Nevada doesn’t just have a revolving door between government and lobbying. At one firm, it has a hereditary one. R&R Partners, one of Nevada’s largest advertising and public affairs firms, operates a government affairs division representing major interests including NV Energy, the Nevada Resort Association and the Nevada Mining Association, according to the firm’s own… Continue reading One Lobbying Firm, Three Families, Decades of Access to Nevada’s Biggest Industries
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Nevada Lawmakers Tried to Double the Lobbying Cooling-Off Period. It Didn’t Pass.
A bill that would have made former Nevada legislators wait two full years before lobbying the Legislature died without becoming law. Michigan passed nearly the same idea this year. Companion bills Senate Bill 641 and Assembly Bill 574 would have extended Nevada’s lobbying cooling-off period from roughly one year to two years for both legislators… Continue reading Nevada Lawmakers Tried to Double the Lobbying Cooling-Off Period. It Didn’t Pass.
President Grant Set Aside the Walker River Reservation by Executive Order on March 19, 1874. Upstream Irrigation Has Dropped the Lake Inside It 150 Feet Since 1882.
Washington kept its 1874 promise to the Agai Dicutta people down to the acre. It never made the same promise to the lake that promise was built around, and the lake has been paying for it ever since. The land around Walker Lake, then part of the Utah Territory, was set aside for “Indian purposes”… Continue reading President Grant Set Aside the Walker River Reservation by Executive Order on March 19, 1874. Upstream Irrigation Has Dropped the Lake Inside It 150 Feet Since 1882.
Nevada Legalized Gambling in a Single Day in 1931. It Took the State 24 Years to Ask Who Was Running the Games.
A single bill, passed in the final weeks of the 1931 Legislature with almost no opposition, turned every county in Nevada into licensed gambling territory overnight. The state did not ask who was actually running the games for another 24 years — and the regulatory machine built to close that gap is the same one… Continue reading Nevada Legalized Gambling in a Single Day in 1931. It Took the State 24 Years to Ask Who Was Running the Games.
The Union Whose Members Build the Stadium Also Has a Seat Overseeing It
A labor union secretary-treasurer sits on the public board overseeing the A’s stadium project. His union’s members are the ones doing the construction work the board is supposed to be scrutinizing. Tommy White, secretary-treasurer of the Laborers International Union, Local 872, serves as a voting member of the Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board, according to… Continue reading The Union Whose Members Build the Stadium Also Has a Seat Overseeing It
From State Economic Development Chief to Stadium Board Chairman: One Career, Four Public Appointments
Steve Hill has held leadership roles across nearly every major economic development body in Nevada over the past 15 years. Today he chairs the board overseeing a $380 million stadium subsidy — the latest stop on a career spent almost entirely inside Nevada’s public and quasi-public institutions. Steve Hill was appointed director of Nevada’s Governor’s… Continue reading From State Economic Development Chief to Stadium Board Chairman: One Career, Four Public Appointments
A Wall Street Capital Markets Firm Just Financed 12 Acres Across From Mandalay Bay
A 12-acre stretch of land across the street from Mandalay Bay has sat largely undeveloped for years. A national capital markets firm just lined up the debt and equity to change that. JLL Capital Markets announced it secured land acquisition and development financing for a 12-acre site at the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard… Continue reading A Wall Street Capital Markets Firm Just Financed 12 Acres Across From Mandalay Bay
Helen Stewart Deeded 10 Acres to the United States for the Las Vegas Paiute Colony on Dec. 30, 1911. That Same Parcel Now Hosts One of Nevada’s First Cannabis Lounges.
A Las Vegas rancher deeded ten acres of her property to the federal government in 1911, placing it in trust for a small band of Southern Paiute people living near the springs that gave the city its name. That same ten-acre parcel, a few blocks north of the Fremont Street Experience, now holds one of… Continue reading Helen Stewart Deeded 10 Acres to the United States for the Las Vegas Paiute Colony on Dec. 30, 1911. That Same Parcel Now Hosts One of Nevada’s First Cannabis Lounges.
A U.S. Senate Committee on Organized Crime Spent One Day in Las Vegas on Nov. 15, 1950. Nevada’s Own Gaming Police Still Run a $4 Billion-a-Quarter Industry.
A U.S. Senate committee investigating organized crime’s reach into gambling spent barely a single day in Las Vegas in November 1950, and left having accomplished almost nothing it set out to do. Nevada did not wait for Washington to finish the job. Within five years, the state built its own licensing police force, and that… Continue reading A U.S. Senate Committee on Organized Crime Spent One Day in Las Vegas on Nov. 15, 1950. Nevada’s Own Gaming Police Still Run a $4 Billion-a-Quarter Industry.
A Wall Street-Backed Firm Bought 151 Las Vegas Valley Homes Last Year. They’ll All Become Rentals.
Institutional investors now own roughly a quarter of homes across the Las Vegas metro area. The Trump administration has called it a national problem. In Southern Nevada, the buying hasn’t slowed down. A Wall Street-backed real estate investment trust purchased 151 Las Vegas Valley homes in a single year, with every property destined for the… Continue reading A Wall Street-Backed Firm Bought 151 Las Vegas Valley Homes Last Year. They’ll All Become Rentals.
