The state’s unemployment rate has hit a nine-year low. But we can still do better.

In March, young attorneys Katelyn Leese and Alissa Cooley told Desert Companion that they were worried the program they worked for — representing undocumented immigrant children in the U.S. legal process — would end if they didn’t find some funding beyond the Justice AmeriCorps grant that paid for their services at UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic. They didn’t want their vulnerable young clients to end up with no one to guide them through the arcane workings of immigration court.

Tuesday’s State of the State address will be Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval's chance to set the agenda for the legislative session that begins Feb. 6.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, in his Tuesday night State of the State address, referred to the $115 million in new investment for the Nevada System of Higher Education as “strategic.”

The changes are dramatic, from the up-and-down play on the court to a lack of fervor in the stands, from the obvious drop in talent for one side to a colossal amount on the other, from contesting games at or near the top of the Mountain West standings to doing so with the hopes of climbing out of eighth place, from a disappointing record to a complete rebuild, from a heated rivalry to just another midweek game.

UNLV is among the universities around the country participating in a push by the Obama administration to demographically shore up the Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplace by signing up more young adults.

The idea of a transcontinental highway in the West, spanning from Mexico to Canada, has been kicking around for decades. The possibility of this “CANAMEX” route, bookended by two international trade ports, has stirred high hopes for greatly expanding trade opportunities, industrial development, and new jobs for people and communities throughout the West.

I stared at the crimson-colored organ sealed in industrial-strength Tupperware and labeled with the international symbol for biohazard.

College campuses are supposed to be bastions of open expression. But during the recent presidential campaign rules to keep debate orderly at UNLV led to fractious discourse and left some students wondering where they could speak freely and safely.