Heather Wilson is one of the best Republican candidates, and is running one of the best campaigns for the Senate, anywhere in the country, the experts say.
It’s not going to create a Higgs Boson particle, but Gov. Brian Sandoval’s twin desires to not raise taxes and diversify the economy might be colliding.
The economies in Metropolitan areas in the Mountain West region are recovering at a good pace but unemployment still remains high in Las Vegas and across the entire state of Nevada. That's according to a new report from Brookings Mountain West at UNLV. Is Nevada keeping up with the region? And what needs to be done to keep pace with our neighbors in places like Arizona, Colorado and Utah?
Las Vegas ranked in the bottom third in economic recovery among the nation’s 100 largest cities during the first quarter, a report released Wednesday by the Brookings Institution shows.
Even in good times, North Las Vegas struggled to be taken seriously. Now, with a projected $33 million budget shortfall, the city’s ability to deliver basic municipal services is threatened.
For most of the past decade, North Las Vegas was one of the fastest-growing cities in America.
Lately, almost all the action in the 2012 campaign has been in the eastern half of the country. But don't forget the West.
The fact that Nevada is one of a handful of states without a corporate income tax is trumpeted by conservative lawmakers and activists as a key selling point in attracting businesses to Nevada — and reason to keep such a tax off our books.
Most everyone agrees that the American tax system is unfair, unnecessarily complicated and riddled with loopholes for special interests. There is, however, no consensus on the fix. One person's loophole is another's great social policy or national economic security. And then what should be done about popular tax breaks like the mortgage interest and charitable deductions? Brookings Institution Economist Adele Morris is giving her thoughts at UNLV and gives us a preview of her thinking.
P.W. Singer has established himself as one of the leading experts on modern warfare - drones and robots as well as armies of children and corporate employees. Singer is the Senior Fellow and Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution. He is speaking Tuesday night at UNLV on "What is Changing in War and National Security." He joins us ahead of the lecture.
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I’m generally skeptical of and resistant to pom-pom boosterism. So at the Chamber of Commerce’s Preview Las Vegas 2012 on Thursday, I snickered some at the optimism and good cheer, half expecting Gen. Westmoreland or Donald Rumsfeld to emerge and tell us they see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Las Vegas may have taken a powerful body blow when the economy was down for the count, but speakers of Thursday’s Preview Las Vegas 2012 say the city is making a comeback.
The freeways are being widened and McCarran has a new terminal but does that cover Las Vegas infrastructure needs? Could new roads and railroads really strengthen the economy in Southern Nevada? And what else will diversify the kind of business that is carried on in Nevada?
A new report finds growing urban and minority populations that will affect redistricting and reapportionment in the Mountain West.
Hedge funds could be the next big player in the Las Vegas real estate market. And I’m not talking about apartment complexes or commercial property. I’m talking single-family homes.
Exported goods and services from Nevada generate $7 billion in sales, but leaders say the state could be reaping more.
With that bold declaration, Gov. Jan Brewer proclaimed before a joint session of the Legislature this week that Arizona now boasts a budget surplus, the first in four years.
Heading into continued budget negotiations with Congress, as well as November’s presidential election, the Obama administration insisted this week in Las Vegas that the federal government should not retreat from hefty investments in education, infrastructure and research and development.
Tom Loveless is a former sixth grade teacher and Harvard public policy professor. He’s been studying the achievement gap, education policy, and school reform. So how can we reform our school district? What would teachers and the state have to do? How do we close the achievement gap? And can we compete on a global scale with other countries, whose students surpass us? Tom Loveless of the Brookings Institution weighs in.
I have a warring nature: I’m an optimist who expects the worst to eventually happen. So here’s what I’m hopeful about this year, though I’m sure it will be terrible.
Which presidential candidate will win Nevada in 2012? Will Nevada decide to soften its heart and better fund education? Will our freeways be less congested?