John L. Smith
@nevadasmith.bsky.social
Father, husband, writer, native Nevadan. Columnist with The Nevada Independent. Still throwing rocks at castles.
My latest column for The Indy -- OPINION: The corporate stranglehold on housing only tightens with the death of SB10 thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...
OPINION: The corporate stranglehold on housing only tightens with the death of SB10 - The Nevada Independent
OPINION: The corporate stranglehold on housing only tightens with the death of SB10. Read more at The Nevada Independent.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
My latest column for The Indy -- OPINION: The corporate stranglehold on housing only tightens with the death of SB10 thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...
OPINION: Jacky Rosen takes heat after voting to end shutdown — but does she deserve it? thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...
OPINION: Jacky Rosen takes heat after voting to end shutdown — but does she deserve it? - The Nevada Independent
OPINION: Jacky Rosen takes heat after voting to end shutdown — but does she deserve it? Read more at The Nevada Independent.
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November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
OPINION: Jacky Rosen takes heat after voting to end shutdown — but does she deserve it? thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...
Nevada Sens. Rosen, Cortez Masto explain why they voted to end the shutdown thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...
Nevada Sens. Rosen, Cortez Masto explain why they voted to end the shutdown - The Nevada Independent
Nevada Sens. Rosen, Cortez Masto explain why they voted to end the shutdown. Read more from The Nevada Independent.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Nevada Sens. Rosen, Cortez Masto explain why they voted to end the shutdown thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...
Ralenkotter boosted Vegas tourism, but a former Strip CEO's company helped push him out thenevadaindependent.com/article/rale...
Ralenkotter boosted Vegas tourism, but a former Strip CEO's company helped push him out - The Nevada Independent
Ralenkotter boosted Vegas tourism, but a former Strip CEO's company helped push him out. Read more from The Nevada Independent.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Ralenkotter boosted Vegas tourism, but a former Strip CEO's company helped push him out thenevadaindependent.com/article/rale...
Anti-hunger groups in Nevada strain to meet record demand. SNAP pause is just one reason. thenevadaindependent.com/article/anti...
Anti-hunger groups in Nevada strain to meet record demand. SNAP pause is just one reason. - The Nevada Independent
Food banks in NV face a triple whammy: cuts in federal grants that help them buy food, rising costs of groceries and the impending end of federal food benefits.
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November 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Anti-hunger groups in Nevada strain to meet record demand. SNAP pause is just one reason. thenevadaindependent.com/article/anti...
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Nevada representatives are blaming their political opponents for the shutdown and highlighting the harms it could — or already has — inflicted on Nevadans’ food, health care and paychecks.
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As government shutdown drags on, Nevada reps sound alarms over food stamps, health care costs - The Nevada Independent
Nevada’s congressional delegation have been active in town halls and press calls, blaming their political opponents for the fallout.
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October 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Nevada representatives are blaming their political opponents for the shutdown and highlighting the harms it could — or already has — inflicted on Nevadans’ food, health care and paychecks.
thenevadaindependent.com/article/as-g...
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Reading proficiency is improving among Nevada elementary students. But literacy rates still largely lag behind pre-pandemic numbers as the state approaches the rollout of a policy to hold back underperforming third graders.
Read about it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...
Read about it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...
Nevada 3rd grade reading rates up, but fewer than half proficient as retention rule looms - The Nevada Independent
Across the past three school years, third graders are doing better every year in reading proficiency. But less than half of the more than 35,000 Nevada third graders read at grade level.
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October 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Reading proficiency is improving among Nevada elementary students. But literacy rates still largely lag behind pre-pandemic numbers as the state approaches the rollout of a policy to hold back underperforming third graders.
Read about it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...
Read about it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company has purchased a handful of properties near the proposed pathways of its Vegas Loop transportation tunnels. Observers say the plan — and its prospects for success — is an open question.
Read about it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/why-...
Read about it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/why-...
Why has Musk’s Boring Co. quietly been buying real estate along Las Vegas Loop? - The Nevada Independent
Is construction along Boring Co.’s Las Vegas Loop part of Elon Musk’s master plan? Or, as critics say, a gamble with long odds?
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October 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Elon Musk’s Boring Company has purchased a handful of properties near the proposed pathways of its Vegas Loop transportation tunnels. Observers say the plan — and its prospects for success — is an open question.
Read about it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/why-...
Read about it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/why-...
OPINION: NBA betting scandal surprise anyone? I didn’t think so. thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...
OPINION: NBA betting scandal surprise anyone? I didn’t think so. - The Nevada Independent
One veteran of the legal side of the sports betting industry puts it bluntly: If the bookies used were legal, they were dangerously unsophisticated. If they were illegal, they were asking for trouble ...
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October 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
OPINION: NBA betting scandal surprise anyone? I didn’t think so. thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...
New Mexico is providing free childcare for all. It’s time for others to do the same | Katrina vanden Heuvel
October 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
New Mexico is providing free childcare for all. It’s time for others to do the same | Katrina vanden Heuvel
OPINION: Two Nevada data center developers settle in for a long legal fight for AI profits thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...
OPINION: Two Nevada data center developers settle in for a long legal fight for AI profits - The Nevada Independent
OPINION: Two Nevada data center developers settle in for a long legal fight for AI profits. Read more at The Nevada Independent.
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October 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
OPINION: Two Nevada data center developers settle in for a long legal fight for AI profits thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...
OPINION: With senseless killing at sea, Trump administration’s credibility sinks further thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...
OPINION: With senseless killing at sea, Trump administration’s credibility sinks further - The Nevada Independent
OPINION: With senseless killing at sea, Trump administration’s credibility sinks further. Read more at The Nevada Independent.
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September 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
OPINION: With senseless killing at sea, Trump administration’s credibility sinks further thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...
“Under the microscope”: Activists opposing a Nevada lithium mine were surveilled for years, records show thenevadaindependent.com/article/unde...
“Under the microscope”: Activists opposing a Nevada lithium mine were surveilled for years, records show - The Nevada Independent
The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have for years worked alongside private security to surveil protesters who oppose Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine, according to internal law enforcement c...
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July 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“Under the microscope”: Activists opposing a Nevada lithium mine were surveilled for years, records show thenevadaindependent.com/article/unde...
OPINION: In competing data center developers’ road forward, Switch wins — for now thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...
OPINION: In competing data center developers’ road forward, Switch wins — for now - The Nevada Independent
The judge ruled that Tract’s efforts to move an easement as Switch was acquiring the landlocked acreage from industrial park developer Roger Norman violated the terms of that part of its purchase agre...
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July 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
OPINION: In competing data center developers’ road forward, Switch wins — for now thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...
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July 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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OPINION: Nevada tries to remove the joker from the deck with FAIR BET bill thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...
OPINION: Nevada tries to remove the joker from the deck with FAIR BET bill - The Nevada Independent
OPINION: Nevada tries to remove the joker from the deck with FAIR BET bill. Read more from The Nevada Independent.
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July 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
OPINION: Nevada tries to remove the joker from the deck with FAIR BET bill thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...
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June 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Good morning from Reno.
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“There is a vast chasm between the concept of freedom inscribed on paper and the reality of freedom in our lives.” Revisit Jelani Cobb‘s piece, from 2020, on Juneteenth and the meaning of freedom.
Juneteenth and the Meaning of Freedom
Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones.
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June 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“There is a vast chasm between the concept of freedom inscribed on paper and the reality of freedom in our lives.” Revisit Jelani Cobb‘s piece, from 2020, on Juneteenth and the meaning of freedom.
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We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
June 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
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Christian nationalist with assault weapons are domestic terrorists! Now, the Senate GOP tax bill will arm them with silencers, short-barreled shotguns & rifles - which have been heavily regulated by the ATF since 1934. #StopGOPMurderBill #EndGunViolence
Took a deep dive into the alleged Minnesota assassin's religious background....from his spiritual awakening in a vegetable canning factory.... to his enrollment at a charismatic christian bible school in Dallas, and found evidence linking him to christian nationalism
www.wired.com/story/christ...
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The Minnesota Shooting Suspect's Background Suggests Deep Ties to Christian Nationalism
Experts say that the suspect in the shootings of Democratic Minnesota lawmakers this weekend showed clear ties to forms of so-called charismatic Christianity that views abortion as a sacrifice to demo...
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June 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Christian nationalist with assault weapons are domestic terrorists! Now, the Senate GOP tax bill will arm them with silencers, short-barreled shotguns & rifles - which have been heavily regulated by the ATF since 1934. #StopGOPMurderBill #EndGunViolence
OPINION: Hearing offers an impressive glimpse of a brewing Nevada data center battle thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...
June 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
OPINION: Hearing offers an impressive glimpse of a brewing Nevada data center battle thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...