In 1917, three men discovered manganese in the Mojave Desert eight miles from what would become Henderson. They called the mine Three Kids. The material went into weapons and equipment during World War I. When the war ended a year later, demand collapsed and the site went quiet. B.R. Jefferson, one of the mine’s founders,… Continue reading The Town That Henderson Swallowed
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The Pipeline Under The Petroglyphs
On February 26, 2026, the United States Senate unanimously passed the Sloan Canyon Conservation and Lateral Pipeline Act. The bill grants the Southern Nevada Water Authority rights to tunnel 40 miles beneath the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area to construct a pipeline capable of carrying 375 million gallons of water per day to Henderson and… Continue reading The Pipeline Under The Petroglyphs
Whatever You Want, Ben
In 2023, a Skydio sales representative sent a customer proposal to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. LVMPD Chief of Staff Mike Gennaro forwarded the email to venture capitalist Ben Horowitz, asking which deployment option the department should choose. Horowitz replied with a question: Which deployment are you looking to do? Gennaro’s response, according to… Continue reading Whatever You Want, Ben
How The Bboring Company Replaced The Las Vegas Monorail
In May 2019, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority awarded a $48.7 million contract to Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build an underground tunnel system beneath the Las Vegas Convention Center. Construction began six months later. What followed over the next five years was not simply the arrival of a new transit technology —… Continue reading How The Bboring Company Replaced The Las Vegas Monorail
Las Vegas Race Riots
Stan Armstrong remembers the day a Rancho High School coach grabbed him by the shirt, threw him into an equipment room, and locked the door. Outside, police helicopters circled overhead. Students shouted. Officers screamed. Armstrong, trapped inside, could hear everything. When the noise stopped, the coach returned, walked Armstrong onto a school bus, and sent… Continue reading Las Vegas Race Riots
Your Ambulances By Billionaires
When someone in Las Vegas calls 911, the ambulance that arrives is owned by Wall Street. American Medical Response and MedicWest Ambulance — the two private companies that hold franchised emergency ambulance contracts with the city of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, and Clark County — are both subsidiaries of Global Medical Response, a Texas-based… Continue reading Your Ambulances By Billionaires
Who Controls Your Water?
Water in Nevada belongs to the public. That is the foundational principle written into state law. But the right to use that water — to pump it, divert it, sell it, or transfer it — belongs to whoever holds a permit issued by a single appointed state official: the State Engineer. The State Engineer is… Continue reading Who Controls Your Water?
Water Cloud Wars
In December 2022, DigitalBridge Group and IFM Investors completed an $11 billion acquisition of Switch, the Las Vegas-based data center operator that runs some of the largest digital infrastructure campuses in the United States. The transaction pulled Switch off the New York Stock Exchange and made it a private company owned by infrastructure investment firms… Continue reading Water Cloud Wars
Wallstreet Bets On Nevada Water Rights
In 2022, D.R. Horton — one of the nation’s largest homebuilders — paid $291 million to acquire a 12-employee company operating out of a faux-Mediterranean office park in Carson City. The purchase was not for the staff or the real estate. It was for the water. Vidler Water Company spent two decades buying up remote… Continue reading Wallstreet Bets On Nevada Water Rights
10 years Of The Charter School Voucher Program
Between the 2019-2020 and 2024-2025 school years, the number of students attending charter schools in Clark County grew by 26 percent — from approximately 50,800 to 64,128 students, according to Nevada Department of Education enrollment data. In that same period, Clark County School District enrollment declined by more than 8 percent. From August 2022 to… Continue reading 10 years Of The Charter School Voucher Program
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