffic during weeknights to one lane in both directions between Cathedral Rock Drive and Cheyenne Avenue.
Las Vegas Councilwoman-elect Victoria Seaman performed well at the ballot box throughout Ward 2, except in a neighborhood fighting a golf-course development that may have seen her as pro-developer.
Las Vegas City Council members Lois Tarkanian and Bob Coffin offered their final thoughts on years of city service at their final meeting on Wednesday, where they were feted with a standing ovation.
City of Las Vegas staff have agreed to recommend the council waive $1.9 million in civil penalties imposed on the land if a deal is reached.
The paltry turnout underscores the challenge of engaging voters to participate in contests during odd-numbered years, with no state or federal races driving them to the polls.
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