Elsewhere: Meet Brian Sandoval, Nevada’s party pooper
Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval speaks during a groundbreaking ceremony for the "Las Vegas Veterans Memorial - A National Tribute," at the Grant Sawyer state office building in Las Vegas Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015. The two-acre park and memorial will feature 18 larger-than-life statues of military service members from the Revolutionary War to the global war on terror.
Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016 | 9:56 a.m.
Laast June, on a school playground in Las Vegas, a Republican governor plopped into a chair before a folding metal table, applied a gray pen to a slip of paper, and broke into a jaunty grin while a throng of elementary students clapped politely. With that signature, Brian Sandoval passed part of an education package derived from an enormous tax increase well north of a billion dollars, the largest tax hike in the 151-year history of Nevada.
Since then, Sandoval has found himself somewhat lonely on the Republican stage — which is ironic, perhaps, for a handsome, hugely popular Latino star in a party eager to showcase its Hispanic credentials, a man who has been leading a state that has been thoroughly combed for months by Republican presidential candidates ahead of the Nevada caucuses. To read more, click here.