In The News: Brookings Mountain West

Former President Donald Trump took to social media last week minutes after being declared the winner of the Republican presidential primary in New Hampshire.
A 2020 UNLV study “The Urban Heat Island Effect in Nevada” found those increases can be significant, ranging from 4.9 F in Denver to 5.9 F in Albuquerque to 7.3 F in Las Vegas. When all of the artificially inflated 2022 temperatures of stations in the new UHI areas formed since 1980 are interpolated into the gridded dataset that alone could account for much of the contended 2.3 F increase.

Why is Nevada such an attractive alternative to Southern California, and what kind of impact has the influx of new residents had on Las Vegas and surrounding communities?

Why is Nevada such an attractive alternative to Southern California, and what kind of impact has the influx of new residents had on Las Vegas and surrounding communities?

Draconian anti-abortion policies in Texas and other states forcing women to give birth at the cost of their own health, compromised or dead fetuses, or jailing women and their doctors have stimulated questions about whether American states can co-exist with each other. But instead of a new “war between the states,” we may be seeing red states acting out anti-urban politics against their own cities and metropolitan areas—not only culturally, but economically.

Social media sites such as X and Reddit would be flooded with videos of frightened students scrambling across the Maryland Parkway campus fearing for their lives, others posting messages that they were safe. Also included in the torrent were posts filled with inaccuracies that ignited a chain of misinformation.

The medicinal and recreational use of legal cannabis is still relatively new in Nevada, where lawful sales debuted in 2017, and the regulation of consumption lounges is being worked through. That’s part of the reason why UNLV created its Cannabis Policy Institute, which is believed to be the first of its kind in Nevada and possibly in the United States.

The medicinal and recreational use of legal cannabis is still relatively new in Nevada, where lawful sales debuted in 2017, and the regulation of consumption lounges is being worked through. That’s part of the reason why UNLV created its Cannabis Policy Institute, which is believed to be the first of its kind in Nevada and possibly in the United States.

The medicinal and recreational use of legal cannabis is still relatively new in Nevada, where lawful sales debuted in 2017, and the regulation of consumption lounges is being worked through. That’s part of the reason why UNLV created its Cannabis Policy Institute, which is believed to be the first of its kind in Nevada and possibly in the United States.

Access to mental health services in Nevada is atrocious. The state ranks 51st nationally in overall mental health and last again for similar categories in youth mental health. Statewide, there is one mental health professional for every 460 residents, and every Nevada county is federally designated as having a mental health provider shortage. Unfortunately, this is not news.

A sweeping higher education bill that sought to dismantle the Nevada System of Higher Education’s (NSHE) governing structure is likely being turned into a study, according to a proposed amendment presented to a legislative committee Wednesday — but would still aim to create new, individual governing boards for the state’s community colleges.

A severe lack of child care is rippling through the state, affecting not only families but their places of employment.
