One state. Every Nevada.
A record $9.8 billion August in airline ticket sales was driven mostly by higher prices, not more travelers, but Las Vegas hotel rates grew slower than the city’s own visitor count in July, a reversal of the pattern playing out in the skies above it.
Barry Diller’s People Inc walked away from its $18 billion offer for MGM Resorts this week, and within a day reports had MGM chasing Diller’s company instead, a reversal that has left Nevada’s Gaming Commission and the state’s largest Culinary Union employer with an ownership question nobody can currently answer.
Nevada diesel has jumped 73% in a year to $6.84 a gallon, and the district says it is absorbing the extra cost from the same central office funds already stretched by $51.6 million in fall cuts that had parents and teachers furious at Thursday’s school board meeting.
The increase regents approved in January was always going to land on top of a separate, already scheduled inflation adjustment, and UNLV’s own published fee schedule confirms the combined three year increase is more than double the number that made headlines, a gap now shaping a contested regent election.
Shareholders approved the Fertitta buyout 65.4% to 2.1% at a Tuesday meeting in Reno, and the deal’s casino math in Stateline now looks like the exact ownership level regulators forced Caesars’ last owner to break up six years ago.
The Federal Reserve’s first rate hike since 2023 pushed the 30-year mortgage to 6.95% on Sept. 17, the highest reading since January 2025, landing on a state where Reno’s inventory is shrinking toward a seller’s market and Las Vegas’s is growing toward a buyer’s one, a gap this publication measured by lining up three separate housing reports that have not been read together before now.
The self-generating power plants face no renewable energy mandate at all, and fall outside Gov. Joe Lombardo’s new tax and cost-shifting rules for data centers, which apply only to companies seeking state abatements.
The state that held the nation’s highest unemployment rate every month from January 2022 through at least mid-2025 just posted its best jobless rate in six years, but Nevada’s labor force has contracted for three consecutive months even as employers kept adding jobs.
The panel that sets the revenue figures Nevada’s budget runs on left its gambling tax forecast untouched for 18 months while actual collections ran far ahead of it, a track record now facing its next test as the state’s tourism chief warns the same panel of a slowdown.
A November question would let Boulder City open 14,000 acres to data centers at rents the campaign says will run 10 times higher than solar’s. Divide the city’s own $1.336 billion, 70-year revenue estimate by the years in it, and the answer comes in under what solar leases are already generating this year.
