Steve Hill chairs the public board overseeing Nevada’s $380 million stadium subsidy for the Athletics. He’s also the tourism authority chief whose staff worked to help secure that same subsidy — and he says there’s no conflict. Steve Hill serves simultaneously as chairman of the Las Vegas Stadium Authority, the public board responsible for overseeing… Continue reading The Man Overseeing the A’s Stadium Subsidy Also Lobbied Lawmakers to Approve It — For Free
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Builders Are Paying $1.8 Million an Acre in Summerlin. There’s Almost Nowhere Else Left to Build.
Homebuilders just paid some of the highest land prices in Summerlin’s history — again. The reason isn’t just demand. It’s that Summerlin is now one of the only places left in the Las Vegas Valley where a builder can still buy a double-digit-acre lot. Howard Hughes Holdings sold roughly 63 acres combined to three homebuilders… Continue reading Builders Are Paying $1.8 Million an Acre in Summerlin. There’s Almost Nowhere Else Left to Build.
Welfare Rights Organizers Founded Operation Life in West Las Vegas in 1972. It Once Administered WIC Benefits That a 2025 Federal Shutdown Put at Risk.
Welfare rights organizers in West Las Vegas built their own anti-poverty infrastructure in 1972 rather than wait on Washington, including a program that put food assistance directly into the hands of pregnant women and new mothers. More than 50 years later, a federal government shutdown put that same program’s funding in Nevada at risk, and… Continue reading Welfare Rights Organizers Founded Operation Life in West Las Vegas in 1972. It Once Administered WIC Benefits That a 2025 Federal Shutdown Put at Risk.
Nevada Wrote One Law in 1973 to Merge City and County Police. Three Las Vegas Valley Departments Never Used It, and Washoe County Is Studying It Now.
Nevada wrote one law in 1973 to merge overlapping city and county police agencies into a single department. More than 50 years later, three police departments inside the same Las Vegas Valley still haven’t used it, and Washoe County’s sheriff is now citing that same law as one path toward merging with Reno. The Nevada… Continue reading Nevada Wrote One Law in 1973 to Merge City and County Police. Three Las Vegas Valley Departments Never Used It, and Washoe County Is Studying It Now.
A Hedge Fund Billionaire Now Controls Nearly Half of Summerlin’s Developer. He Wants to Build the Next Berkshire Hathaway.
Bill Ackman spent two years buying his way into Howard Hughes Holdings. Now his hedge fund owns nearly half the company that controls Summerlin’s remaining 35,000 undeveloped acres — and he’s turning it into something Las Vegas hasn’t seen locally before: a diversified Wall Street holding company built around real estate. Pershing Square Capital Management,… Continue reading A Hedge Fund Billionaire Now Controls Nearly Half of Summerlin’s Developer. He Wants to Build the Next Berkshire Hathaway.
Las Vegas and Clark County Are Fighting Over Who Pays for Fire, Sewer and Parks in the County Islands
The city says its crews and sewer lines serve county land that the county, not the city, taxes. The county calls the city’s push to renegotiate a money grab. The agreement that decides who can annex what comes up for renewal in December. The City of Las Vegas and Clark County are in open conflict… Continue reading Las Vegas and Clark County Are Fighting Over Who Pays for Fire, Sewer and Parks in the County Islands
A 15-Year-Old Died at First Friday. The Teenager Charged With Killing Him Is 17, and Nevada Law Sends Him to Adult Court.
Metro police announced an arrest four days after a fight in an Arts District crowd ended in gunfire, and have not released the suspect’s name. Two other people were shot, and police have not said who they are or what started the fight. Gunfire broke out at South Main Street and West Charleston Boulevard shortly… Continue reading A 15-Year-Old Died at First Friday. The Teenager Charged With Killing Him Is 17, and Nevada Law Sends Him to Adult Court.
The 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley Promised the Western Shoshone Peace, Not a Land Cession. Nevada’s Nuclear Test Site Still Sits Inside That Treaty Territory Today.
The United States has never purchased the ground it has used for nuclear weapons testing and, for decades, has studied as a nuclear waste dump in the desert northwest of Las Vegas. It only promised the Western Shoshone peace. That unresolved treaty question is still being cited today in Nevada’s fight against burying nuclear waste… Continue reading The 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley Promised the Western Shoshone Peace, Not a Land Cession. Nevada’s Nuclear Test Site Still Sits Inside That Treaty Territory Today.
Culinary Workers Walked Out of the New Frontier Hotel on Sept. 21, 1991. The Strike Lasted Six Years, Four Months and 10 Days Before Phil Ruffin Bought the Property.
Six years, four months and 10 days is how long it took the Culinary Union to outlast a single Strip hotel owner’s refusal to bargain. Every Culinary contract signed on the Strip since has been negotiated in the shadow of that fact. On Sept. 21, 1991, hospitality workers walked off the job at the New… Continue reading Culinary Workers Walked Out of the New Frontier Hotel on Sept. 21, 1991. The Strike Lasted Six Years, Four Months and 10 Days Before Phil Ruffin Bought the Property.
Nevada Lawmakers Passed a Law in 2003 to Permanently Protect Land Next to Red Rock Canyon. The Nevada Supreme Court Struck It Down a Decade Later.
Whether land next to Red Rock Canyon can be developed has come down to one constitutional question for more than two decades: can Nevada’s Legislature single out one piece of Clark County and freeze its zoning by statute? The Nevada Supreme Court answered no in 2013, and that ruling — not any new law —… Continue reading Nevada Lawmakers Passed a Law in 2003 to Permanently Protect Land Next to Red Rock Canyon. The Nevada Supreme Court Struck It Down a Decade Later.
