20 years later, a DA has some ‘splaining to do

“The Wayner,” is how I’ve referred to Wayne Newton over the years, more or less affectionately, I guess, albeit less so when he got Trumpy. Anyway, I drive by his old ranchette, or whatever you call 40 acres (being a hick from the Wyoming sticks I refuse to refer to 40-acres as a “ranch”) every day while taking Cosmo the dog to Sunset Park. Mo is at least 12 but he can still zoom when he fetches the first couple throws! He gets slower over the next few though ha ha. But I digress.

So since I see it every day, the story about the Wayner’s ranchette maybe being turned into a housing development isn’t surprising. That seems the obvious use for it. Though reportedly the housing will be high-end, which might be the most profitable housing to build but is not the most in-demand. If only Clark County had inclusionary zoning requirements. Oh well.

IN NEVADA CURRENT

Oh Wolfie.  Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson defended this guy back in the day. But that was then. Now Wolfie is all “lock ‘em up” all the time, all cliché DA like. (Unless of course they’re rich and friendly, or if locking them up would embarrass someone in the greater Nevada law enforcement community, but again I digress.) Wolfson "represented Rickie on the very issue that the judge vacated the conviction,” said nationally prominent defense attorney Mark Geragos. “That is the most astonishing conflict of interest I’ve ever encountered in 43 years…” Michael Lyle reports: Attorneys lambast DA’s decision to retry Rickie Slaughter, question conflict of interest

Color me unimpressed. “Ford and Lombardo may feel they’ve charted courses that will safely traverse data centers as a campaign issue. Maybe they have. But neither candidate comes anywhere close to adequately confronting the actual problem, let alone the deplorable tech lords who are inflicting it upon us.” Here, I wrote a column: Ford and Lombardo aren’t leading Nevada’s data center debate. They’re just trying to navigate it.

Good to know. Reporting things that fail to make Trump look great is not, in point of fact, a national security issue. Via the D.C. bureau: Federal judge orders White House must restore press passes to 3 banned news outlets

Good luck