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Sisolak to Laxalt: Tell Trump to stop it
Several Republicans on the Nevada ballot this fall began to break their silence Monday about the prison-like camps holding immigrant children separated from their parents at the southern border. However, they did not call for the Trump administration to immediately end its family separation policy. Instead, echoing the president, Nevada Republican candidates suggested that the […]
Bubble? What bubble? Fitch, Forbes wrong, LV experts say
A Fitch Ratings report published by Forbes designating Las Vegas as the most overvalued real estate market in the nation has homeowners who survived the foreclosure crisis jittery and real estate agents angry. But experts say contrary to increasingly frequent warnings from Fitch and others, Las Vegas is not in danger of suffering another housing […]
Bank fears guilt by association with bump stocks
Companies wary of liability may be the next weapon in the effort to regulate guns. A story in The Trace says Utah’s Merrick Bank withheld $1.6 million from bump stock inventor and manufacturer Slide Fire after the shooting massacre on the Las Vegas Strip last year in which 58 people were killed and upwards of 800 were […]
The best evidence money can buy…
This week I reported that American Addiction Centers, one of the largest drug and alcohol rehabilitation companies in America, which owns facilities in Las Vegas, boasts that more than 60 percent of its clients remain substance free 12 months after treatment. An observant tipster let me know the study of 4,000 patients was not exactly independent. In fact, it […]
Laxalt ‘looking into’ revisiting settled Nevada abortion law
In 2014, when Governor Brian Sandoval and then-Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto declared the state’s ban on gay marriage indefensible and declined to pursue the effort in a federal lawsuit, then-candidate for attorney general Adam Laxalt pledged to put politics aside and uphold the state ban, passed by voters and codified into the Constitution. “As […]
Addiction treatment and the circuitous road to recovery
The Centers for Disease Control reports 116 people are dying every day in America as a result of opiate addiction. Addicts say kicking the habit can be physically and psychologically draining. Some attempt to do it on their own. Others join traditional, free 12-step programs, and still others check into $1,500- to $2,000-a-day rehabs, […]
Despite defeat, Langford and supporters hopeful for reform
Robert Langford entered the race for District Attorney at the last minute, when the “progressive” candidate suddenly backed out of challenging incumbent Steve Wolfson. The uphill battle proved insurmountable. Wolfson defeated Langford handily. But Langford’s supporters said the cause isn’t lost. “Sometimes a candidate doesn’t have to win the race to make a difference,” says […]
Rehab Rat Race: Putting profits over patients?
Cody Arbuckle was 23 years-old when he left Indianapolis and headed for Las Vegas and a future free from addiction. Like countless others tethered to alcohol or drugs, Arbuckle chose to kick his opiate addiction in Southern Nevada, known for its many temptations but also a plethora of rehabilitation options. Arbuckle spent 19 days at Solutions Recovery, […]
D.A. Wolfson embraces wrongfully convicted. Just not all of them.
A television campaign ad for District Attorney Steve Wolfson asserts that Wolfson’s “conviction integrity unit freed” a wrongfully convicted man. DeMarlo Berry, who served 22 years for a murder he did not commit, is the first and only person to be exonerated via Wolfson’s Conviction Integrity Unit, created in 2016. “My goal in creating the […]
Plea deal raises questions about ties between cops and pimps
Note: The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is under investigation by the FBI for allegedly protecting certain pimps at the expense of their competitors. Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Melanie Tobiasson says Metro’s failure to investigate one suspected pimp believed to be targeting the children of law enforcement forced her to turn to the […]
Information is currency. Lots of currency.
Like many of you, the Nevada Current was curious about what caused former UNLV President Len Jessup to up and leave. Since we couldn’t get any satisfactory answers, we filed an information request for emails and other correspondence among Nevada Chancellor Thom Reilly and state regents. The estimated price tag for the information we sought: […]
Daughters of police, judges lured into prostitution
Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Melanie Tobiasson says she gave Metro Police detectives a road map that may have prevented three murders involving the sex trade, but vice detectives, under investigation by the FBI for allegedly protecting pimps, failed to act. Tobiasson drew criticism from friends and foes alike when she alleged on KLAS-TV […]