Today, I am thrilled to report that thanks to the generosity of donors, large and small, and the relentless efforts of a team led by Chief Revenue Officer Brett Burke, we are not just back on our feet but we are standing tall.

But in the age of AI, there is a question whether even the most generous renewable energy strategy will be able to generate enough affordable electricity to power data centers that already use as much electricity as some cities.

Focusing solely on Reno’s self-inflicted labor costs, however, misses the forest for the trees. Even if the City of Reno’s labor costs came in where they were originally budgeted to, the city’s budget would still be straining.

As likely as it is that national Republicans will overestimate their electoral mandate, it seems just as likely that Nevada Democrats in Carson City will do the same. While Democrats failed to achieve a supermajority they still hold a sizable majority in both the Assembly and Senate. 

Approving polluting and water-intensive projects on our most vulnerable, natural and arid lands, often at the expense of communities and the environment, is not sustainable. Desert landscapes, once disturbed, take hundreds of years to recover.

Policymakers looking for a silver bullet often look to rent control as a means to bridge the racial divide, yet nothing requires rent-stabilized unit owners to rent to low-income or to minority tenants.

The current immigration system is badly broken, creating needless human suffering while failing to serve our national interests. We need reform that balances rule of law with our highest values of human dignity, family unity and economic opportunity.

Although Greenlink West is important to Nevada, it’s a small step toward doubling the country’s grid capacity. About 550 Greenlink West-sized transmission projects are needed to double the nation’s grid.

Perhaps, as some suggest, Trump was just playing the bluffing bully — one of his favorite professional wrestling poses. If he’s serious about imposing tariffs on America’s biggest trading partners, we’ll end up paying for them in the form of higher prices.

To be sure, keeping kids safe online is a pretty admirable goal ... . However, attempting to legislate that goal into existence with age controls and mandatory content moderation will create a plethora of unintended consequences. 

The Alzheimer’s medications in question have already gone through years-long research to establish their safety and efficacy in treating Alzheimer’s disease. Making patients participate in additional clinical trials as a condition of Medicare coverage is unnecessary.

Further, Nevada’s minimal “good cause” protection falls far short of the standards prescribed by the American Bar Association, which call for indigent defense providers to be “independent of political influence.”

An intrepid columnist shares a satirical imagining of Michele Fiore’s inauguration as Nevada’s 32nd governor.

If he becomes secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be in a position to alter the generally prohibitionist attitudes within such agencies and clear the way for reformists to start making serious progress on psychedelics. 

Fortunately for us, some very good writers continue to tell the Las Vegas story as they perceive it. But please don’t take my word for it. Check out some of the books I’ve been reading, and see for yourself.

Recently, a Republican candidate winning statewide in Nevada was tough, and winning as a presidential candidate was almost impossible. The difference in 2024 is that President-elect Donald Trump built a coalition that had been as elusive as a hole in one.

While I trust that our fairly elected officials will continue to appropriately fund our libraries, I fear the motives of future politicians who don’t comprehend the value of libraries. Because as we as a country know all too well, if the law does not guarantee something, it will be gone.

Let’s not forget that nonprofits have been crucial in addressing our community's most urgent needs for a long time, even before the pandemic and continue to be in the post-pandemic world. 

While it’s hardly shocking when battling businesses stiff-arm each other in the name of competition, the filing cites unsealed discovery from previous litigation involving Switch. It alleges Roy and the company have attempted to “harass and smother other companies that they perceive to be a threat.”

We may have to confront the possibility that our two-party system is doing an abhorrent job of representing most people’s political views with a binary “us or them” approach to today’s complex amalgamation of social and economic challenges.