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Endorses Black
The race
North Las Vegas elects a new mayor on November 3, 2026. Mayor Pamela Goynes-Brown — Nevada's first Black woman mayor, on the council since 2015 and mayor since 2022 — is barred by the city's 12-year term limit. In the June 9 five-candidate primary, Assemblymember Daniele Monroe-Moreno took about 47% (13,809 votes) and Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem Scott Black took about 42% (12,198). The Clark County Election Department's official newsletter lists Black and Monroe-Moreno as the November ballot. The race is nonpartisan. One source conflict, printed rather than resolved: City Cast Las Vegas reports Black "has a history of identifying as Republican" while also identifying Monroe-Moreno's Democratic ties; News in Las Vegas, summarizing Nevada Current, describes both as Democrats. We print the conflict because it is the record we retrieved; Black's governing file below does not depend on the label.
Scott Black — Councilman. Black owned a local marketing firm before winning a Ward 3 council seat in 2017; he now serves as mayor pro tem and is endorsed by outgoing Mayor Goynes-Brown. His case is continuity with the city's turnaround: North Las Vegas was nearing bankruptcy in 2013, and his campaign states the city now has "stronger public safety, improved neighborhoods, billions in economic investment, and great hope for the future" — a campaign claim, directionally consistent with the city's widely reported Apex Industrial Park warehouse, distribution, data-center, and manufacturing boom, which the next mayor will oversee along with downtown's reinvention. His campaign has spent heavily — more than $1 million in total per the Independent's finance reporting, with donors including Goynes-Brown, the Fremont Hotel & Casino, the Vegas Chamber, and Apex interests. His campaign's sharpest line is about the office itself: "Mayor of North Las Vegas is a nonpartisan office, meant to serve every resident. City Hall should answer to neighbors — not hyper-partisan political agendas." His dirt column has two entries. A term-limit lawsuit argued a four-year mayoral term would push him past the 12-year limit; a judge rejected the challenge because Black has not yet served 12 years — but if elected he can serve only one term as mayor, a continuity cost Monroe-Moreno fairly presses. And a September candidate briefing reported that Black, as a councilman, defended a consulting payout later ruled illegal — with the same briefing noting neither candidate has been accused of wrongdoing in that ethics case. We print it at exactly that weight: a defended payout, later ruled illegal, no accusation of personal wrongdoing.
Daniele Monroe-Moreno — Assemblymember. Monroe-Moreno has served nine years in the Nevada Assembly, chairs the powerful Ways and Means Committee — the legislature's budget gavel — and chairs the Nevada Democratic Party. She campaigns on affordability, neighborhood investment, and ensuring jobs from the city's economic expansion go to city residents. Her finance file: $156,000 raised in the reported period, with donors including Switch ($10,000), IBEW, Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager, and former Governor Steve Sisolak. Her credits are real: state budget experience at the highest committee level and a primary win. Her dirt column is also structural, and Black names it accurately: the chair of a state political party is, in his words, one of "the most partisan jobs in Nevada," and she would bring that office's obligations and enemies into a nonpartisan City Hall. A Ways and Means chair also governs by the state budget process — there is no Manchin-style break file in her retrieved record, no documented fight against her own party toward our values; she is a party chair, the institutional opposite of a break.
Pros and cons
Black: Pros: Nine years on this city's council and its mayor pro tem during a boom that followed near-bankruptcy; the outgoing mayor's endorsement; a nonpartisan-office argument that fits the office; business ownership before office. Cons: Term limits confine him to a single mayoral term; he defended a consulting payout later ruled illegal (no personal-wrongdoing accusation — printed at that weight); $1 million-plus in spending with developer and casino donors. Monroe-Moreno: Pros: Assembly Ways and Means chair — serious budget experience; won the primary; affordability and resident-jobs focus matched to the city's real tension (boom, but rents rising). Cons: Sits as chair of the Nevada Democratic Party while asking for a nonpartisan office; no break record against her party on any value we hold; party-machine donor file.
Record gaps
- Black's party registration could not be resolved from the retrieved sources, which conflict (Republican history vs. both-Democrats descriptions). We do not adopt either as fact.
OUR CALL
Our call: endorse Scott Black. This is the municipal-experience candidate against the party-apparatus candidate. Black helped govern the city out of its post-bankruptcy decade into an industrial boom and answers to the voters of the city he would lead; Monroe-Moreno's other job is chairing the Nevada Democratic Party, and her record contains no break from it. Black's flaws are printed above at full weight — the single-term limit is a genuine cost, and the defended payout is a genuine entry — and neither is in Monroe-Moreno's league of disqualification: a partisan chair is not a nonpartisan mayor.
Vote Black.
For the complete Election 2026 breakdown — every race, claim by claim — see the full coverage on our website. Vote early. Research your candidates. Choose the best moderates, whatever their party — no extremism from either side. And encourage your friends and family to do the same. --- Sources — - Clark County Election Department — Summer 2026 Newsletter (official; North Las Vegas Mayor: Black, Scott; Monroe-Moreno, Daniele) — https://clarkcountynv.gov/assets/documents/government/departments/elections/newsletter/cced-newsletter-summer2026.pdf - City Cast Las Vegas — "Your Guide to Mayoral Races in Henderson and North Las Vegas 2026" (primary shares, backgrounds, term-limit lawsuit, party-identification history) — https://Lasvegas.citycast.fm/mayoral-mondays/mayoral-races-to-watch-in-southern-nevada - Nevada Current via Las Vegas News — "City councilman and state Democratic Party chair compete to lead North Las Vegas" (primary votes 13,809 / 12,198; Goynes-Brown term limit; Black's nonpartisan-office statement) — https://lasvegasnews.co/newswire/story/nevada-current/city-councilman-and-state-democratic-party-chair-compete-to-lead-north-las-vegas/ - News in Las Vegas — "North Las Vegas Mayor Race: Black vs. Monroe-Moreno" (Oct. 8, 2026; 2013 near-bankruptcy context) — https://newsinlasvegas.com/news/north-las-vegas-mayor-race-black-monroe-moreno/ - Nevada Independent via News in Las Vegas — campaign finance summary (Monroe-Moreno $156,000 raised; Black $204,800 in period, $1M+ total) — https://newsinlasvegas.com/news/southern-nevada-local-races-campaign-fundraising-totals/ - KVIG Informative — "North Las Vegas Picks a New Mayor" (Sept. 2, 2026; the defended consulting payout later ruled illegal, with no wrongdoing accusation against either candidate) — https://kviginfo.com/2026/09/02/nlv-election/
Result pending. No verified call (Associated Press or official) as of November 4, 2026. This page will be updated when the race is called or certified. The original article above is unchanged.
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