It's A Pattern: BOCC Voting Against The Town.
The Nye County Board of County Commissioners is supposed to work for the people who live here. That is the job. The law even says so.
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The sheriff says the county jail is $7 million short. He asked the state to come look.
Sheriff Joe McGill told the commission the Nye County Detention Center is short roughly $7 million, and the county about $13 million. He asked for a forensic audit by the state.
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HOA and Flock: Profiting From Your Data.
Your neighborhood may be keeping a record of every car that comes and goes. In most states, no law says who gets to access.
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Pahrump's Private Prison. Here's Who Runs It And What The Contract Says.
The building on East Mesquite Avenue is not a county jail. It is a private prison run by CoreCivic for the federal government, and the contract lets Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold people there. The public can see the total, $122,250,660. The public cannot see the daily rate.
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Data Center Gold Rush: Who Are We Building It For?
Pahrump was asked to host an $18.4 billion technology campus. Before the rest of Nye County decides whether data centers belong here, residents should understand who uses them, who owns them and who they benefit.
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How Nye County Facilitated Mediwaste To An Easy Approval
The county didn’t get fooled. It held the door open. It ran a hospital-waste burner through the easy permit, ignored the state’s own fire warning, buried an opposition letter and went quiet. Now the county still has to vote, and that is where Pahrump can still stop it.
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The people of Pahrump said no. Nevada signed the medical waste incinerator permit anyway.
The state issued MediWaste its permit on August 31. It can burn 41.4 tons of medical waste a day, the next block from the county courthouse. The permit calls it pyrolysis. The EPA has already ruled on that word. If you want to appeal, the clock runs out September 5.
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They Arrested Him For Playing Cop. Then They Let Him Judge Cops
"I Imagine This Charge Will Never See The Light Of Day" Carns said that about his 2015 arrest. He was right. Nye County spent the next seven years handing him things.
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Nye County Sheriff Chased A Motorcycle Into Las Vegas. Here Is What The Law Allows.
A Nye County deputy knocked a rider off a motorcycle inside Las Vegas on Saturday. Nevada law, Metro's rulebook and the deputies' union contract all have something to say about that.
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