Las Vegas bartenders started organizing in 1934, when the Strip barely existed. Their union didn’t receive its formal charter until two decades later, and nine decades after that first organizing effort, its members were still walking a picket line outside a Strip casino. Bartenders Union Local 165 traces its founding to 1934, according to the… Continue reading Las Vegas Bartenders Chartered Their Union on June 15, 1954. Seven Decades Later, They Walked a Picket Line at Virgin Las Vegas.
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Nevada Required Body Cameras on Every Officer by 2017. This Year, the ACLU Sued LVMPD Over What It Charges to See the Footage.
LVMPD started requiring new officers to wear body cameras in 2013, two years before Nevada’s Legislature gave agencies the authority to do it and four years before lawmakers made it mandatory statewide. Thirteen years later, the fight isn’t over whether officers wear the cameras. It’s over what the public has to pay to watch what… Continue reading Nevada Required Body Cameras on Every Officer by 2017. This Year, the ACLU Sued LVMPD Over What It Charges to See the Footage.
Congress Drew a Federal Land-Sale Boundary Around Las Vegas in 1998. Clark County Is Now Asking for a Second One.
Congress drew a line around Las Vegas in 1998 and let the federal government sell everything inside it. Twenty-eight years and $3.5 billion in land sales later, that same line is why Clark County is back in Washington asking for more room to grow. President Bill Clinton signed the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act,… Continue reading Congress Drew a Federal Land-Sale Boundary Around Las Vegas in 1998. Clark County Is Now Asking for a Second One.
An 1873 Executive Order Set Aside Moapa Land With Nothing but Rivers and Meridians. It Now Hosts Nevada’s Largest Cluster of Tribal Solar Power.
President Ulysses S. Grant fixed the Moapa Band of Paiutes’ reservation with nothing more than a river, a meridian and a straight line north. A century and a half later, that same ground carries the electrical output of three separate utility-scale solar plants, built after five decades of a coal plant that polluted it instead.… Continue reading An 1873 Executive Order Set Aside Moapa Land With Nothing but Rivers and Meridians. It Now Hosts Nevada’s Largest Cluster of Tribal Solar Power.
The Supreme Court Ruled in 1976 That Groundwater Pumping Couldn’t Drain Devils Hole. Earthquakes in 2024 and 2025 Nearly Undid What the Ruling Protected.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1976 that a shallow limestone shelf inside a Nevada cave deserved federal water protection because a fish found nowhere else on Earth needs it to spawn. Two earthquakes swept that same shelf clean in 2024 and 2025, and the population the court’s ruling was designed to protect crashed to… Continue reading The Supreme Court Ruled in 1976 That Groundwater Pumping Couldn’t Drain Devils Hole. Earthquakes in 2024 and 2025 Nearly Undid What the Ruling Protected.
Nevada Denied Frank Rosenthal a Gaming License in 1976. A Federal Case a Decade Later Proved the Casinos He Ran Were Mob-Owned All Along.
Nevada gaming regulators refused a casino manager a license in 1976, citing his criminal record and testimony about corruption. It took another decade of federal investigation to prove the company that employed him was a front for organized crime — and the licensing power regulators used against him in 1976 is still the tool the… Continue reading Nevada Denied Frank Rosenthal a Gaming License in 1976. A Federal Case a Decade Later Proved the Casinos He Ran Were Mob-Owned All Along.
The Moulin Rouge Agreement Desegregated the Strip on March 26, 1960. The Historic Westside Is Only Now Getting Investment to Match It.
Nevada’s governor helped broker an end to Strip segregation in a single meeting at a shuttered casino in 1960. Sixty-six years later, the neighborhood that hosted that meeting is only beginning to see public investment on a comparable scale. The Moulin Rouge Hotel opened May 24, 1955, at 900 West Bonanza Road in Las Vegas,… Continue reading The Moulin Rouge Agreement Desegregated the Strip on March 26, 1960. The Historic Westside Is Only Now Getting Investment to Match It.
The Federal Government Wants to Eliminate the Grant Program That Pays for School Music. Nevada Schools Would Feel It.
A federal budget proposal would fold 18 separate education grant programs into one and eliminate most of their funding in the process. One of the programs on the list exists specifically to pay for music, dance, theater and visual arts in public schools. President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2026 budget proposal would cut federal K-12… Continue reading The Federal Government Wants to Eliminate the Grant Program That Pays for School Music. Nevada Schools Would Feel It.
Nevada Issued More Water Rights on the Walker River Than It Could Sustain in the 1800s. The 1936 Walker River Decree Still Governs Who Gets What.
A federal decree written in 1936 to settle a fight between cattle ranchers and irrigators over the Walker River still controls who gets its water today, even as the tribe named in the original lawsuit presses an unresolved claim to a senior right and the lake the river once filled has lost more than 90… Continue reading Nevada Issued More Water Rights on the Walker River Than It Could Sustain in the 1800s. The 1936 Walker River Decree Still Governs Who Gets What.
Nevada Created the Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission in 1965 With Five Members. A 2023 Law Now Makes It Search the National Decertification Index Before Certifying Anyone.
Nevada built a five-member commission in 1965 to raise the training bar for local police. Six decades later, state law now hands that same commission a different job: checking whether an applicant already has a documented history of misconduct before it ever hands over a badge. Nevada’s 53rd Legislature passed Assembly Bill 390 in 1965,… Continue reading Nevada Created the Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission in 1965 With Five Members. A 2023 Law Now Makes It Search the National Decertification Index Before Certifying Anyone.
