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Metro effort to depoliticize towing contract enables conflicts, say critics
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s effort to stay out of the auto towing business is exposing the department to possible legal scrutiny and potentially endangering the public, say critics who contend Metro’s towing management vendor is engaged in self-dealing. Since…
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Medicare drug plans are hiking premiums while Trump claims victory on medicine prices
Millions of Medicare enrollees who buy stand-alone prescription drug plans will see their average monthly premiums rise by 50% in 2027, a new analysis finds. But enrollees can avoid the average increase — from $34 a month to $51 — by switching to lower-cost plans during the…
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Explosive spending, ugly ads and courtroom battles set stage for tense midterm elections
WASHINGTON — When the polls close Tuesday night, the 2026 U.S. election will go down as one of history’s most expensive and extraordinarily ugly midterms — galvanizing record-breaking early voter turnout among a deeply divided electorate. Voters on Saturday crossed the…
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Commentary: How Question 6 gives patients stronger protections
When a patient sits across from me in my Las Vegas practice, my job begins with listening. What symptoms are they experiencing? What medications are they taking? What worries them? What stands between them and the care they need? Sometimes, it’s a co-pay they cannot afford.…
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Microplastics found in freshly fallen snow in Sierra Nevada
Microplastics are everywhere — including in Nevada’s snowpack. After years of skiing on freshly fallen snow in remote locations across the Sierra Nevada, Aleksandra Karapetrova — an environmental toxicologist at the University of California, Riverside — wondered how pristine the…
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‘Medically frail’ Medicaid enrollees won’t have to prove their inability to work to keep coverage
Medicaid recipients who are disabled or have a chronic illness will not have to prove they are unable to work to be exempted from new work requirements that take effect next year, a federal judge ruled Thursday. The decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston…
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Trump administration has slow-walked 380K potential immigrant voters
The Trump administration cut naturalization sharply over the past year, leading to accusations it’s holding back hundreds of thousands of people who might have voted in the midterms. It’s hard to say how those people might have voted had they become U.S. citizens. Naturalized…
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Commentary: Editor’s note: I’m retiring. April’s going to take over
Early in October I informed the Nevada Current staff and States Newsroom, our parent nonprofit, that I’m retiring, and Friday, Nov. 20, will be my last day with the Current. States Newsroom sensibly did the obvious thing and quickly asked April Corbin Girnus, the Current’s…
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DHS targeting naturalized Americans in voter investigations, civil rights groups say
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is unlawfully scrutinizing naturalized U.S. citizens and placing them at risk of disenfranchisement, civil rights groups alleged in a lawsuit Wednesday, less than a week before Election Day. The lawsuit, filed in California, came as…
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Caring for aging parents is getting more expensive
Costs are soaring for people who care for their older parents and other family members, according to a new study. Out-of-pocket expenses are nearly 60% higher than they were just five years ago for family caregivers, who now spend an average of $11,508 a year on caregiving,…
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Ponder ‘a prolific sexual predator’ says prosecutor as judge lowers bail
Jon Ponder, the felon embraced by President Donald Trump, Gov. Joe Lombardo, and most of Southern Nevada’s elected officials, used his powerful connections to prey on female inmates, Clark County Deputy District Attorney Michelle Fleck alleged Wednesday during a hearing to lower…
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Nevadans pay tribute to civil rights and labor trailblazer Dolores Huerta
In an outpouring of messages expressing condolences, Nevada lawmakers and organizers praised civil rights and labor activist Dolores Huerta, who died Wednesday, as an inspirational trailblazer. “She was a voice for the voiceless, a fighter for working families, and a powerful…
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Voters urged to use drop boxes as recommended mail-in deadline passes
The U.S. Postal Service’s recommended deadline for mailing in ballots passed Tuesday, prompting voting advocates to urge Nevadans who missed the window to return their ballot to a drop box or vote in person. USPS officials say they are ready to deliver election ballots securely…
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Democrats, Culinary call on Station Casinos to heed Supreme Court ruling, negotiate a contract
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in September denied an emergency petition filed by Red Rock Casino to stay a lower court’s decision that affirmed the company must bargain with the Culinary Union. Nearly two months later, Culinary workers, flanked by Democratic…
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2026 ballot measures are written at a graduate-school reading level, report finds
This year’s statewide ballot measures are written, on average, at a graduate-school reading level, according to a new report. The readability of 2026’s ballot questions — which ask voters to weigh in on issues as varied as abortion, property taxes, voter ID and firearms — varies…
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Conservation group sues feds for failing to protect rare Nevada toad and fish
A conservation group sued the federal government Tuesday for failing to make a timely decision on whether to list a rare Nevada toad and fish as endangered or threatened species. The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Tuesday for allegedly…
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Lawmakers mulling cannabis tax revisions
Nevada lawmakers are pondering whether the state’s “maturing” marijuana industry needs to update its tax structure. Revenue from the state’s cannabis excise tax, which flows into the State Education Fund, peaked in 2021 and declined 40% by 2025. The decline is “in part due to…
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Commentary: So how malevolent will Trump get in Nevada this time?
“Does Trump even care about the midterms?” I rhetorically asked that question in the Daily Current newsletter nearly eleven months ago, ten days into the new year. A couple days earlier the New York Times had published a piece in which Trump had been asked if there were any…
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900+ women criminally charged for their conduct during pregnancies
In the first three years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to an abortion in June 2022, more than 900 women faced criminal charges for conduct related to their pregnancies, according to a new report. Most state laws that prohibit or regulate…
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Commentary: A New Approach to Closing the Disability Wealth Gap
It was another financial institution’s commercial that motivated me to create something different. Two busy white, apparently nondisabled, suburban parents were standing on their carefully manicured lawn talking about how they needed to go to the bank to plan for the future of…