On February 26, 2026, the United States Senate unanimously passed the Sloan Canyon Conservation and Lateral Pipeline Act. The bill grants the Southern Nevada Water Authority rights to tunnel 40 miles beneath the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area to construct a pipeline capable of carrying 375 million gallons of water per day to Henderson and… Continue reading The Pipeline Under The Petroglyphs
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Whatever You Want, Ben
In 2023, a Skydio sales representative sent a customer proposal to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. LVMPD Chief of Staff Mike Gennaro forwarded the email to venture capitalist Ben Horowitz, asking which deployment option the department should choose. Horowitz replied with a question: Which deployment are you looking to do? Gennaro’s response, according to… Continue reading Whatever You Want, Ben
El Valle Dividido
El Proyecto de Ley de la Asamblea No. 4 llegó a la Legislatura de Nevada enmarcado como una medida integral de seguridad pública, destinada a responder a las preocupaciones sobre el creciente desorden en los corredores más transitados del estado. Se extiende por sesenta y ocho páginas y toca casi todos los aspectos del código… Continue reading El Valle Dividido
Gentrificación a Través del Arte
Cuando Minja Yan lanzó su campaña para el Distrito F de la Comisión del Condado de Clark, habló de accesibilidad, habitabilidad y capacidad de respuesta. Su mensaje era claro: “Luchando por un Condado Clark más fuerte y accesible.” Pero bajo la superficie de ese mensaje hay una red de roles y relaciones que complica la… Continue reading Gentrificación a Través del Arte
Las Raíces Olvidadas
Las Vegas le debe su nombre a la historia latina. En 1830, el explorador mexicano Rafael Rivera descubrió un fértil valle de praderas y manantiales mientras buscaba agua por el Camino Viejo Español. Lo llamó Las Vegas — “las praderas”. Casi dos siglos después, la ciudad construida sobre ese descubrimiento todavía lleva la huella del… Continue reading Las Raíces Olvidadas
The Brain Switch Scientists Keep Ignoring
Scientists discovered that stress leaves a molecular fingerprint on the brain long after the experience ends. They also found the brain has natural systems to fight back. Neither finding is getting the attention it deserves. In December 2025, researchers studying how the brain responds to stress identified molecular changes that can alter behavior long after… Continue reading The Brain Switch Scientists Keep Ignoring
How The Bboring Company Replaced The Las Vegas Monorail
In May 2019, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority awarded a $48.7 million contract to Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build an underground tunnel system beneath the Las Vegas Convention Center. Construction began six months later. What followed over the next five years was not simply the arrival of a new transit technology —… Continue reading How The Bboring Company Replaced The Las Vegas Monorail
Las Vegas Race Riots
Stan Armstrong remembers the day a Rancho High School coach grabbed him by the shirt, threw him into an equipment room, and locked the door. Outside, police helicopters circled overhead. Students shouted. Officers screamed. Armstrong, trapped inside, could hear everything. When the noise stopped, the coach returned, walked Armstrong onto a school bus, and sent… Continue reading Las Vegas Race Riots
Your Ambulances By Billionaires
When someone in Las Vegas calls 911, the ambulance that arrives is owned by Wall Street. American Medical Response and MedicWest Ambulance — the two private companies that hold franchised emergency ambulance contracts with the city of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, and Clark County — are both subsidiaries of Global Medical Response, a Texas-based… Continue reading Your Ambulances By Billionaires
Who Controls Your Water?
Water in Nevada belongs to the public. That is the foundational principle written into state law. But the right to use that water — to pump it, divert it, sell it, or transfer it — belongs to whoever holds a permit issued by a single appointed state official: the State Engineer. The State Engineer is… Continue reading Who Controls Your Water?
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