Watching Southern Nevada these past 30 months or so has been like watching a sick loved one wither and worsen, or like watching a continuous loop of an Ingmar Bergman film with dry, unsalted popcorn to snack on — endlessly depressing.
For Las Vegas, the end of the 2000s has been the equivalent of the housekeeper walking into a Strip hotel suite midmorning, cranking some Christian rock, and then Tasing the bedridden guest who is nursing a bad hangover.
A painful awakening.
Rob Lang, director, Brookings Mountain West at UNLV, imagines himself in 2020, looking back to 2010.
Brookings knew Phoenix, Las Vegas were hard-hit, but notes similar trend in Idaho.
The recession and housing collapse have halted four decades of double-digit growth for nearly half of the nation's biggest rapidly expanding suburbs.
Brookings Institution Economist Adele Morris is in town as part of UNLV's program Brookings West and she will be speaking at the Greenspun School of Journalism today. She joins us to explain why the Copenhagen conference will not be able to agree on a common plan to tackle climate change.
Scholar with logical but unpopular idea will give talk today.
Since the Carter Administration, the government has been trying to improve the nation's fuel economy. But the average miles per gallon are still around 27 mpg more than two decades after the effort began. What went wrong. We talk with Brookings Institution Scholar Pietro Nivola about the long and winding road to fuel economy in the United States.
Mark Muro’s thoughtful commentary in Sunday’s Las Vegas Sun, “Las Vegas’ dilemma: America’s, only more so,” was a welcome relief from the tired, negative rants generally found in the other local journal.
Brookings expert warns UNLV audience against ‘doing nothing’ to reverse warming.
LV-L.A. high-speed rail deserves funding based on traffic potential.
Air traffic volume strengthens Las Vegas’ case for high-speed rail funding.
As Detroit is to automobiles and Pittsburgh was to steel, Las Vegas is to tourism — a one-industry town. How Las Vegas can make like Pittsburgh and grow beyond its roots.
Anyone who thinks the Brookings Institution is a lefty think tank need only talk to Clifford Winston, a senior fellow in economic studies.
A new report from the Brookings Institution suggests that there's much more air travel out west than previously thought. That might also spell out the need to rethink high-speed rail in the Southwest and not limit it to the left and right coasts. We talk about the new findings with Mark Muro of the Brookings Institution.
Vegas the logical spot for such development, Brookings says.
Brookings Institution Economist Clifford Winston is at UNLV this week as part of the school's new Brookings West initiative. He is speaking Wednesday night about the lessons of the financial meltdown for regulating the financial system. We talk to him about the efficiency of markets and what he thinks the lessons are.
UNLV-Brookings partnership gives school boost in prestige.
Planners in Nevada and nearby states are envisioning regional rail service.
Brookings, UNLV will offer ideas, data to let our leaders make Vegas great.
UNLV is teaming up with The Brookings Institution. The partnership will create a western branch to bring an arm of the Washington-based think tank to Las Vegas. Brookings West will research public policy on infrastructure and quality of life changes facing intermountain west states.
Last summer the Brookings Institution identified Nevada as one of five Western states — along with Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah — poised to become a new American heartland.