Nevada’s Political Paper Trail: 87 Vetoes, One Special Session, and What the Public Can Dig Up
Every bill, veto, special session, and candidate filing in Nevada is a matter of public record. Here is what turns up when you actually go looking.
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Every bill, veto, special session, and candidate filing in Nevada is a matter of public record. Here is what turns up when you actually go looking.
Colovore Reno 1’s abatement works out to $407,697 per job, 65 times the rate calculated for this article on the eight other companies approved the same day, and Nevada’s attorney general has now opened a formal ratepayer survey on data centers’ power costs, as he and Gov. Joe Lombardo clash over the incentives in this year’s race for governor.
A Ninth Circuit ruling last week affirmed Nevada’s exclusive right to police that business against Kalshi’s prediction markets, even as the state’s top gaming regulator and the company’s own data cannot agree on how many billions of dollars in trades young adults already control.
Nevada broke its Labor Day gas price record this week, but the state’s two largest cities did not break it by the same amount, a gap that traces back to which pipeline fills each city’s pumps.
Three government reports on the exact same month of Nevada jobs data reached three different unemployment figures, a gap that has more to do with which of two standard adjustment methods each report used than with any real change in the job market.
Homicides in Las Vegas are up 17 percent this year, ending three straight years of decline. The 89 percent clearance rate behind that number stands in sharp contrast to Nevada’s other violent crime data.
Read together, a federal wage report released this week and a housing affordability report from this summer show why Las Vegas Valley’s job growth hasn’t made the area more affordable: at the county’s current pace of wage growth, closing the gap to what it costs to buy a home here would take a typical household nearly three decades.
The NIAA has grown to its largest membership in years. Over the same stretch, the number of state championship tournaments it runs has fallen from 71 to 60.
Containment held at 98 percent and command passed to a local incident commander on Tuesday, closing out a fire whose own price tag dwarfs the state’s base firefighting budget, with only part of the bill covered by federal aid.
