In The News: Greenspun College of Urban Affairs

Las Vegas Sun

As the former chairman of the Nevada Regional Transportation Commission and a guiding force behind such projects as the Desert Inn arterial and the 215 Beltway, which was named in his honor, Bruce Woodbury is a foremost expert on the transportation systems of Las Vegas.

KSNV-TV: News 3

T-Mobile Arena holds the current crown as the largest and newest performance venue on the Las Vegas Strip. And if some executives from New York's Madison Square Garden have their way, it will have company.

Las Vegas Review Journal

About 72 percent of the juvenile victims of human trafficking in Nevada come from within the state, experts said Wednesday.

Washington Post

In an interview last month about Facebook’s recent push into live streaming video, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg repeats the word “raw” like it’s some kind of sacred totem. Facebook Live is “raw and visceral,” he says. It’s this “new, raw” way to communicate.

Las Vegas Review Journal

About 72 percent of the juvenile victims of human trafficking in Nevada come from within the state, experts said Wednesday.

USA Today

They’re the unsanctioned shock troops of Bernie Sanders’ vaunted online army, digital rogues who've plagued Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid and embarrassed Sanders' campaign.

Washington Post

After California’s prison population reached the crisis stage of overcrowding — with some prisons at 300 percent capacity — the state in 2011 began to parole thousands of inmates to their original counties. Within 15 months, more than 27,500 inmates had been “realigned” from state prisons to county jails or to parole in what was called “an act of mass forgiveness unprecedented in U.S. history.” This led to the understandable fear that suddenly returning thousands of convicts to the streets would cause a spike in crime.

Ed Prep Matters

Diana Gomez always felt a pull toward a teaching career.

KNPR News

High-rolling sports bettor and golf course developer Billy Walters’ long run of good fortune in Las Vegas may have come to an end with his indictment this week on 10 federal charges alleging insider trading and wire fraud.

USApp – American Politics and Policy

The 14th Amendment guarantees that Americans are all equal under the law, but in reality this is often not the case. In new research which covers nearly 78,000 felony defendants, Gillian M. Pinchevsky and Benjamin Steiner examined the whether or not criminal defendants received different treatment based on their sex or other characteristics during their pretrial period. They find that compared to men, female defendants were treated more leniently during the pretrial process. In addition, women arrested for more serious offenses were treated more harshly than other women.

Los Angeles Times

As a teenager some 30 years ago, Dan Natarelli said he would sneak into the Normandie Casino on Rosecrans Avenue in Gardena to play cards. If he wasn't winning, he'd simply leave and walk to one of the other five card houses nearby, hoping his luck would change.

Las Vegas Sun

Robin Mendoza couldn’t stand the sight of blood, which ruled out being a doctor or a nurse.

So at the urging of her parents, who wanted her to go into medicine, she instead settled on pursuing a career in pharmacy. She studied the subject at the College of Southern Nevada’s high school, a program for college-bound students offered in partnership between CSN and the Clark County School District, but she quickly found herself struggling.