Pity the poor sage grouse. The ground-dwelling bird doesn’t like to fly, so the creature’s nests amount to fast food for predators such as ravens and coyotes. The more the sage grouse population declines across Nevada (the government’s contributions to those declines notwithstanding), the greater the chance it will be listed as a threatened or endangered species.
Dan Reynolds, the frontman for Las Vegas’ own Imagine Dragons, had this to say during the rapidly rising rock band’s rousing headlining act on the first day of the Life Is Beautiful festival downtown: “I can’t tell you how much this means to us.”
Downtown Las Vegas has been revitalized by urbanism. But in a case of “What happens in downtown Las Vegas stays in downtown Las Vegas,” the City Council last month effectively scrapped an urban vision for a part of the northwest valley.
When power bills go up, it’s a tax on everyone. For hard-hit Nevadans with no financial wiggle room, power bill increases are especially brutal.
Washington’s war on the press took another unsettling turn this summer. It took a couple of months for the story to crack the news, but we now have an even clearer picture of how easy it is for authorities to trample the constitutional protections provided to journalists, to say nothing of the Fourth Amendment rights enjoyed by all Americans.
The Clark County Commission is prepared to cross a constitutional line as part of its campaign to clear the Strip of clutter.
The precedent has been set. In the state’s already-skewed binding arbitration process, in which a lone outsider with no stake in the outcome settles contract disputes between local governments and their unions, compliance with the law is optional.
