This economy’s ‘culminating venue’: Eviction court

The lure of escapism, s’pose. When the new season of “The Diplomat” dropped, I did not rush to it. Don’t get me wrong, I found the earlier seasons delightful. But just as the first Trump administration rendered the criminality and intrigue in “House of Cards” quaint by comparison, and made the show seem outdated and obsolete, I worried that political fiction featuring sane, competent characters who are by and large trying to do the right thing would seem too far-fetched and unbelievable while in the real world humanity is being subjected to the madhouse that is Trump’s second term. But it turns out the show is still easy and fun to watch, so yay.

IN NEVADA CURRENT

2026 marks ten years since sociologist Matthew Desmond published “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.” In addition to being awarded a Pulitzer, the study sparked an increase in news coverage on the impacts of eviction policies nationwide. Three years after the book was published, the pandemic knocked the world off its axis, and policy responses included efforts to prevent evictions. Those protections would later be scaled back or eliminated, and the eviction epidemic picked up where it had left off before the covid pandemic. Fast forward to today, and matters have been made all the worse as the cost of living has become even more of a crushing burden. Meanwhile, Nevada’s eviction laws were always uniquely tenant-hostile, landlord-friendly, and badly in need of reform. And they still are. Michael Lyle reports: An unaffordable economy’s ‘culminating venue’: Eviction court

Remember that time the feds got together and said “hey let’s just cold screw Arizona, California, and Nevada, water-wise” (or words to that effect) so Nevada sued? Arizona joined the suit Friday. Jeniffer Solis reports:  Arizona joins Nevada lawsuit over Colorado River cuts

Vote early. But not often. Industrious Jen reports: No Kings rally in Las Vegas coincides with first day of early voting

Note: I took a quick gander at the early voting and mail voting stats on the secretary of state’s turnout-tracking website (which is much cleaner and easier on the eyes than the old presentation, btw) this morning, and so far it looks like Nevada’s sort of echoing the story that’s been reported in other states where voting is underway: Democrats look more eager than Republicans. I say “sort of” because the Democratic enthusiasm appears to be more pronounced in some other states, including fellow so-called battlegrounds North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. (So yet again I’m prompted to note that in 2006, an election year that in some ways looks a lot like this one, Nevada failed to emulate the national trend).

Good Luck