Axon invested in Flock Safety in 2020, deepened that partnership through 2024, launched a directly competing license-plate-reader product in April 2025, then cut Flock off from its evidence platform three months later without explaining why. None of it required Axon to lift a finger against Flock’s reputation — the backlash was already public, grassroots, and… Continue reading Axon Spent Five Years Inside Flock’s Business. Now It’s Walking Away, Right As Flock’s Reputation Is Questioned.
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One Company Runs a Third of Clark County’s Charter Schools. Its Own Founder Owns the Building It Rents Back to Them.
Academica, a Florida-based for-profit company, manages roughly a third of Southern Nevada’s charter campuses through service contracts layered on top of nonprofit school boards. One of those contracts routes public per-pupil funding through a warehouse-district property owned by Academica’s own founder, at more than five times the going commercial rate. Nevada’s Legislature tried to ban… Continue reading One Company Runs a Third of Clark County’s Charter Schools. Its Own Founder Owns the Building It Rents Back to Them.
The BID Taking Over The Arts District
A new Business Improvement District petition whose organizing board includes the neighborhood’s largest private developer and a commercial landlord that won’t say who owns it. The actual private-equity exposure in the district runs through separate channels. What “the bid” actually is A group of Arts District property and business stakeholders filed a petition Sept. 2,… Continue reading The BID Taking Over The Arts District
The U.S. Sued Over Truckee River Water Rights in 1913 on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe’s Behalf. A Final Decree Didn’t Come for 31 Years.
Reno, Sparks and the farms of the Lahontan Valley still divide Truckee River water today under an operating agreement signed in 2008 and a court decree that dates to 1944 — the end point of a fight over the river that the federal government first took to court in 1913, on behalf of the Pyramid… Continue reading The U.S. Sued Over Truckee River Water Rights in 1913 on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe’s Behalf. A Final Decree Didn’t Come for 31 Years.
Hoover Dam’s Construction Workers Walked Off the Job in August 1931. The Government Deputized Marshals to Keep Six Companies Building.
Nevada’s construction workforce today can organize, strike and sue under federal labor law. None of that existed for the roughly 21,000 people who built Hoover Dam under a private contractor’s total control of their jobs, their housing and their town. When Six Companies’ workers walked off the job in August 1931, the federal government’s response… Continue reading Hoover Dam’s Construction Workers Walked Off the Job in August 1931. The Government Deputized Marshals to Keep Six Companies Building.
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.
Nevada Put One Officer on Highway Patrol in 1923. Its Successor Agency Now Has a Third of Its Las Vegas Trooper Jobs Empty.
Nevada put its first paid highway patrolman on the road on June 23, 1923, a single officer answering to the state highway department. It took until 1949 for the Legislature to formally organize a statewide patrol division, and until 2021 for the state to rename that division the Nevada State Police. A century after that… Continue reading Nevada Put One Officer on Highway Patrol in 1923. Its Successor Agency Now Has a Third of Its Las Vegas Trooper Jobs Empty.
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