📰 deputy editor @nevadacurrent 💡 [email protected] 🦋
Las Vegas, Nev.
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Mail ballots are on their way to Nevadans. Do you know who you're voting for? 🗳️👇
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Nevada lawmakers are pondering whether the state’s “maturing” marijuana industry needs to update its tax structure. nevadacurrent.com/2026/10/27…
Rising costs of healthcare, gas and groceries during President Donald Trump’s second term have put Republicans on defense, not only in Washington, but in statehouse and gubernatorial races across the country. nevadacurrent.com/2026/10/26…
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Still, neither Clark County’s average wage of $67,678 nor Washoe County’s average wage of $73,970, would support buying median-priced homes in Nevada’s respective population centers.
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Third data center gas plant seeks approval, as gas pipeline expansion advances 🔗 👇🏽 #nevada nevadacurrent.com/2026/10/26…
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Thank you to the @TheNVIndy and the @NevadaCurrent for the comprehensive voter guides, which were essential to helping me fill out my ballot! If you need an assist, check out their work here:
Indy: thenevadaindependent.com/ele…
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COMMENTARY. Nevada legislative and policy leaders need to expand and strengthen two underused and previously overlooked solutions: accredited freestanding birth centers and integrated access to licensed midwives.
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I think it’s pretty mean-spirited for a bunch of journalists to dunk on this kid, who just used his savings to keep his local paper open, for one comment. Sometimes the news is boring and that’s okay. It’s weird to say he’s not invested in local news, when he quite literally is.
“I was asked the other day if local journalism was boring, and I was like, ‘It may be boring, but it’s necessary.’”
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there are no words
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Just in case you didn't think Flippo would sink lower after exaggerating his medals, attacking his former commander for telling the truth and breaking financial disclosure laws, he's now blaming his grandkids for his hat having a valor pin he didn't earn.
His. Grandkids.
Flippo addressed recent hat controversy with NPR:
"You know if you've lived with grandkids, and you know, you kind of know, when you ask them to put those things on your hat ... It's just crazy what people are going to go after."
From @tamarakeithNPR:
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The @NevadaCurrent's 2026 general election voter guide is live! nevadacurrent.com/voter-guid…
Added today:
🗳️ Former Henderson police chief Hollie Chadwick challenges Hendo Mayor Michelle Romero
🗳️ Clark County District Court Judge Jacob Reynolds faces a challenge from prosecutor Alex Quagge
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The boss, @jhughjackson, with another great column. nevadacurrent.com/2026/10/02…
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“Child Protective Services will tell a relative ‘if you step in and take this child, then we don’t have to remove them and place them in foster care,’” says Caliendo, who adds there is sometimes a hint of coercion in the request. nevadacurrent.com/2026/10/01…
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26-count indictment returned against
@hope4prisoners1 founder @jondponder
includes sexual abuse allegations dating back to 2015 and 2017, before 2020 when HFP board members
@Sheriff_LVMPD and @TheDA_Wolfson ignored them.
@joelombardonv won't say if @LVMPD
investigated at the time