The city says its crews and sewer lines serve county land that the county, not the city, taxes. The county calls the city’s push to renegotiate a money grab. The agreement that decides who can annex what comes up for renewal in December. The City of Las Vegas and Clark County are in open conflict… Continue reading Las Vegas and Clark County Are Fighting Over Who Pays for Fire, Sewer and Parks in the County Islands
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A 15-Year-Old Died at First Friday. The Teenager Charged With Killing Him Is 17, and Nevada Law Sends Him to Adult Court.
Metro police announced an arrest four days after a fight in an Arts District crowd ended in gunfire, and have not released the suspect’s name. Two other people were shot, and police have not said who they are or what started the fight. Gunfire broke out at South Main Street and West Charleston Boulevard shortly… Continue reading A 15-Year-Old Died at First Friday. The Teenager Charged With Killing Him Is 17, and Nevada Law Sends Him to Adult Court.
The 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley Promised the Western Shoshone Peace, Not a Land Cession. Nevada’s Nuclear Test Site Still Sits Inside That Treaty Territory Today.
The United States has never purchased the ground it has used for nuclear weapons testing and, for decades, has studied as a nuclear waste dump in the desert northwest of Las Vegas. It only promised the Western Shoshone peace. That unresolved treaty question is still being cited today in Nevada’s fight against burying nuclear waste… Continue reading The 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley Promised the Western Shoshone Peace, Not a Land Cession. Nevada’s Nuclear Test Site Still Sits Inside That Treaty Territory Today.
Culinary Workers Walked Out of the New Frontier Hotel on Sept. 21, 1991. The Strike Lasted Six Years, Four Months and 10 Days Before Phil Ruffin Bought the Property.
Six years, four months and 10 days is how long it took the Culinary Union to outlast a single Strip hotel owner’s refusal to bargain. Every Culinary contract signed on the Strip since has been negotiated in the shadow of that fact. On Sept. 21, 1991, hospitality workers walked off the job at the New… Continue reading Culinary Workers Walked Out of the New Frontier Hotel on Sept. 21, 1991. The Strike Lasted Six Years, Four Months and 10 Days Before Phil Ruffin Bought the Property.
Nevada Lawmakers Passed a Law in 2003 to Permanently Protect Land Next to Red Rock Canyon. The Nevada Supreme Court Struck It Down a Decade Later.
Whether land next to Red Rock Canyon can be developed has come down to one constitutional question for more than two decades: can Nevada’s Legislature single out one piece of Clark County and freeze its zoning by statute? The Nevada Supreme Court answered no in 2013, and that ruling — not any new law —… Continue reading Nevada Lawmakers Passed a Law in 2003 to Permanently Protect Land Next to Red Rock Canyon. The Nevada Supreme Court Struck It Down a Decade Later.
The NAACP Threatened a Las Vegas Strip March in 1960. The Moulin Rouge Agreement That Stopped It Still Gets Its Own Nevada Proclamation.
Nevada’s governor still issues an annual proclamation for a meeting that took place at a Las Vegas hotel on March 26, 1960. The agreement reached that day opened Strip and downtown casinos to Black customers for the first time — not through a court ruling, but through a negotiation brokered under the threat of a… Continue reading The NAACP Threatened a Las Vegas Strip March in 1960. The Moulin Rouge Agreement That Stopped It Still Gets Its Own Nevada Proclamation.
Nevada Lawmakers Created a Room-Tax Board in 1955 to Build a Convention Hall. The Same Agency Just Spent $1 Billion to Keep the Bet Going.
The strategy hasn’t changed in 70 years: outbuild every other city chasing the same conventions, and let hotel guests cover the bill. Nevada lawmakers started that bet in 1955 with a tax on hotel rooms. The agency they created is still making it, most recently with a $1 billion hall and an underground tunnel system… Continue reading Nevada Lawmakers Created a Room-Tax Board in 1955 to Build a Convention Hall. The Same Agency Just Spent $1 Billion to Keep the Bet Going.
Sheldon Adelson’s Group Bought the Sands for $110 Million in 1989. Las Vegas Sands Sold the Resort Built on Its Site for $6.25 Billion in 2022.
The company that pioneered Las Vegas’s modern mega-resort template no longer owns the resort it built. Las Vegas Sands Corp. sold The Venetian Resort for $6.25 billion in 2022, completing a withdrawal from the Strip that traces back to a hotel financed seven decades earlier by a Texas gambler and a Cleveland casino operator. The… Continue reading Sheldon Adelson’s Group Bought the Sands for $110 Million in 1989. Las Vegas Sands Sold the Resort Built on Its Site for $6.25 Billion in 2022.
The Las Vegas Valley Water District Bought a Private Water Company for $2.5 Million in 1952. It’s Now One of Seven Agencies Serving More Than 2 Million Southern Nevadans.
Las Vegas chose in 1947 to walk away from the valley’s own groundwater and tie its future permanently to the Colorado River. That single choice, made before Clark County had even formed the agency to carry it out, still decides where every drop of water in the Las Vegas Valley comes from today. Nevada’s Legislature… Continue reading The Las Vegas Valley Water District Bought a Private Water Company for $2.5 Million in 1952. It’s Now One of Seven Agencies Serving More Than 2 Million Southern Nevadans.
Jay Sarno Opened Caesars Palace for $24 Million in 1966. A Restaurant Company Bought It for $60 Million Three Years Later.
Las Vegas Strip casinos increasingly split into two separate businesses: one company owns the ground and buildings, another runs the gambling on top of it. That split did not start with Wall Street real estate trusts. It started when the man who built Caesars Palace sold it to a restaurant company three years after the… Continue reading Jay Sarno Opened Caesars Palace for $24 Million in 1966. A Restaurant Company Bought It for $60 Million Three Years Later.
