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.
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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.
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.
Congress Added Snow Mountain to the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe’s Land in 1983. Two Bills Pending Today Would Add Thousands of Acres More.
The Las Vegas Paiute Colony began as 10 acres in downtown Las Vegas, deeded to the tribe by rancher Helen J. Stewart in 1911. In 1983, Congress added a second, far larger parcel eighteen miles northwest of the Colony, creating what the tribe’s own government calls the Snow Mountain Reservation. Forty-two years later, Congress is… Continue reading Congress Added Snow Mountain to the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe’s Land in 1983. Two Bills Pending Today Would Add Thousands of Acres More.
The Culinary Union Chartered in Las Vegas in 1935. Nevada’s Right-to-Work Law Followed Within Two Decades.
The Culinary Union was chartered in Las Vegas on Nov. 1, 1935, four months after Congress passed the federal law that first gave American workers a legal right to organize. Within two decades, that organizing had provoked Nevada lawmakers into passing a right-to-work law of their own, a statute still on the books today, even… Continue reading The Culinary Union Chartered in Las Vegas in 1935. Nevada’s Right-to-Work Law Followed Within Two Decades.
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