Clark County spent nearly two years rebuilding how it investigates people killed by police, adding an ombudsman and lawyers for officers to a process the public had stopped trusting. The Nevada Supreme Court threw out the entire rebuilt system in one ruling — over a single sentence nobody flagged until officers sued. Nevada law lets… Continue reading The Nevada Supreme Court Struck Down Clark County’s Police-Death Inquest Process in 2012. One Sentence About Who Could Preside Brought Down the Whole System.
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The Nevada Legislature Made Valley of Fire the State’s First State Park in 1935. It Still Closes Its Own Trails Each Summer So the Same Heat Doesn’t Kill Hikers.
Valley of Fire got its name sometime in the 1920s, when an unnamed AAA official reportedly looked at the park’s red sandstone at sunset and said it looked like it was on fire, according to Nevada State Parks’ official history of the site. A century later, the state park built to show off that landscape… Continue reading The Nevada Legislature Made Valley of Fire the State’s First State Park in 1935. It Still Closes Its Own Trails Each Summer So the Same Heat Doesn’t Kill Hikers.
Hattie Canty Became Culinary Union Local 226’s President in 1990. The Strike She Led the Next Year Is Still Called the Longest Labor Strike in American History.
Hattie Canty buried her husband in 1975, raised ten children on a hotel maid’s wages, and by 1990 led Nevada’s largest private-sector union. The strike she’s remembered for lasted six years and ended only after costing one hotel’s owner roughly $1 billion. The multiracial coalition she built inside the Culinary Union is the same one… Continue reading Hattie Canty Became Culinary Union Local 226’s President in 1990. The Strike She Led the Next Year Is Still Called the Longest Labor Strike in American History.
Clark County Renamed a Private Airstrip McCarran Field on Dec. 19, 1948, Honoring Nevada’s Senior Senator. The County Removed His Name From the Same Airport in 2021.
Clark County required $7.2 million in private donations to remove Sen. Pat McCarran’s name from Southern Nevada’s airport in 2021, 73 years after the county itself put that name there. The same public record credits McCarran with winning federal money that helped build the valley’s airports and with writing the 1952 law that tightened who… Continue reading Clark County Renamed a Private Airstrip McCarran Field on Dec. 19, 1948, Honoring Nevada’s Senior Senator. The County Removed His Name From the Same Airport in 2021.
480-Square-Foot Apartments Are Becoming Downtown Las Vegas’s Housing Model. A Third One Just Got Approved.
Developer Sam Cherry has built his downtown housing strategy around apartments smaller than most hotel suites. A third project, with city-subsidized affordable units built in, is now headed toward a 2026 opening. Developer Sam Cherry opened his second shareDowntown apartment complex in the Fremont East district, following his first project in the Arts District in… Continue reading 480-Square-Foot Apartments Are Becoming Downtown Las Vegas’s Housing Model. A Third One Just Got Approved.
The Arts District Just Added 600 New Apartments. The Rest of the Valley Barely Built Any.
A neighborhood that didn’t have a single apartment tower a decade ago just finished two of them. Meanwhile, apartment construction everywhere else in the Las Vegas Valley is sitting at a four-year low. Nashville-based Southern Land Co.’s Gemma, a 337-unit apartment community at the intersection of Third Street and California Avenue, began a phased opening… Continue reading The Arts District Just Added 600 New Apartments. The Rest of the Valley Barely Built Any.
A 17-Story Tower Is Coming to Fremont East. It’s Taller Than Almost Everything Else in the District.
Fremont East has largely stayed low-rise even as downtown grows around it. A newly approved 196-foot tower is about to change that. The Las Vegas City Council approved construction plans for Triple 7 Fremont, a 17-story, 196-foot-tall mixed-use tower planned for the southwest corner of Fremont and 8th streets, according to city records. The project… Continue reading A 17-Story Tower Is Coming to Fremont East. It’s Taller Than Almost Everything Else in the District.
Arts District Business Owners Want to Tax Themselves for Safety and Cleanup. Their Own Neighborhood Association Says No.
A group of Arts District stakeholders launched a petition this fall to create a new taxing district for safety, cleanup and marketing. The neighborhood’s own nonprofit association voted against it. A group of Arts District stakeholders launched a petition effort Sept. 1 to create a Business Improvement District that would fund additional safety, cleanliness and… Continue reading Arts District Business Owners Want to Tax Themselves for Safety and Cleanup. Their Own Neighborhood Association Says No.
The Nevada Legislature Chartered the Stewart Indian School in 1887 to Assimilate Native Children. A Clause in Its 1982 Closure Deed Still Threatens to Send the Land Back to the United States.
Nevada didn’t convert its last federal Indian boarding school into a museum because the state decided, on its own, to reckon with that history. A reversion clause written into the 1982 deed that handed Nevada the land did much of the deciding for it — and that same clause still governs the property today, nearly… Continue reading The Nevada Legislature Chartered the Stewart Indian School in 1887 to Assimilate Native Children. A Clause in Its 1982 Closure Deed Still Threatens to Send the Land Back to the United States.
The Chicago Outfit Installed Gus Greenbaum to Run the Riviera in 1955. He and His Wife Were Murdered in Phoenix Three Years Later, and the Strip Land Beneath It Didn’t Sell Again Until 2024.
The company that once answered to Chicago mob bosses on the Las Vegas Strip later filed its finances with the Securities and Exchange Commission and listed its stock on a public exchange. The land underneath it took even longer to go legitimate. Nevada’s tourism authority didn’t land a buyer for the empty lot until 2024,… Continue reading The Chicago Outfit Installed Gus Greenbaum to Run the Riviera in 1955. He and His Wife Were Murdered in Phoenix Three Years Later, and the Strip Land Beneath It Didn’t Sell Again Until 2024.
