A single bill, passed in the final weeks of the 1931 Legislature with almost no opposition, turned every county in Nevada into licensed gambling territory overnight. The state did not ask who was actually running the games for another 24 years — and the regulatory machine built to close that gap is the same one… Continue reading Nevada Legalized Gambling in a Single Day in 1931. It Took the State 24 Years to Ask Who Was Running the Games.
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The Union Whose Members Build the Stadium Also Has a Seat Overseeing It
A labor union secretary-treasurer sits on the public board overseeing the A’s stadium project. His union’s members are the ones doing the construction work the board is supposed to be scrutinizing. Tommy White, secretary-treasurer of the Laborers International Union, Local 872, serves as a voting member of the Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board, according to… Continue reading The Union Whose Members Build the Stadium Also Has a Seat Overseeing It
From State Economic Development Chief to Stadium Board Chairman: One Career, Four Public Appointments
Steve Hill has held leadership roles across nearly every major economic development body in Nevada over the past 15 years. Today he chairs the board overseeing a $380 million stadium subsidy — the latest stop on a career spent almost entirely inside Nevada’s public and quasi-public institutions. Steve Hill was appointed director of Nevada’s Governor’s… Continue reading From State Economic Development Chief to Stadium Board Chairman: One Career, Four Public Appointments
A Wall Street Capital Markets Firm Just Financed 12 Acres Across From Mandalay Bay
A 12-acre stretch of land across the street from Mandalay Bay has sat largely undeveloped for years. A national capital markets firm just lined up the debt and equity to change that. JLL Capital Markets announced it secured land acquisition and development financing for a 12-acre site at the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard… Continue reading A Wall Street Capital Markets Firm Just Financed 12 Acres Across From Mandalay Bay
Helen Stewart Deeded 10 Acres to the United States for the Las Vegas Paiute Colony on Dec. 30, 1911. That Same Parcel Now Hosts One of Nevada’s First Cannabis Lounges.
A Las Vegas rancher deeded ten acres of her property to the federal government in 1911, placing it in trust for a small band of Southern Paiute people living near the springs that gave the city its name. That same ten-acre parcel, a few blocks north of the Fremont Street Experience, now holds one of… Continue reading Helen Stewart Deeded 10 Acres to the United States for the Las Vegas Paiute Colony on Dec. 30, 1911. That Same Parcel Now Hosts One of Nevada’s First Cannabis Lounges.
A U.S. Senate Committee on Organized Crime Spent One Day in Las Vegas on Nov. 15, 1950. Nevada’s Own Gaming Police Still Run a $4 Billion-a-Quarter Industry.
A U.S. Senate committee investigating organized crime’s reach into gambling spent barely a single day in Las Vegas in November 1950, and left having accomplished almost nothing it set out to do. Nevada did not wait for Washington to finish the job. Within five years, the state built its own licensing police force, and that… Continue reading A U.S. Senate Committee on Organized Crime Spent One Day in Las Vegas on Nov. 15, 1950. Nevada’s Own Gaming Police Still Run a $4 Billion-a-Quarter Industry.
A Wall Street-Backed Firm Bought 151 Las Vegas Valley Homes Last Year. They’ll All Become Rentals.
Institutional investors now own roughly a quarter of homes across the Las Vegas metro area. The Trump administration has called it a national problem. In Southern Nevada, the buying hasn’t slowed down. A Wall Street-backed real estate investment trust purchased 151 Las Vegas Valley homes in a single year, with every property destined for the… Continue reading A Wall Street-Backed Firm Bought 151 Las Vegas Valley Homes Last Year. They’ll All Become Rentals.
Some of the People Lobbying Nevada Lawmakers Are Also Running to Become One
Nevada’s lobbyist registry and its candidate filings are two separate public records. Cross-reference them, and the same names start showing up in both. A review of the Nevada Legislature’s lobbyist registry alongside candidate filings maintained by the Nevada Secretary of State shows a number of individuals who are simultaneously registered to lobby state lawmakers and… Continue reading Some of the People Lobbying Nevada Lawmakers Are Also Running to Become One
Nevada’s Revolving-Door Rules Limit Lobbying and Representing Clients for About a Year. They Don’t Limit Who Can Hire a Former Official.
Nevada bars former legislators from being paid to lobby until the end of the next regular session after they leave, and bars other former state and local officials for one year from representing clients on matters their agency handled. Neither rule limits who can hire them. Nevada law bars a former legislator from receiving compensation… Continue reading Nevada’s Revolving-Door Rules Limit Lobbying and Representing Clients for About a Year. They Don’t Limit Who Can Hire a Former Official.
The Same Elected Officials Sit on Nearly Every Board Overseeing Southern Nevada’s Growth
Clark County has a stadium authority, a transportation commission, and a tourism authority — three separate public bodies overseeing three separate multibillion-dollar sectors. Increasingly, the same handful of elected officials sit on all of them. Clark County Commission Chair Tick Segerblom serves simultaneously on the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada’s Board of Commissioners and… Continue reading The Same Elected Officials Sit on Nearly Every Board Overseeing Southern Nevada’s Growth
