The firm behind the 1989 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco now controls the streaming rights, ticketing platform, and athlete data for high school sports in Nevada and across the country. KKR’s $744 billion empire has quietly built a tollbooth around the games that once cost nothing to watch. If a grandparent in Henderson wants to… Continue reading WALL STREET BOUGHT YOUR KID’S HIGH SCHOOL GAME
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THE RED WALL COMES TO NEVADA
Turning Point Action opened a Las Vegas headquarters in March 2026, announcing plans to hire more than 140 staff and target low-propensity Republican voters ahead of the midterms. The organization’s COO is under state criminal indictment. Its Nevada launch partner signed a fake elector document in 2020. The money funding the operation is largely untraceable.… Continue reading THE RED WALL COMES TO NEVADA
WHO OWNS THE ARTS DISTRICT
In March 2026, 1025 Main Street LLC filed a lawsuit in Clark County District Court against Taverna Costera, the restaurant and live music venue at 1031 South Main Street, which owner Jeff Hwang has operated in the Arts District for five years. The stated cause was excessive noise. The landlord’s attorney said the suit came… Continue reading WHO OWNS THE ARTS DISTRICT
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
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
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
THE CASES THAT WON’T CLOSE
On the morning of Jan. 8, 2020, residents in a North Las Vegas neighborhood near Ann Road and Clayton Street called 911 to report a man passed out in the gutter on the 5600 block of Indian Springs Drive. When officers arrived, they found 25-year-old Sidney De’Trae McKnight lying face down with a gunshot wound… Continue reading THE CASES THAT WON’T CLOSE
McMahill Announces Technology Expansion
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill delivered his annual State of the Department address this week, announcing two major initiatives: a global intelligence network called Project Meridian and an artificial intelligence system designed to connect every technology platform the department operates. The announcements came alongside statistics showing significant reductions in violent crime. Officer-involved… Continue reading McMahill Announces Technology Expansion
Was Policy Followed?
In the early hours of February 3, 2026, an officer-involved shooting inside a South Maryland Parkway apartment complex left both 28-year-old Quinton Baker and his young child dead, raising urgent questions about decision-making, training practices, and the handling of high-risk encounters involving mental-health crises. The incident began when a woman called police reporting that Baker… Continue reading Was Policy Followed?
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