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.
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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.
Some of the People Lobbying Nevada Lawmakers Are Also Running to Become One
Nevada’s lobbyist registry and its candidate filings are two separate public records. Cross-reference them, and the same names start showing up in both. A review of the Nevada Legislature’s lobbyist registry alongside candidate filings maintained by the Nevada Secretary of State shows a number of individuals who are simultaneously registered to lobby state lawmakers and… Continue reading Some of the People Lobbying Nevada Lawmakers Are Also Running to Become One
Nevada’s Revolving-Door Rules Limit Lobbying and Representing Clients for About a Year. They Don’t Limit Who Can Hire a Former Official.
Nevada bars former legislators from being paid to lobby until the end of the next regular session after they leave, and bars other former state and local officials for one year from representing clients on matters their agency handled. Neither rule limits who can hire them. Nevada law bars a former legislator from receiving compensation… Continue reading Nevada’s Revolving-Door Rules Limit Lobbying and Representing Clients for About a Year. They Don’t Limit Who Can Hire a Former Official.
The Same Elected Officials Sit on Nearly Every Board Overseeing Southern Nevada’s Growth
Clark County has a stadium authority, a transportation commission, and a tourism authority — three separate public bodies overseeing three separate multibillion-dollar sectors. Increasingly, the same handful of elected officials sit on all of them. Clark County Commission Chair Tick Segerblom serves simultaneously on the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada’s Board of Commissioners and… Continue reading The Same Elected Officials Sit on Nearly Every Board Overseeing Southern Nevada’s Growth
The Man Overseeing the A’s Stadium Subsidy Also Lobbied Lawmakers to Approve It — For Free
Steve Hill chairs the public board overseeing Nevada’s $380 million stadium subsidy for the Athletics. He’s also the tourism authority chief whose staff worked to help secure that same subsidy — and he says there’s no conflict. Steve Hill serves simultaneously as chairman of the Las Vegas Stadium Authority, the public board responsible for overseeing… Continue reading The Man Overseeing the A’s Stadium Subsidy Also Lobbied Lawmakers to Approve It — For Free
Builders Are Paying $1.8 Million an Acre in Summerlin. There’s Almost Nowhere Else Left to Build.
Homebuilders just paid some of the highest land prices in Summerlin’s history — again. The reason isn’t just demand. It’s that Summerlin is now one of the only places left in the Las Vegas Valley where a builder can still buy a double-digit-acre lot. Howard Hughes Holdings sold roughly 63 acres combined to three homebuilders… Continue reading Builders Are Paying $1.8 Million an Acre in Summerlin. There’s Almost Nowhere Else Left to Build.
Welfare Rights Organizers Founded Operation Life in West Las Vegas in 1972. It Once Administered WIC Benefits That a 2025 Federal Shutdown Put at Risk.
Welfare rights organizers in West Las Vegas built their own anti-poverty infrastructure in 1972 rather than wait on Washington, including a program that put food assistance directly into the hands of pregnant women and new mothers. More than 50 years later, a federal government shutdown put that same program’s funding in Nevada at risk, and… Continue reading Welfare Rights Organizers Founded Operation Life in West Las Vegas in 1972. It Once Administered WIC Benefits That a 2025 Federal Shutdown Put at Risk.
Nevada Wrote One Law in 1973 to Merge City and County Police. Three Las Vegas Valley Departments Never Used It, and Washoe County Is Studying It Now.
Nevada wrote one law in 1973 to merge overlapping city and county police agencies into a single department. More than 50 years later, three police departments inside the same Las Vegas Valley still haven’t used it, and Washoe County’s sheriff is now citing that same law as one path toward merging with Reno. The Nevada… Continue reading Nevada Wrote One Law in 1973 to Merge City and County Police. Three Las Vegas Valley Departments Never Used It, and Washoe County Is Studying It Now.
A Hedge Fund Billionaire Now Controls Nearly Half of Summerlin’s Developer. He Wants to Build the Next Berkshire Hathaway.
Bill Ackman spent two years buying his way into Howard Hughes Holdings. Now his hedge fund owns nearly half the company that controls Summerlin’s remaining 35,000 undeveloped acres — and he’s turning it into something Las Vegas hasn’t seen locally before: a diversified Wall Street holding company built around real estate. Pershing Square Capital Management,… Continue reading A Hedge Fund Billionaire Now Controls Nearly Half of Summerlin’s Developer. He Wants to Build the Next Berkshire Hathaway.
