The federal government sold 22 parcels of public land across the Las Vegas Valley this spring. Most of the proceeds are earmarked for statewide projects — not the neighborhoods the land came from. The Bureau of Land Management proposed the sale of 22 parcels of public land across the Las Vegas Valley, with nine parcels… Continue reading The BLM Sold Off 22 Parcels of Las Vegas Land This Year. Most of the Money Didn’t Stay Local.
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Congress Shrank a Nevada Reservation to 1,000 Acres in 1875. Its Land Now Helps Power the Grid.
In 1875, the federal government cut a Nevada Indian reservation from roughly 2 million acres down to 1,000 — one of the steepest land losses in the state’s history. A century and a half later, the same reservation is home to a battery storage system built where a coal plant once stood, and Congress is… Continue reading Congress Shrank a Nevada Reservation to 1,000 Acres in 1875. Its Land Now Helps Power the Grid.
The BLM Approved a Data Center Near Lake Mead Without Telling Boulder City First
A company won approval to build a solar farm on federal land near Boulder City in 2023. This summer, the same approval got quietly transferred to an 86-acre AI data center instead — without a new environmental review or a single conversation with the city it sits inside. The Bureau of Land Management approved an… Continue reading The BLM Approved a Data Center Near Lake Mead Without Telling Boulder City First
Americans Have Vandalized Police Surveillance Cameras in at Least 36 States
A quiet, decentralized backlash against a license-plate-tracking company has turned into one of the most visible acts of civil disobedience against surveillance technology in years — camera by camera, pole by pole. Flock Safety cameras, automated license plate readers used by more than 5,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide, have been vandalized, disabled or stolen in… Continue reading Americans Have Vandalized Police Surveillance Cameras in at Least 36 States
Israel Admits Firing on Hind Rajab’s Car After Two Years of Denial
For two years, Israel said its soldiers weren’t near the car. On Wednesday, it admitted they fired on it, then opened a criminal probe into the killing of a five-year-old girl. Hind Rajab died in Gaza City on January 29, 2024, after Israeli forces opened fire on the car carrying her and six family members… Continue reading Israel Admits Firing on Hind Rajab’s Car After Two Years of Denial
Jobless Claims Keep Falling. The War With Iran Is Still Showing Up in Prices.
The labor market keeps sending calm signals even as the war economy behind it gets louder — layoffs remain rare, but the price of that stability is being paid at the gas pump. Initial claims for unemployment benefits fell by 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 206,000 for the week ending August 15, the Labor Department… Continue reading Jobless Claims Keep Falling. The War With Iran Is Still Showing Up in Prices.
It’s Been Nine Days Since the Storm Hit Gary, Indiana. The Power Still Isn’t Back.
Thousands of families in northwest Indiana are throwing out spoiled food, lining up for hot meals and hunting for a place to charge a phone — more than a week after a storm hit, and with no firm date for when the lights come back on. Tens of thousands of residents in northwest Indiana entered… Continue reading It’s Been Nine Days Since the Storm Hit Gary, Indiana. The Power Still Isn’t Back.
A Congresswoman Is Racing to Stop Trump’s Name From Going Back Up at the Kennedy Center
A federal judge already ordered Trump’s name removed from the Kennedy Center once. Now the same judge has to decide whether the center’s Trump-appointed board can put it back up in three places at once. Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, filed an emergency motion Thursday night asking U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper to block the Kennedy… Continue reading A Congresswoman Is Racing to Stop Trump’s Name From Going Back Up at the Kennedy Center
Nevada Got the Smallest Slice of the Colorado River in 1928. A New Deal Just Locked That Math in Through 2036.
In 1928, Congress gave Nevada the smallest share of the Colorado River of any state that touches it — 300,000 acre-feet a year, a number nobody expected the state to ever need in full. Nearly a century later, that same fixed number is the hard ceiling on growth for one of the fastest-growing states in… Continue reading Nevada Got the Smallest Slice of the Colorado River in 1928. A New Deal Just Locked That Math in Through 2036.
The Meeting That Desegregated Las Vegas Took 24 Hours. The City Never Fully Reckoned With What Came After.
One meeting inside a coffee shop on the Westside ended legal segregation in Las Vegas overnight in 1960. It didn’t end the underlying conditions that created it — and nine years later, that gap boiled over into violence just blocks away. The Moulin Rouge Agreement was reached March 26, 1960, at the coffee shop of… Continue reading The Meeting That Desegregated Las Vegas Took 24 Hours. The City Never Fully Reckoned With What Came After.
