In The News: Brookings Mountain West
Economic recovery continued in the major metropolitan areas of the Mountain West – including Denver – in the fourth quarter of 2012, said a report released Thursday by Brookings Mountain West.
From the patio dining area of Tacos El Gordo on Las Vegas Boulevard, there’s a view of the city’s past five agonizing years, its uncertain present and its possibly exhilarating future.
Just because Congress has not acted on climate change does not mean the president is powerless. The Environmental Protection Agency has considerable power to make regulations that would reduce carbon emissions. So how well can it work and what is the best way to achieve lower carbon? Brooking Institution Fellow Philip Wallach will be discussing those questions at a lecture at UNLV.
Washington wants to give swing states such as Nevada money, and Nevada needs to let Washington give it.
After years of record foreclosures and job losses, the Sun Belt is recovering some of its lost appeal as the population begins to grow again in counties from Florida to Arizona.
Republicans have made immigration reform a priority after last November's election. But how will the left and the right bridge the gap that exists in what that reform should look like? Brookings researcher Audrey Singer will speak at UNLV in March. She joins us to talk immigration reform.
Over the past three months, minority business organizations in California and Nevada have met in high-speed train diversity summits centered on the prospect of the $6.9 billion XpressWest train project planned between Las Vegas and Southern California.
Economists who have been calculating gross domestic product and trade deficits for years have turned their attention to happiness. They want to know what makes people happy, and what governments can do to promote more happiness in their citizens. But first they have to know how to measure happiness in the first place. So what does happiness mean to you? And do you know what you need to achieve happiness?
More than 100 state and local government leaders took part in a Thursday morning gathering at UNLV to help set the stage for a more unified voice from Southern Nevada when the 2013 Legislature opens next month.
The nation's population growth remains near historic lows as it struggles to recover from the Great Recession, new Census estimates show.
Don’t look now, but our business community is going to grow exponentially overnight in a few years.