US voters will head to the polls Tuesday for off-year state and local elections in what is expected to serve as a bellwether for national trends at the ballot box in 2024.
On the eastern flank of metropolitan Las Vegas, out past a water park advertising “the world’s largest man-made wave” and a nascent development called Cadence, a red-dirt parking lot teases public access to the system that enabled the past three decades of growth in southern Nevada. Called the Las Vegas Wash, it amounts to a channel that funnels the area’s recycled water back to its aquatic lifeline: Lake Mead.Bushwhacking through the cottonwoods that line the wash and past a massive desert toba
Democrats and Republicans are expecting a close race in Kentucky’s gubernatorial election next month even as polls show Gov. Andy Beshear (D) with a steady lead. Beshear, one of the most popular governors in the country, is running for a second term against Republican Daniel Cameron, Kentucky’s attorney general, in a deeply red state. But Kentucky has a recent history of electing Democratic governors, and polls have largely shown Beshear with at least some multi-point lead. Still, members…