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Water is the other US-Mexico border crisis, and the supply crunch is getting worse • Nevada Current
Immigration and border security will be the likely focus of U.S.-Mexico relations under the new Trump administration. But there also is a growing water crisis along the U.S.–Mexico border that affects tens of millions of people on both sides, and it can only be managed if the two governments work together. Climate change is shrinking surface and groundwater supplies in…
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Nevada congressional Democrats should stop sanewashing Musk & Trump • Nevada Current
Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are shredding the U.S. Constitution, scrapping the rule of law, creating misery and chaos not just in the U.S. but worldwide, and transmogrifying a constitutional democratic republic into a punitive authoritarian kleptocracy. And Nevada Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford is sticking with the “DOGE caucus” anyway. The DOGE caucus was formed in…
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Joe Lombardo’s predicament • Nevada Current
Governor Joe Lombardo has a problem, one that runs deeper than just tussling with a Nevada Legislature controlled by Democrats. It’s that his political situation is all wrong for the current moment. In this Republican Party, Governor Lombardo’s political project is misshapen, incongruous, out of place. His is a square peg, in a round political epoch. These days, in this…
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Whether Lombardo and legislators like it or not, Trump’s malignancy looms over the session • Nevada Current
On Monday the Nevada Legislature will start its general session, which is a thing the Nevada Legislature does every other year for 120 days (+1 or more, on occasion). People often give scant attention to what state legislatures do, unless some hot-button outrageous proposal is championed by a governor or lawmakers. Judging from pronouncements so far from Nevada’s Republican governor…
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Former lawman calls defending rule of law mere ‘shameless political theater’ • Nevada Current
Early this week when the Trump administration inflicted chaos on Nevada and the nation by announcing a sweeping freeze on federal financial assistance that even the administration couldn’t explain, several Nevada Democratic elected officials condemned Trump’s action. Tuesday afternoon, by which time Nevada schools and universities, health care professionals, nonprofits, and even agencies in Gov. Joe Lombardo’s own state government…
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Trump wants to cut taxes on the rich. States can choose differently. • Nevada Current
Editor’s note: Like Washington state, Nevada has also long had one of the nation’s most regressive tax structures. As President Trump takes office, one of his first agenda items is to slash taxes on corporations and the rich. The results will be more inequality and less revenue for the programs Americans rely on. The good news? States can make their…
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We haven’t forgotten about Brandon Durham • Nevada Current
When LVMPD killed Brandon Durham in his Las Vegas home last November, our community erupted in grief and outrage. Collectively trying to reconcile the grim state of affairs when a Black person interacts with law enforcement. Community activists filled our streets. News cameras rolled. Investigations were started. But now, as winter settles over our city, that righteous anger has given…
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Let them eat memes • Nevada Current
What do Donald Trump and Joe Lombardo have in common? If you said they both gave speeches within one week of each other in which neither of them mentioned the price of eggs, you’re right. But while both men demonstrate they have higher priorities than your grocery bill, they’re not entirely two (overpriced) peas in a pod. “I was saved…
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The state of the state is static • Nevada Current
“In 2022,” Gov. Joe Lombardo observed during his state of the state speech Wednesday, “Nevada voters elected a sheriff to be their governor.” And then in 2024 Nevada voters elected as president someone found liable of sexual abuse by one jury and guilty of 34 felonies by another for covering up hush money payments to a porn star; a man…
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Elon Musk and the phony far-right narrative of ‘protecting’ women • Nevada Current
Across the 2000s, a series of child sex exploitation cases affected British towns, including Telford, Rochdale, Oxford and Rotherham, scarring the lives of hundreds of children. In 2011, Times journalist Andrew Norfolk reported that networks – so-called “grooming gangs” – of largely British Asian men of Pakistani heritage had trafficked and raped hundreds of mainly girls and young women. These…
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