The Daily Rundown: August 4, 2026
🚗 Following feedback from developers, the city of Henderson is set to de-prioritize electric vehicle parking. In a May letter, Henderson City Council staff recommended increasing EV reserved parking requirements for multifamily residential spaces from 3% of spaces to 10%.
The letter noted that "Henderson's current EV-capable requirements are overall slightly higher than other western states and peer cities."
However, a follow-up letter in July reveals that developers reached out to voice concerns about the proposal. Staff again revised the proposed ordinance, reversing the increased EV parking recommendation. The City Council will vote on the change today, August 4th.
🐶 The Animal Foundation is out of space for new arrivals and is looking for the community to adopt or foster pets. The shelter said on social media Sunday, August 2 that there were 470 dogs on-site, which has made keeping them all safe difficult.
Overcrowding leads to stress, stretches staffing and resources, and allows illnesses to spread more quickly.
They are asking people to adopt or foster medium and large dogs, especially those already on the At Risk list. They say every dog moved into the community means there is space for the next one.
Adoption fees for adult pets 6 months or older have all been waived this month (August).
🏗️ A proposed data center project in Henderson is no longer moving forward, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. The move comes after the City Council voted last month to change municipal codes, which would require data center operators to enter into negotiated development agreements.
In November of last year, the Henderson Planning Commission approved a conditional use permit for Trammell Crow Company to build a data center complex on a 157-acre parcel of land.
The commission gave Trammell Crow a six-year approval period for the project after the developer told the city in a letter that construction time for utility and power was scheduled for completion in 2030.
🌽 For Leland Swain, an enrolled member of the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians, his stories are told through stews, karate bread and beans — "a lot of beans," he says.
Swain was born in 1948 and raised on the Moapa River Indian Reservation. He was part of the new generation on the reservation, he says, a generation that began six years after his tribe gained federal recognition in 1942. The tribe lived on land that the U.S. government gave to the Moapa Paiutes in the early 1870s, then reduced to only 1,000 acres by 1875.
Before that, the Southern Paiute had lived along the Muddy River and farmed traditional foods like maize, beans and squash in the arid desert, where summer temperatures top 100 degrees. Earlier generations hunted and gathered to eat.
It was a tough life, Swain says. "We didn't have to do that. We hunted and gathered our pine nuts."
His generation saw the introduction of the grocery store. Today, most of the dishes cooked in Native communities are made with ingredients from those stores.
But that doesn't mean traditional practices stopped. Moapa Paiutes still hunt and gather, just not out of necessity. And in the generational overlap between Swain and his grandmother, Topsy Chappo Swain, there are dishes he grew up eating and still makes today.
KNPR's Jimmy Romo speaks with Leland Swain about how Native food traditions continue to preserve culture, history and community across generations. Read the full conversation online here, or in Desert Companion's newest issue, available now.
🥑 If you go to a store like Whole Foods, you'll find a lot more than … whole foods. You'll also find bougie packaged snacks, cereals and all sorts of other processed foods and drinks. Often they'll have buzzwords on their packaging: "Organic." "Non-GMO." "High protein." "No Cholesterol." "100% Avocado Oil." These products tend to cost more, and they come with a sort of promise: They're better for you than the cheaper stuff.
But these food products may not actually be healthier than the cheaper stuff. Sometimes it's because they're still packed with sugar, salt, saturated fat, preservatives and other additives. Other times, their healthy-sounding ingredients aren't actually healthier (labels like "organic" and "non-GMO" don't necessarily make a product more nutritious). In other, more extreme cases, these products may not even include the healthier ingredients they're charging you a premium for.
The economics of healthwashing starts with a simple reality: We often don't really know what's in the food products we're buying.
Economists have one of those off-putting, jargony terms for this: asymmetric information. But it's a simple idea. It's when one side of a transaction has less information than the other. And it can have serious consequences for the health of a marketplace.
Read the full story by NPR's Greg Rosalsky here.
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