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Nevada Sen. Tick Segerblom Joins Conservation Groups to Challenge Trump Fracking Plan
LAS VEGAS— State Sen. Tick Segerblom and the Las Vegas Water Defender joined the Center for Biological Diversity, the Nevada Conservation League and three other conservation groups today to file a challenge to the Trump administration’s plan to auction 313,000 acres of public lands in Nevada for fracking. The leases
Rename McCarran International Airport
Former US Senator Pat McCarran’s legacy is nothing to celebrate—Nevada’s largest airport should not bear his name. McCarran’s time in the US Senate (1933 to 1954) coincided with great instability in the world. Yet as refugees of war and genocide turned to the US for sanctuary, he worked to adopt
Quality of Life in Las Vegas
Las Vegas needs to stop and smell the roses. Clark County has been growing rapidly in the past fifteen years at the expense of living standards for its average citizens. Roads are breaking apart, state and city parks are being targeted for development, public services are under stress. Tick wants
Progressive Marijuana Policy
Nevadans voted overwhelmingly to legalize recreational marijuana in November 2016, and immediately afterward I began work to ensure the law was enacted as quickly and smartly as possible. Recreational marijuana dispensaries opened for business then in record time — less than eight months after the public referendum. Nevada is now
Destroy Glen Canyon Dam
Southern Nevadans should pay special attention to emergency spillways now collapsing at the nation’s highest dam in northern California. Those people whose homes, property and livelihood hang in the balance below Lake Oroville could someday be us. The Colorado River infrastructure we so heavily rely on is patched together with