TAX TRAIL: Benitez-Thompson’s Rural Nevada Bid Revives Votes for Payroll, Business and Mining Taxes

RENO, Nev. — Democrat congressional candidate Teresa Benitez-Thompson is asking voters across Northern and rural Nevada to send her to Washington, but her decade in Carson City left behind an extensive tax record that is receiving renewed scrutiny in communities where mining and other employers remain economic lifelines. The pattern...

AWKWARD ODDS: Ford Campaign Cites Prediction Markets While His AG’s Office Fights Them in Court

LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford’s campaign for governor is facing an awkward gambling-policy contradiction after reportedly citing prediction-market odds in a campaign fundraising pitch while Ford’s own office is simultaneously fighting to keep major prediction-market operators out of Nevada. Nevada Independent gaming reporter Howard Stutz flagged...

FACTORY COMEBACK: White House Touts Manufacturing Surge as Nevada Industrial Base Keeps Growing

LAS VEGAS, Nev. — President Donald Trump’s White House is declaring an American manufacturing comeback, pointing to rising factory employment, higher blue-collar wages, surging industrial investment and record goods exports as evidence that the administration’s tariff and tax policies are pulling production back onto U.S. soil. A new 14-page report...