Las mayores inversiones de tránsito del sur de Nevada —una Stewart Avenue reconstruida, una subvención de planificación para el corredor de Charleston Boulevard y la nueva línea de tránsito rápido de autobuses de Maryland Parkway— llegaron, al menos en el único caso con criterios de equidad documentados, a un corredor de menores ingresos y mayoría… Continue reading El Carril para Bicicletas Llega Primero. El Aumento de Renta Llega Después.
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Nevada Puso a Un Solo Oficial en la Patrulla de Carreteras en 1923. Su Agencia Sucesora Ahora Tiene un Tercio de Sus Puestos de Agente en Las Vegas Vacíos.
Nevada puso a su primer patrullero de carreteras pagado en la carretera el 23 de junio de 1923, un solo oficial que respondía al departamento estatal de carreteras. La Legislatura tardó hasta 1949 en organizar formalmente una división de patrulla a nivel estatal, y hasta 2021 en renombrar esa división como Policía Estatal de Nevada.… Continue reading Nevada Puso a Un Solo Oficial en la Patrulla de Carreteras en 1923. Su Agencia Sucesora Ahora Tiene un Tercio de Sus Puestos de Agente en Las Vegas Vacíos.
Basic Magnesium Inc. Built Henderson to Make Wartime Metal in 1942. The Industrial Complex It Left Behind Is Still Being Cleaned Up.
Henderson exists because the federal government needed magnesium for World War II ordnance and aircraft, and chose a stretch of desert near Hoover Dam to make it. More than eight decades later, the industrial complex that grew out of that wartime plant is still an active environmental cleanup site, with hundreds of thousands of pounds… Continue reading Basic Magnesium Inc. Built Henderson to Make Wartime Metal in 1942. The Industrial Complex It Left Behind Is Still Being Cleaned Up.
A 1980 Fire at the MGM Grand Killed 85 People. Its Legal Fallout Helped Push Kirk Kerkorian to Sell the Casino Six Years Later.
A fire that tore through the MGM Grand casino floor in six minutes in 1980 left the hotel’s owner facing well over a hundred million dollars in legal liability. Kirk Kerkorian sold the property to a publicly traded conglomerate before the decade was out, a transaction that previewed the layered corporate ownership structure running the… Continue reading A 1980 Fire at the MGM Grand Killed 85 People. Its Legal Fallout Helped Push Kirk Kerkorian to Sell the Casino Six Years Later.
California Fined the Company That Runs Your Kid’s Game. Nevada Hasn’t Even Asked.
A California regulator fined PlayOn Sports $1.1 million this year for tracking students and families without real consent, then routing tickets they’d already paid for behind a forced-consent screen. PlayOn is the same KKR-backed company that now runs ticketing and postseason streaming for Nevada’s high school sports through the NIAA. Nevada’s privacy law is structurally… Continue reading California Fined the Company That Runs Your Kid’s Game. Nevada Hasn’t Even Asked.
The Bike Lane Comes First. The Rent Increase Comes Next.
Southern Nevada’s biggest transit investments — a rebuilt Stewart Avenue, a planning grant for the Charleston Boulevard corridor, and the new Maryland Parkway bus rapid transit line — went, at least in the one case with documented equity criteria attached, to a lower-income, majority-minority corridor. What the record shows independently is a documented pattern of… Continue reading The Bike Lane Comes First. The Rent Increase Comes Next.
Why Las Vegas Is One of the Fastest-Warming Cities in America
Las Vegas and Reno have ranked among the two fastest-warming cities in the entire country for years running. The reason isn’t just global climate change. It’s what pavement and concrete do to a desert once you build a city on top of it. Climate Central, a nonpartisan nonprofit made up of climate scientists, analyzes average… Continue reading Why Las Vegas Is One of the Fastest-Warming Cities in America
The Greenhouse Effect, Explained: How a Trace Gas Warms an Entire Planet
Carbon dioxide makes up less than half a percent of Earth’s atmosphere. That tiny fraction is the main reason the planet has warmed as fast as it has over the past century. The greenhouse effect itself is not the problem. NASA describes it as the reason Earth is habitable at all: certain gases in the… Continue reading The Greenhouse Effect, Explained: How a Trace Gas Warms an Entire Planet
Nevada Built a Public Health System Around a Single Behavior: Gambling
Nevada treats compulsive gambling the way other states treat a public health crisis, with a dedicated fund, a state advisory council, and its own annual research report tracking outcomes. The Nevada Legislature passed Senate Bill 357 in 2005, creating the Problem Gambling Fund and, alongside it, the Advisory Council on Problem Gambling, a state-appointed panel… Continue reading Nevada Built a Public Health System Around a Single Behavior: Gambling
El Congreso Añadió Snow Mountain a las Tierras de la Tribu Paiute de Las Vegas en 1983. Dos Proyectos de Ley Pendientes Hoy Añadirían Miles de Acres Más.
La Colonia Paiute de Las Vegas comenzó como 10 acres en el centro de Las Vegas, cedidos a la tribu por la ranchera Helen J. Stewart en 1911. En 1983, el Congreso añadió una segunda parcela mucho más grande, dieciocho millas al noroeste de la Colonia, creando lo que el propio gobierno de la tribu… Continue reading El Congreso Añadió Snow Mountain a las Tierras de la Tribu Paiute de Las Vegas en 1983. Dos Proyectos de Ley Pendientes Hoy Añadirían Miles de Acres Más.
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