NV Energy stumps itself.

Your official United States of America vice president is (was?) scheduled to come to li’l old Las Vegas tomorrow for a luncheon organized by the Republican National Committee. The price of having the honor of being on the "host committee" is only $200,000 per couple, which presumably includes special time to ask Trump's fall guy for juicy insider info like: After Trump made Rubio wear clown shoes did JD tease Rubio, and did Rubio cry?

More budget-conscious wannabe courtiers can attend the advertised luncheon for a mere $50,000 per person.

Nevada Democrats were planning an event to commemorate Vance coming to Our Fair City, so that's nice.

Only hours ago Vance departed Switzerland where he has been on the team tasked with creating peace in our time, or whatever the Trump administration equivalent of that is. So where do you suppose Vance's contribution to the Iran negotiations falls on a participation scale, with "thought-leader" on one end and "bored manosphereian making Kalshi bets on his phone" on the other?

Anyway, assuming this very special Las Vegas luncheon happens and Vance isn't rushed back to negotiations with Iran to singlehandedly rescue civilization, let's hope he hydrates. Sorta hot out there.

IN NEVADA CURRENT

It's complicated. NV Energy said by now they'd show you how their exotic "peak demand charge" billing methodology will work when it goes into effect at the end of the year, by providing you with example comparisons on the bills you're getting now. That way, or so the thinking apparently goes, you won't be freaked out, because you will have a chance to see how benign the utility's highly unusual billing system is. Because c'mon, NV Energy's middle name is benign, NV Energy might say. And quit calling the peak demand charge billing scheme "exotic," NV Energy might add. But it must be at least a wee bit exotic even to NV Energy, because although they said they would show you examples of how it would work on electricity bills by now, they haven't, because they ... can't? Dana Gentry reports: NV Energy’s pledge to compare bills with and without peak demand charge fizzles

Meanwhile in one of Trump's other wars, specifically, the one on democracy... “All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote," a federal judge ruled.  The DC bureau's Jonathan Shorman reports: Trump ‘trampled’ voter privacy by feeding info into Homeland Security system, judge says

Four years after Dobbs and the abortion bans several states adopted in its wake, exceptions provided in those bans are too ill defined to give doctors and hospitals enough confidence to provide timely care. Stateline's Sofia Resnick reports: Miscarriage management remains muddled 4 years after Dobbs

Good Luck