On July 1, 1973, the Las Vegas Police Department and the Clark County Sheriff’s Department stopped existing, replaced by a single agency the Nevada Legislature built to end duplicate law enforcement spending across the valley. Fifty-three years later, on April 30, 2026, the five-member committee that same law created approved a $958 million budget for… Continue reading Nevada’s 1973 Police Merger Created LVMPD. Its Budget Just Hit $958 Million.
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Nevada Created Its ‘Black Book’ in 1960 to Banish the Mob From Casinos. This Year It Added the Bookmaker Behind the Ohtani Scandal.
Nevada built its casino exclusion list in 1960 to bar organized crime and its Corporate Gaming Act in 1969 to replace mob capital with public markets. In April 2026, the same list gained its 39th name: the bookmaker at the center of the Shohei Ohtani theft case.
The Moapa Paiutes’ Reservation Was Set Aside in 1873. A Coal Plant Polluted It for 50 Years Before the Tribe Turned to Solar.
President Grant set aside land for the Moapa Band of Paiutes in 1873. A coal plant built 500 feet away polluted it for five decades. The tribe’s reservation now hosts some of the largest tribal solar development in the country.
Nevada Desegregated Its Casinos in 1960. The Historic Westside Waited 66 Years for Investment to Follow.
In 1960, a threatened NAACP march forced Nevada’s governor and Las Vegas’s mayor to desegregate Strip casinos at the Moulin Rouge. Sixty-six years later, the neighborhood that forced that deal just broke ground on its first major federal housing investment.
Nevada’s Colorado River Allocation Was Set in 1928. Washington Just Cut It by a Sixth.
Nevada’s 300,000-acre-foot Colorado River share was fixed by Congress in 1928. On Aug. 21, 2026, Washington cut it by another 50,000 acre-feet — a sixth of the original allocation.
Nevada Merged Las Vegas Police in 1973 and Elected the Sheriff. Its Only Civilian Watchdog Still Can’t Overrule Him.
Nevada merged Las Vegas policing into one department in 1973 and put an elected sheriff in charge of it, answerable to voters rather than to the city council or county commission that funds the agency. When the state finally built a civilian body to review complaints against officers, nearly a quarter-century later, it built one… Continue reading Nevada Merged Las Vegas Police in 1973 and Elected the Sheriff. Its Only Civilian Watchdog Still Can’t Overrule Him.
The Family That Bought the Room
Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta built their fortune on the backs of Las Vegas working class residents. They donated more than $6 million to Donald Trump. Federal labor authorities found them guilty of some of the largest labor law violations in American history. Their cousin, a sitting U.S. Ambassador appointed by Trump, just announced a $17.6… Continue reading The Family That Bought the Room
One Street Over
Cross Russell Road from Henderson into ZIP code 89122 and the infrastructure changes. Raised, separated bike lanes give way to painted stripes on crumbling asphalt, dirt shoulders, and paths that simply stop. The line is a city limit.
Nevada’s Longest Strike Is Why AI Can’t Just Cut Vegas Jobs Overnight
The Culinary Union spent six years and four months on a picket line at the New Frontier in the 1990s. That endurance is the reason Las Vegas hospitality contracts now require advance notice, retraining and severance before AI can replace a worker’s job.
Built Unequal
Southern Nevada generated $87.7 billion in tourism revenue in 2024. The roads, sidewalks, flood channels, parks, and transit stops in its poorest neighborhoods tell a different story. Clark County’s own research confirms it.
