Nevada News & Views Digest: May 15, 2026

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NEVADA NEWS & VIEWS

National

  • Cook County Can’t Find 244 Criminal Defendants on Ankle Monitors (Kelly Chapman)
  • Baltimore Increased School Funding by 50% and STILL Can’t Teach Math (Erica Neely)
  • Yale Accused of Giving Black Applicants 29x Better Odds Than Asians With Same Scores (Amy Groves)
  • Coalition Letter: Your 401(k) Could Get a Big Upgrade — If Washington Gets Out of the Way (Brittany Sheehan)
  • 9-0: Liberal and Conservative Justices Unanimously Agreed on This Trucking Case (Kristen Kniep)

State

  • In a Race Full of Noise, One CD3 Candidate Is Trying Substance (Chuck Muth)
  • Reno Just Slammed the Brakes on Data Centers (Brittany Sheehan)
  • Meet the challengers looking to oust Nancy Brune in Las Vegas' Ward 6 (Oona Milliken)
  • The RDA Proposes a Plan to Fix Virginia Street’s Empty Storefronts and it Might Work (Michael Leonard)

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X MARKS THE SPOT

  • 173 Democrats voted AGAINST a resolution to honor and support Law Enforcement Officers during National Police Week. | X
  • Mayor Johnson just said incarceration is not a solution to crime … El Salvador would like a word | X
  • Democrat Minnesota Rep. Aisha Gomez apparently told a Republican colleague to “go f*cking kill himself” | X
  • Kamala wants to brainstorm with Democrats to pack the supreme court, make DC and Puerto Rico a state, and abolish the Electoral College. | X
  • BLM leaders hold press conference on the crisis of Netflix allowing a joke about George Floyd | X
  • Footage shows a suspect's car go flying over another vehicle as they attempted to flee police in Wisconsin. | X
  • Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt trolls candidate Nithya Raman following a report that she proposed a backyard BBQ ban to stop wildfires. | X
  • LA Mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt released another AI banger! | X
  • 11 people pulled alive from the ocean after their plane crashed off the coast of Florida. | X

 

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

  • “We stopped handcuffing the police, and started handcuffing more violent criminals. We've restored a culture that supports—not second guesses—our officers when they go out and do their important work.” – Vice President JD Vance

 

LAUGHTER IS STILL THE BEST MEDICINE

  • Chinese Emperor Baby Trump | X

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