LAS VEGAS — Patricia Mulroy, who oversaw the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s (SNWA) development during the region’s greatest period of growth, will join the newly formed Nevada Center of Excellence at Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) next month, according to a press release.
All my life I have been part of a 20-year plan. As far back as I can remember, the early 1950s for example, my father and his friends like Wilbur Clark, Jerry Mack and Parry Thomas would talk about the future of Las Vegas. And they did it in 20-year increments. They were relatively young men at the time; I was just young.
This summer, climate deniers will gather for their annual meeting of the twisted minds, the International Conference on Climate Change, organized by the Heartland Institute and underwritten by the good people who brought you climate change in the first place. Their choice for a venue? The beautiful Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nev.
For nearly a quarter of a century, the United Nations has released periodic reports collating thousands of scientists’ assessments of climate change. The bottom line: the accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions from the human enterprise constitute a threat to the planet. That makes climate change the most urgent, consequential, dangerous, and difficult challenge of our time. Arguably, it fits that billing for any time. The only other case of humanity threatening its own survival is the specter of global thermonuclear war, which is easier to deal with: avoiding World War III is a matter of leaders’ not doing something—pressing the buttons that launch the missiles. Keeping climate change at bay is a matter of taking action on numerous fronts and doing so seriously, massively, effectively, and soon.
Patricia Mulroy has been called “the water empress of Vegas.” For 25 years, she lead the Southern Nevada Water Authority, the agency responsible for keeping the taps running in a desert metropolis that was growing like the fat guy in the Monty Python skit. As I wrote yesterday, she was a force to be reckoned with.
Cliven Bundy the man might be disgraced and discredited after his racist comments last week, but his anti-governmental stance has inspired a host of activity resisting the federal government -- including calls by Western state leaders to take back federal lands. We'll talk the ins-and-outs with our panel, and also hear how the Bundy saga is hurting Bureau of Land Management progress outside of Clark County.
Growing up in this starchy historic city in the 1990s, Jessica Duggan remembers field trips with her mother to the historic Battery neighborhood, watching tourists "doing the horse thing and the market thing." She dreamed of staying here as an adult, but had to admit: Her hometown was hopelessly uncool.
When it comes to water issues in the West, if not the world, there are few people who can speak as authoritatively as Pat Mulroy.
The Las Vegas economy is on the mend but not even close to recovered.
That’s the word from a new report that shows big gains in housing and employment have yet to offset the devastation of recession.
Recently retired water czar Pat Mulroy is bringing her expertise and reputation as an international leader on water issues to a pair of institutions with a connection to UNLV, the Sun has learned.
LAS VEGAS – Patricia Mulroy, who oversaw the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s development during the region’s greatest period of growth, will be named Senior Fellow for Climate Adaptation and Environmental Policy at UNLV’s Brookings Mountain West.
Africa has enjoyed great rates of economic growth in recent decades. But it still has high rates of corruption and troubled areas of war and poverty. What will it take to make the continent more sustainable? And more able to provide and raise a living for the booming population? John Page says it can no longer rely on selling resources. So what's his plan? What should Africa do?
UNLV is pushing to be a Tier 1 Research University. Supporters of the effort say it will help lure top of the line professors to Nevada's largest institution of higher learning. But are the costs worth it? And will the investment pay off? We talk to an economic expert that says probably not.
Jim Wheeler represents Gardnerville, a little town of 5,600 people about a half-hour east of Lake Tahoe, in the Nevada Assembly. Last fall, he gained instant national notoriety when a video surfaced in which he said he would vote to support slavery if that’s what his constituents wanted. He was roundly criticized by media outlets both national and local, as well as leaders of his own party. Wheeler soon apologized.
When the City Sports running store opened here in 2006, then-manager Cami Walker found himself "begging people to come in." The store was one of the first in the new Harbor East neighborhood near the popular Inner Harbor tourist zone.
The relationship between the U.S. and China is now the most important part of the world's diplomatic puzzle. Neither side wants war, but the U.S. is unwilling to give up its long-held dominance in the Pacific, and China is unwilling to allow that to continue as its economic power in Asia grows. So how can this problem be negotiated? In an era of shrinking defense budgets, is the decline of American power inevitable?
UNLV acting President Don Snyder lobbied Las Vegas business leaders Wednesday to support the university’s quest to become a top-tier research institution.
The integrity of the Internet has been thrown into doubt by the revelations of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. He says the spies are destroying the Web. So what has to happen to ensure that the Internet is safe and secure for people both here and abroad? Brookings Institution fellow Joshua Meltzer will be discussing those issues at UNLV on Wednesday night.