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  • Lombardo declines sit-down over firearm safety

    A former member of the state board that regulates armed security guards and private investigators says he resigned from his position over what he calls a lack of regulatory oversight by the agency, the Private Investigators Licensing Board.  Rick Brown, a Northern Nevada polygrapher and former law enforcement official who was appointed to the board

  • Trump administration says developers, loggers can kill endangered species

    The Trump administration’s top wildlife official issued a directive last week that expands a recent rollback of endangered species protections much further than the feds had told the public. Individuals and industries may kill endangered animals in the course of logging projects, developments and other activities, it said — so long as the activity’s purpose

  • Don’t use schools to justify more data centers

    As a public school educator in the Clark County School District, I’m being told data centers are supposed to be good for my students because they might generate money for schools. I don’t buy it. I have a simple question: Why should funding for my classroom and students depend on Nevada building more data centers?

  • Trump likes data centers. Congress seems stuck. The midterms could deliver a verdict.

    WASHINGTON — The rare 2026 issue that draws huge support from Republicans and Democrats in Congress is the same one that’s mobilized many Americans: restrictions on giant data centers. The House has overwhelmingly passed legislation forcing state regulators to consider requirements that data centers absorb the cost of the electricity they use.  But there’s more

  • Lombardo doubles down on data centers, offers trimmed tax breaks, ‘commitments’ to wary public

    Gov. Joe Lombardo in a new executive order is making clear his eagerness to welcome more AI data centers into the state, calling them “the means by which Nevada will meet an unprecedented challenge and realize an unprecedented opportunity, one of the most significant for economic growth and fiscal diversification this State has seen in

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