🟣 These Spring Creek students want to name Nevada’s first state fruit. KUNR
“Twenty years ago, third- and fourth-graders helped make pumpkin the state fruit of New Hampshire. Now, that idea is inspiring kids in Northern Nevada … The students learned more about the blue elderberry, a large native shrub or small tree that grows on mountain slopes and near streams in canyons throughout the state.”
🟣 Investment group to buy the Vancouver Whitecaps Major League Soccer team and move to Las Vegas. The Associated Press
“[Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber] has expressed hope the Whitecaps could find a way to remain in Vancouver and said expansion to Las Vegas could also be a possibility. Las Vegas is not necessarily the only city being discussed.”
🟣 Laborers union—and its dozen PACs—try to exact retribution for vote against film subsidy bill. Nevada Current
“Labor unions last year warned there would be political consequences for state lawmakers who voted against what would have been the largest public subsidy in Nevada history. Now, the fallout from the failed film studio bill appears to be playing out in a state Senate race whose winner will be decided during the primary.”
🟣 Another earthquake shakes western Nevada just after midnight. Carson Now
“Early Friday morning’s earthquake racked up a 5.2 magnitude measurement by the USGS Seismology Lab, placing itself on the ‘significant’ list of recent earthquakes worldwide. A whopping 459 quakes from the area are listed by the USGS … only seven [have measured] at a 4.0 or higher.”
