Gov. Joe Lombardo announced his appointment of Vaughn Hartung to the Nevada Transportation Authority and designated him as its new chair. Hartung in turn resigned from the Washoe County Commission. Throughout his tenure on the commission, Hartung served as chair and held numerous board appointments, including on the Regional Transportation Commission and on the Reno-Sparks Convention & Visitors Authority (RSCVA). Prior to his service on the commission, Hartung owned a photography business and served as an adjunct faculty member for UNR Reno and Truckee Meadows Community College, where he taught photography for two decades. Lombardo also announced two judicial appointments: Paul Gaudet to the Eighth Judicial District Court, Family Division, Department N, and Regina McConnell to the Eighth Judicial District Court, Family Division, Department O. Since 1992, Gaudet has owned a general trial practice in Las Vegas, focused on family and domestic law, along with personal injury, juvenile, and criminal law. McConnell has worked as a family law attorney at McConnell Law, Ltd., since 2014. She has practiced law in Nevada since 2002 and worked at several law firms in Las Vegas, prior to her starting her own practice in Henderson.
Graham Walters, chief people officer for DraftKings, and Matter Real Estate Group partner Jim Stuart, welcomed Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman, John Brislin from County Commissioner Michael Naft’s office, Eric Cardona from U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen’s office and Art Goldberg from the Vegas Chamber to commemorate the grand opening of DraftKings’ 90,000-square-foot technology hub at UnCommons, the mixed-use development in southwest Las Vegas. Occupying much of an entire building at UnCommons, the Las Vegas office will be DraftKings’ second-largest office in the United States.
Wahlburgers, the celebrated family burger restaurant of chef Paul Wahlberg and superstar brothers Mark Wahlberg and Donnie Wahlberg, will open a second location on the Las Vegas Strip in late March. The new Wahlburgers, located at Mandalay Bay within The Shoppes at Mandalay Place, joins the global franchise, which started in Hingham, Massachusetts in 2011.
Addie Rolnick, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians law professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV, has been appointed to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Committee on Law and Justice. She also serves as the faculty director of the Indian Nations Gaming & Governance Program, as well as the Associate Director of the Program on Race, Gender & Policing. The committee works to influence policy, set a national research agenda to help reduce crime, and use research and evidence to amend laws and legal actions. The group focuses its work on three areas including youth and the justice system, the workings of the criminal justice system, and crime and victimization.Rolnick specializes in Indigenous rights, juvenile and criminal law, and racial justice. She has written about Native people’s encounters with tribal, federal, and state justice systems; equal protection-based attacks on indigenous rights; formal and informal policing; and indigenous justice systems.
Dr. Benjamin Chan joined Southwest Medical’s Siena Heights Healthcare Center (2845 Siena Heights Drive, Henderson) and specializes in adult medicine.
The Durango Casino & Resort by Station Casinos will include three immersive concepts by Clique Hospitality: Mijo Modern Mexican Restaurant, a fresh coastal Mexican culinary experience; Bel-Aire Lounge, a chic cocktail bar, each opening this fall; and Bel-Aire Backyard, a stylish poolside retreat, opening in late spring 2024.
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