A Las Vegas resident has spent more than a decade calling doctors. Five different specialists, same problem, no answers. She is immunocompromised, on disability, and watching her monthly income drop as Medicare costs kick in. She spent two hours on hold with the welfare office just to learn she qualifies for a program that might… Continue reading Nobody Knows What to Do With This Patient
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Wired to Connect, Built to Isolate
Science has documented for decades that loneliness kills. It is a greater risk factor for premature death than smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. It drives inflammation, heart disease, dementia, and suicide. Nevada ranks last in the country for mental health outcomes. No city or county in this state has declared it a crisis. Las Vegas… Continue reading Wired to Connect, Built to Isolate
Two Roads, Two Plans
Henderson is spending $184 million to rebuild its 7.5 miles of Boulder Highway into a multimodal corridor with bike lanes, wide sidewalks, and a center bus rapid transit system. Clark County’s answer for its unincorporated stretch of the same road is $504,000 worth of chain-link fence. The people dying on the Clark County side are… Continue reading Two Roads, Two Plans
Is The Tree Rotten?
From 2016 to 2026, LVMPD officers have been arrested for domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, unlawful detention, and evidence tampering. The department has responded with suspensions and press releases. The oversight board watching them lacks the power to do much else. In the span of two weeks last December, three LVMPD officers were arrested… Continue reading Is The Tree Rotten?
THE INVISIBLE LANDLORD
The Canvas hack and the high school sports pipeline are the visible edge of KKR’s Nevada presence. The rest runs through your dentist’s office, your grandmother’s hospice bed, your retirement annuity, the mortgage on a Las Vegas apartment complex, the book your child reads for class, and the vet clinic where you take your dog.… Continue reading THE INVISIBLE LANDLORD
Data Breach Ignored By Private Equity
On May 7, 2026, a criminal hacking group calling itself ShinyHunters replaced the Canvas login page used by the Clark County School District and UNLV with a ransom demand. Canvas is owned by Instructure. Instructure is owned by KKR. The same firm that streams your kid’s Friday night football game, processes the ticket, tracks the… Continue reading Data Breach Ignored By Private Equity
WHAT LOYALTY BUYS IN TRUMP’S WASHINGTON
Dana White built a $12 billion combat sports empire alongside Donald Trump. Larry Ellison paid to host his fundraisers and stood beside him at the White House. His son David traded a Democratic donor history for ringside seats at UFC fights and a $16 million settlement that cleared the path to a media merger. Each… Continue reading WHAT LOYALTY BUYS IN TRUMP’S WASHINGTON
ONE MAN, TWO HATS, AND THE PRIVATE EQUITY CHAIN BEHIND DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS HOUSING
Jason LeDell is listed simultaneously as former managing partner of Cherry Development, which builds workforce housing in downtown Las Vegas, and as corporate broker and regional manager of RHOME, a property management company explicitly backed by Associa, the largest HOA management company in the United States. Associa received a private equity investment from Summit Partners… Continue reading ONE MAN, TWO HATS, AND THE PRIVATE EQUITY CHAIN BEHIND DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS HOUSING
THE FIRM THAT WANTS TO OWN EVERY SPORT IN LAS VEGAS
In the span of five days, KKR launched a commercial vehicle to bring professional soccer to new American markets, a Las Vegas group submitted a bid to relocate an MLS franchise here, and a $10 billion NBA expansion process targeting Las Vegas entered its formal phase. None of these events are unrelated. KKR has minority… Continue reading THE FIRM THAT WANTS TO OWN EVERY SPORT IN LAS VEGAS
WALL STREET BOUGHT YOUR KID’S HIGH SCHOOL GAME
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
KVIG Informative 