Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents may soon carry gloves built to deliver a painful electric jolt on contact — a purchase the agency plans to award without competitive bidding, as scrutiny mounts over how ICE already uses force in the field. The Department of Homeland Security published a notice this week outlining plans to buy… Continue reading ICE Is Spending Up to $20 Million on Gloves That Shock People. No One Had to Bid for the Contract.
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Trails for Some
Henderson has 300 miles of trails. Summerlin has more than 200. Sunrise Manor, an unincorporated community of 200,000 people on the east side of Las Vegas, has a wash trail, a broken beltway trail segment, and roads built for cars doing 45 miles per hour.
Las Vegas Built Its Way Into a Bigger Flood Problem. The Data Says So.
Southern Nevada’s flood managers built an entire underground system to keep the valley dry. A Nevada research institute says the way the region grew made flooding worse anyway. Researchers at the Desert Research Institute, along with the Clark County Regional Flood Control District and university partners, examined 70 years of flooding data across the Las… Continue reading Las Vegas Built Its Way Into a Bigger Flood Problem. The Data Says So.
A 100-Acre Golf Course Is Becoming a Neighborhood. The Wildlife Living There Wasn’t Consulted.
Desert Pines Golf Club is closing for good, cleared to make way for a mixed-use neighborhood in east Las Vegas. Residents worry about what happens to everything living there now. The Desert Pines Golf Club, a 100-acre course in east Las Vegas, is closing permanently to make way for a new mixed-use community, according to… Continue reading A 100-Acre Golf Course Is Becoming a Neighborhood. The Wildlife Living There Wasn’t Consulted.
A Downtown Apartment Project Just Cut Down the Trees Shading a Bus Stop
Several palm trees that shaded a high-traffic Arts District corridor are gone, cut down for an apartment complex rising in their place. An arborist says the trees didn’t have to die. Several palm trees along Casino Center Boulevard and Coolidge Avenue in the Las Vegas Arts District were cut down this month, leaving stumps where… Continue reading A Downtown Apartment Project Just Cut Down the Trees Shading a Bus Stop
These Las Vegas Students Built a Robot Without a School Team Behind Them
Most robotics teams have a school’s resources behind them — a classroom, a budget, a coach on staff. One team competing at UNLV this year had none of that. Student engineers from across Southern Nevada, the country and the world gathered at UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center this spring for the FIRST Robotics Competition Las… Continue reading These Las Vegas Students Built a Robot Without a School Team Behind Them
The A’s Have Spent $400 Million on Their Vegas Stadium. Taxpayers Haven’t Paid a Dime — Yet.
Nevada and Clark County approved up to $380 million in public money for the Athletics’ new Las Vegas ballpark years ago. The team still hasn’t asked for a single dollar of it — but that’s about to change. Construction on the Athletics’ $2 billion domed stadium on the Strip has passed the $400 million mark,… Continue reading The A’s Have Spent $400 Million on Their Vegas Stadium. Taxpayers Haven’t Paid a Dime — Yet.
Prices Rose Again in July. Wages Didn’t Keep Up.
Inflation cooled slightly last month, but Americans’ paychecks are still losing ground to it, and a weakening job market is giving the Federal Reserve one more reason to hold off on raising interest rates. The Consumer Price Index rose 0.1% in July and 3.4% over the past year, down slightly from June’s 3.5% annual rate,… Continue reading Prices Rose Again in July. Wages Didn’t Keep Up.
A Flood Control Project Is Choking Arts District Businesses During Their Busiest Season
Charleston Boulevard construction has reduced Arts District storefronts to a single lane of visibility. Business owners say nobody asked them first. Construction on a flood control project along Charleston Boulevard has narrowed traffic to a single lane in parts of the 18b Arts District, and business owners say the disruption is driving customers away during… Continue reading A Flood Control Project Is Choking Arts District Businesses During Their Busiest Season
The ACLU Says Metro Is Illegally Overcharging People Who Ask for Public Records
Nevada law says government agencies can only charge what it actually costs to produce a public record. The ACLU says Las Vegas police have been charging whatever they want — and getting away with it. The ACLU of Nevada sued the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department this month, accusing the department of imposing excessive fees… Continue reading The ACLU Says Metro Is Illegally Overcharging People Who Ask for Public Records
