🚨 A joint LVMPD and FBI counterterrorism investigation is underway after a breach at a power substation outside of Boulder City. Boulder City Police received a report of an individual breaching a power facility gate with a vehicle on the 19th. Officers found 23-year-old Dawson Maloney dead inside the car from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Maloney was in possession of several firearms and weapons at the scene. Detectives later identified Maloney as a missing person from Albany, New York, who had previously threatened to commit an act of terrorism. Law enforcement searched his vehicle and a local hotel room. They recovered extremist propaganda and explosive materials during those searches.
🏛️ State lawmakers are voicing concerns over the number of intermediate residential care facility beds for troubled youth. According to the Nevada Current, state officials told the Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee they are committed to building 36 new beds for youth in Southern Nevada. They would replace beds that were displaced by Campus for Hope.
Previous plans to reestablish a permanent facility with residential beds for youth with severe behavioral health needs have been approved — and funded — only to later be scrapped. Democratic legislators expressed frustration over the scrapped plans and resulting budget changes. The price of the project has risen from $7.5 million to $17.5 million. Lawmakers said they feel “gaslit” and experience “mental whiplash” from all of the changes. State officials say they plan to use opioid settlement funds to help cover the project’s growing budget.
🎭 In “Sammy Davis Jr. and the Other Side of Vegas: Part 1,” we talked about the centennial of Sammy Davis Jr. He had been part of the Will Mastin Trio, then starred solo in Las Vegas showrooms. But in 1960, he was part of a major quintet. The other members were Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford. They comprised the Rat Pack, a name Sinatra reportedly hated. Supposedly, he preferred to call them “the clan,” as in a family. Supposedly, Davis told him that the name had certain connotations.
Early in 1960, as they filmed “Ocean’s 11” in Las Vegas, the five of them held what was called the Summit at the Sands. It was a happening. Hear the full story by UNLV professor Michael Green and former Nevada Senator Richard Bryan here.
💼 Clark County will host the Spring Job Fair on March 13 at the Las Vegas Convention Center West Hall. It runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and more than 100 employers are expected to be there, offering thousands of jobs. Many plan to conduct on-site interviews.
The free event is presented in partnership with the state’s public hiring agency, EmployNV. The county says the event drew a record 6,400 job seekers last year, with one in seven getting a job offer. Parking is free, and there is free child care, first come, first served. Preregistration can be completed through the Clark County website.
📊 Many people find Carson City a charming place to live. The personal finance website WalletHub does not. Its recent ranking of state capitals put Carson City in 41st place, based on livability, according to the Reno-Gazette Journal. It ranked 46th in affordability, 36th in education and health, and 47th in quality of life.
The last category factored in the percentage of millennials among those moving there, access to public transportation, average weekly work hours, and violent and property crime rates. The city’s highest rank was seventh in economic well-being. Jackson, Mississippi, was considered the worst of the state capitals. Austin, Texas, came in first.
☕ Last year, Esther Singer, an environmental scientist turned entrepreneur, rode her scooter along un-asphalted roads to a rainforest in Flores, a remote region in Indonesia, in search of coffee. After jobs at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and in the biotech field, she wanted more meaning and purpose in her life and decided to begin her exploration in her mother’s homeland.
Coffee is a $343 billion U.S. industry, according to the National Coffee Association. Brazil is the world’s leading coffee producer, followed by Vietnam, Colombia, Ethiopia and Indonesia, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Some well-known Indonesian coffees originate in the Sumatra and Java regions.
While coffee buyers purchase from importers and farm cooperatives — a centralized system that offers stable demand and pricing for Indonesian farmers — Singer omits the go-between and buys green coffee beans directly from multigenerational farmers outside of that network. She roasts them in Reno. Read the full story in Desert Companion's 2026 Spring issue.
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