Who wants to be a Clark County Commissioner?

Friday. About time, no?

IN THE CURRENT

A little something for everyone. Republican state legislator Heidi Kasama was going to run for Congress a couple years ago. But then the Pretend Joe Lombardo Is A Thing PAC (not its real name but should be) got obsessed with the idea of pretending Democratic legislative supermajorities posed an existential threat not only to Gov. Veto, but Nevada as a going proposition or whatever. As if Nevada Democrats would have the guts to do anything interesting let alone meaningful with veto-proof legislative majorities. But I digress. So Kasama took a powder on the congressional race and stayed in the Assembly to protect Lombardo’s holy sacred veto autopen amen. But now she’s running for the Clark County Commission. Which evidently is a step up from Nevada State Assembly ha ha. But! A former Republican legislator who is the sort of person they may have had in mind when they made LinkedIn is running for commish too, as an independent. Meanwhile, the Democratic dude who currently holds the county commission seat tried to pick his successor, assisted by his hitherto accumulated campaign cash. But he totally and perhaps characteristically failed (which the cosmos is probably happy about for a series of reasons). April Corbin Girnus reports: Veteran public official running as nonpartisan shakes up Clark County Commission race

Public lands in corporate hands? The aforementioned Lombardo marketing apparatus would call that “the Nevada way.” But, to borrow another Lombardoism, “C’mon man.” In other words, the latest column from Tahoe chronicler Pamela Tsigdinos: Land use, luxury developers, and Lake Tahoe’s future are on the ballot

Makes sense, or so you might be inclined (I was) to think about a judge not being appointed while an election is mere weeks away. But it turns out in such situations the appointment is sort of the norm (again with the Nevada way). Except in this instance. Dana Gentry reports: Attorney passed over by judicial selection panel faces hearing master in election

One of your president’s obsessions has cost the average Nevada household more than $2,000, according to one estimate. (And, to be clear, that doesn’t include the insane war.) The D.C. bureau’s Ashley Murray reports: Voters in midterm elections identify a culprit for rising cost of living: Trump’s tariffs

Good Luck