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Ford and Lombardo aren’t leading Nevada’s data center debate. They’re just trying to navigate it.
Both Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo and the Democrat hoping to unseat him, Attorney General Aaron Ford, have been playing catch-up on data centers. Their positions have been reactive and unimaginative. It’s as if their hearts aren’t in it. Most of the Nevada press, and some national outlets as well, generously gave Lombardo ad-ready headlines last […]
Nevada got a mining tax revenue windfall in 2025, but 2026 isn’t looking as shiny
In 2025, the price of gold skyrocketed. Accordingly, a record-smashing $12.2 billion worth of gold mined in Nevada — the nation’s largest gold producer — was 26% higher than the $9.7 billion mined in 2024. One by-product of those higher gold prices: As a percentage of the much larger gross revenue, the industry’s expenses were […]
NV senators voted against it, but Trump’s flagrant self-enrichment is what killed the crypto bill
Nevada Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen joined the rest of their Democratic Senate colleagues Tuesday, along with a handful of Republicans, in killing a cryptocurrency bill the industry really, really wanted. The industry believed that if the Clarity Act, which the House passed last year, was enacted into law, the legislation would bestow […]
Joe Lombardo and the largest tax increase in Nevada history
A Joe Lombardo campaign ad that says Aaron Ford is horrible because Ford has supported tax breaks for data centers (a policy Lombardo continues to support) also flashes on your screen the words “FORD VOTED FOR THE LARGEST TAX INCREASE IN NEVADA HISTORY.” The largest tax increase in Nevada history was enacted in 2015. Valued […]
Stadium’s blingy entrance will be new, but making the public pay for it is the same old
The movers and shakers and elbow-rubbers on the Las Vegas Stadium Authority this week perfunctorily rubber-stamped another $75 million of public funding to build a new entrance to the Las Vegas NFL stadium that will include, among other things, a station for Elon Musk’s preposterous tunnels (though perhaps surprisingly, not a ballroom). Discussion from authority […]
Lombardo’s big sloppy crush on data centers finally attracts Ford’s attention
After the Current published the story by Jeniffer Solis Friday on the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada hoping to bury its collective head in the sand on data centers, Aaron Ford issued a statement reacting to the story and using the phrase “Lombardo’s taxpayer-funded data centers.” Uttered by any number of other Democrats — Rep. […]
NV going 2nd. Or 22nd. Does it matter?
Nevada will go second on the 2028 Democratic presidential primary calendar, following South Carolina, a group of national party mandarins announced Friday. Apparently there’s still another step in the process, but all the kids who are following this seem to think that’s a mere formality and that the calendar is set. Nevada Democratic Party leaders […]
Trump sics his wretched Department of Homeland Security on Nevada’s free and fair election
“We refute these claims,” Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar said Friday in response to the latest baseless allegations and crude extortion threats hurled at Nevada and its elections from Trump and his lap dogs. Aguilar found himself issuing more than one statement about Trump’s attacks on Nevada elections as the past week came to […]
He’s Joe Lombardo
After the police bodycam video of Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo’s traffic stop in May was made public by The Associated Press Tuesday, Nevada Democrats issued a statement raising some questions about the incident. “Why does Lombardo think he can name drop his way out of a ticket?” for instance, and “Does he think his role […]
Minimum wage adjusts for inflation in many states and localities July 1, but not in Nevada
The minimum wage is going up in 17 states and localities July 1, but Nevada isn’t one of them. With one or two exceptions, this summer’s minimum wage increases across the country are the result of statutes or ordinances by which the wage is adjusted each year for inflation, according to tracking by the Economic […]
Pro-AI PAC sinks a New York City congressional candidate — from a Nevada mailbox
The artificial intelligence industry claimed one of its first high-profile scalps of the 2026 campaign cycle in a New York congressional primary Tuesday, putting politicians on notice nationwide that if they want to advocate regulation of AI, a segment of the industry will be coming after them. And Nevada helped. A little. Federal political action […]
Maybe NV’s presidential primary should be first — but not for reasons NV Democratic leaders cite
Nevada is in the running to hold the first Democratic presidential primary in the nation in 2028. The idea, according to the state’s Democratic professional political leadership, is that Nevada Democratic voters are uniquely constituted to give unto a grateful nation a safe and not at all scary Democratic presidential nominee. “The early calendar is […]
