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6 days ago | 
thenevadaindependent.com | John L. Smith |JOhn Smith
Las Vegas is ballyhooed as America’s new big league sports mecca these days, but it’s good to see it hasn’t lost its trashy side. In addition to the NHL’s Golden Knights, NFL’s Raiders, and eventually even the American League’s A’s, Resorts World Las Vegas is scheduled to provide the glitzy backdrop for the inaugural Enhanced Games, a chemistry-fueled athletic competition planned for Memorial Day weekend in 2026.
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1 week ago | 
thenevadaindependent.com | John L. Smith |JOhn Smith
Facts are in dispute, but one look inside Judge Jason Woodbury’s courtroom gave a clear picture of the rising stakes in the battle of rivals in Nevada’s lucrative and competitive data center service industry. Assembled for a scheduled two-day preliminary injunction hearing at the Carson City courthouse, attorneys and their assistants for Switch Ltd. and Tract Management Company and other parties filled nearly every seat in Department 1.
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2 weeks ago | 
thenevadaindependent.com | John L. Smith |JOhn Smith
I have no proof the Nevada Gaming Commission acted intentionally when it disclosed confidential information during its May 23 meeting by naming the Fontainebleau Las Vegas in an ongoing Gaming Control Board money laundering investigation. I can only hope it did.
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3 weeks ago | 
thenevadaindependent.com | John L. Smith |JOhn Smith
To hear Michele Fiore tell it, the good Lord and President Donald Trump are in her corner. The Almighty answered her prayers after she bilked a fallen police officer’s memorial fund, and Trump handled the paperwork. He pardoned her in April following her 2024 conviction on six counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy. Since then, Fiore has appeared on a radio talk show, but the self-styled “Lady Trump” has otherwise kept a relatively low profile.
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1 month ago | 
archyde.com | John Smith |JOhn Smith
The political landscape is a shifting canvas, and sometimes, the most unexpected brushstrokes create the biggest headlines. Imagine, for a moment, a scenario where the former president, donald Trump, a figure often associated with a perceived affinity for Vladimir Putin, publicly criticizes the Russian leader’s actions. This divergence in rhetoric sparks immediate questions: is this a calculated strategy? A genuine change of heart?
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1 month ago | 
thenevadaindependent.com | John L. Smith |JOhn Smith
The fight to fund medically needy communities never ends in America. The battle has been going on long before the existence of the chaos-makers at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). It plays out in every county in Nevada, in urban and rural communities alike, and every dollar counts. For proof, look no further than the FBI’s yearslong investigation of Silver State Health Services.
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1 month ago | 
thenevadaindependent.com | John L. Smith |JOhn Smith
Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) lost some sleep Tuesday night. In a marathon meeting of the House Natural Resources Committee that ended just before midnight, Nevada’s lone Republican in Congress pushed through an amendment into his party’s budget legislation that calls for selling off hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in this state and Utah. Not a nickel of the sales proceeds is earmarked to remain in Nevada. Nothing for parks, infrastructure, conservation, wildland firefighting.
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1 month ago | 
thenevadaindependent.com | John L. Smith |JOhn Smith
Nevada data center giant Switch once again has failed to douse a brushfire litigation with potential rival Tract Capital Management in Storey County’s booming Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center. Storey County District Judge Jason Woodbury on May 2 denied Switch’s motion to dismiss Tract’s counterclaims in a lawsuit over its attempt to develop land for future use as a colocation data center. If Tract prevails, it could substantially increase competition for data center clients at the industrial park.
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1 month ago | 
thenevadaindependent.com | John L. Smith |JOhn Smith
The charm offensive continues apace on the Las Vegas Strip as some of its biggest players attempt to put an embarrassing and costly illegal bookmaking and money laundering scandal behind them. Fresh and familiar faces are in abundance these days along with stories about the concerted efforts being made to follow federal anti-money laundering regulations and the rules that apply in the state with the longest history of legal gambling.
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1 month ago | 
thenevadaindependent.com | John L. Smith |JOhn Smith
Trump bankrupted his casinos, and now it looks like he’s trying to bankrupt ours. Nevada legislators for weeks have waited like root-canal patients for the projections that were delivered at Thursday’s Economic Forum. The lawmakers anticipated pain, but no one knew just how much to expect. What they heard through their groans and grimaces this week was what can playfully be described as good news and bad news. The good news? At this moment, things aren’t so bad.
