The pandemic showed us the danger of relying on a single industry. The images of an empty Strip in 2020 still linger. We said we'd learn from that experience. The creation of Summerlin Studios is one way to prove we mean it.

What Democratic insiders and partisan loyalists saw as leverage, the rest of us saw as delayed or canceled flights, unpaid bills, missed paychecks, empty grocery carts and hungry children. 

Trump’s alarmist rhetoric is nothing new. He is, after all, the king of chaos. But this hits particularly close to home in Nevada, which has played an integral role in nuclear weapons testing.

For those of us living next to the most-nuked patch of ground on Earth, that should raise a few red flags — especially because such testing doesn’t seem even remotely required to ensure nuclear capability today.

I’ve had a couple of vaccine-deniers with professional programming experience tell me they could evaluate double-blind study data better than the “corrupt lying” scientists who work for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Voters shouldn’t be expected to know what a television or swimming pool district is, much less pay five people between $9,000 and $14,000 per year to run one, nor should they require each district to create its own websites at additional expense.

Progressive candidates spend a lot of time talking about wealth taxes and health care reform without realizing that legislating on behalf of regular people is impossible in a system as heavily skewed as ours.

Most suppression motions don’t go far, but it begs an interesting question: Nearly 30 years after the murder, was there really a need to search the house just before 10 p.m.? What was the rush?

With mere days remaining, there was only one piece of technology that might still provide a breath of hope for those who saw Nevada as a path to ensure a Republican victory over the issue of slavery: the telegraph. 

Georgia has become utterly fixated on one way to boost its economy: The film tax credit is now our largest corporate tax incentive, expanding over time to compete with 38 other states that have enacted their own credits.

One veteran of the legal side of the sports betting industry puts it bluntly: If the bookies used were legal, they were dangerously unsophisticated. If they were illegal, they were asking for trouble — or were in on the conspiracy and getting a piece of the action.

For Trump, soliciting outrage is the entire point. Sure, that might be attention-grabbing, but it’s also a pretty unhealthy way for the leader of 350 million Americans to communicate in our modern era of discontent and partisan divide. 

Reno’s No Kings rally was just one of thousands held across the country as an exercise of the right to peaceably assemble that’s guaranteed under the First Amendment of our Constitution. What’s more American than that?

Tonopah was squired and hyped throughout the 20th century. It played its part in Nevada mining lore and the nation’s war effort. Locals take pardonable pride in the town being too tough to fail.

These attacks aren’t just political — they strike a personal chord. Trump’s siege on higher education damages foundational initiatives I proudly led, which resulted in a more equal and inclusive environment in Nevada’s colleges and universities.

Even a 1 percent increase in medical debt is associated with poorer health, higher mortality and lower life expectancy. Taking out a car loan is unlikely to hurt your health, but falling behind on hospital bills might.

Skeptics and others likely to be told to silence their cell phones (and their criticism) might remind fans and paparazzi that there’s an array of other unfinished business in Nevada.

It used to be said that politics is “the art of the possible.” Nowadays it feels more as if it’s merely an opportunity for ambitious politicians to hold the American public hostage for the sake of cheap political wins.

It seems unlikely that the Founding Fathers would write a constitution that would grant anyone the very same absolute power they fought against.

Tract has argued in court filings that Switch has a history of harassing business competitors. The company has denied those allegations.

Even before the pandemic, Trump's first term dramatically increased the nation’s debt, and there’s no indication that his second term will be much better for our fiscal future.

To lump Nevada’s regulated brothel system into the same category doesn’t just stretch the truth; it undermines the fight against actual sex trafficking.

Rocha hated when mistakes became embedded as fact in media coverage or history books; he strived to correct them, to chasten reporters who repeated them.

The commission’s ruling paints Ballou as more advocate than unbiased weigher of fact, but it also noted that the judge testified that “she was not biased but rather showed compassion in her rulings."

The daily demand charge was justified as a way to even out the electricity demand throughout the day. Ironically, it may do the opposite.

Our political era is so bereft of intelligent discourse, the inclusion of any sort of intelligence — even the artificial variety — is a welcome development.

Family separation has been a tactic used against nearly every marginalized group in U.S. history to enforce white dominance, from the separation of enslaved Black families to the kidnapping of Native American children.

International travel continues to falter so much it’s roused the hard-to-rattle marketers at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Bureau to craft a charm offensive in an effort to win back customers.

The award for General Online Excellence — which “recognizes overall excellence of a news organization’s online presence” — was one of 16 awards won by The Indy this year, including eight first-place awards.

Nevada's experience reflects a broader cultural problem in how we discuss commercial sexual exploitation. We are drawn to the salacious details and the powerful names, but we shy away from harder conversations about the systems that make trafficking possible.

In another time, Kirk’s shooter might have just as easily been radicalized by violent revolutionary leftists bombing police stations or cross-burning white nationalists wearing pointy hoods and flowing robes.

Whether it's access to fewer resources or simply the distance required to travel to cast a ballot, clerks and voters in rural and tribal counties face unique challenges.

Former DEA agent Mike Vigil suspects those on board were migrants, not gang members. Thanks to the shoot-first-collect-evidence-later strategy, there was no one to interrogate.

Cash bail is unfair and imprecise in selecting who sits in jail waiting for their case to be resolved. It leads to low-income people being held pretrial while wealthier people pay for their liberty.

What’s alarming about these proposed changes is how they mirror the public higher ed playbooks of Florida, Texas and Ohio — states that have seen an exodus of talented educators.

The "negative side" was not that the spiraling arrangement could send him to prison far from his wife and children. No. He was worried about exposing his operation.

The lack of transparency isn’t merely some unintended consequence of a broken system. It seems to be a deliberate strategy by those involved.