4 years later, NV's post-Dobbs abortion landscape

Your president prioritizes his war on democracy over your hope for affordability. Trump this morning decided to kick and scream and cry and yell "you no friend!" or whatever at Senate Republicans because they won't scrap the filibuster to pass one of Trump's assaults in his war on democracy, the Orwellian-dubbed SAVE Act. (It's not clear Senate Republicans would muster the votes to pass the damned thing even if they did scrap the filibuster.) And so because mere mortals refuse to do as His Magisterial  Master of World-Historical Military Blunders and Failing Cement Pond Systems commands, Trump is refusing to sign a bipartisan bill that, according to the States Newsroom D.C. bureau, "sought to lower the costs of housing construction by removing regulatory barriers, expanding the uses of federal housing grants and banning institutional investors from buying single-family homes."

IN NEVADA CURRENT

Dobbs and Nevada. Recently released data indicates in the first six months of 2025, 44% of abortions in Nevada involved a clinician prescribing abortion medications remotely and patients receiving those medications by mail. Reproductive rights advocates believe the data reflects the changing landscape of abortion care and underscores how national efforts to stop telehealth abortions would negatively impact Nevadans despite the state’s established protections. April Corbin Girnus reports: Telehealth, mailed medications mark post-Dobbs landscape of Nevada abortion care

Seoul patch. Ioneer’s Nevada project had earlier hooked up with a South African mining firm, but that outfit backed off its nearly half-billion investment, due in part to lithium prices, which only have started rising measurably this year after plummeting from (irrationally exuberant) peaks in 2022. Now it's South Korea to the rescue. Maybe. Meanwhile, conservationists continue a different sort of rescue mission, as they fight in the courts to to protect an endangered flower at the mine site. Jeniffer Solis reports: Australian firm gets South Korean backing for Nevada lithium mine

Las Vegas and Reno are the two fastest-warming cities in the nation, with heat-related deaths on the rise. State lawmakers during the 2025 Legislative Session mandated the state’s two most populous cities and counties adopt heat mitigation strategies. Las Vegas might be near the cusp of adopting theirs. Leilah Ortega reports: City of Las Vegas inches toward legislatively mandated heat mitigation plan

Eh, Trump's bored with it anyway. The constitutionality of this — or even if it will make it to court in the first place — is up in the air, so there's a chance this means doodly squat, other than to signal that it finally might be dawning on Senate Republicans that they, you know, exist. Ashley Murray reports: Senate seconds House, votes to shut down Trump’s Iran war

But he'll never tire of appealing to the nation's least attractive instincts. A federal court Tuesday cleared the way for  fast-track deportations within the interior of the country and not just at the Southern border, a key pillar in Trump's  creepy mass deportation campaign. Ariana Figueroa reports: Court sides with Trump administration on nationwide fast-track deportations

Good Luck