Using data in the Mental Health America report, Brookings Mountain West at UNLV breaks out some of the findings with a more regional emphasis in its report on the “State of Mental Health in the Mountain West.” The Brookings analysis included metrics for major depressive episodes, mental illness, substance use disorders, suicidal idiation, and unmet treatment for both adult and youth population.

A new global urban-preferences study suggests that many young Las Vegans view the city as a temporary stop rather than a long-term home. Other data show that Las Vegas experiences significant churn. Census estimates indicate that about 16 percent of city residents moved within the past year, a rate higher than the Nevada average. A Lincy Institute fact sheet from UNLV, citing Opportunity Insights data, found that from 1994 to 2018 one in three young adults raised in the Las Vegas region eventually moved to another state. Independent mobility studies have also pointed to a sharp reversal in migration patterns after the pandemic boom, including periods of negative net migration.

A film tax bill described by opponents as “the largest corporate handout in Nevada history” squeaked by the Assembly on Sunday with a bare-minimum majority of votes. It now moves to the state Senate where a similar close battle is expected. A number of critics who opposed the bill cited an October 2025 economic analysis by The Lincy Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on whether film tax credits are wise for state governments to pursue.

State lawmakers wrapped up another day of Nevada’s special session Sunday, with hours of debate focused on a film studio bill that would bring tax credits to Las Vegas. The Nevada Studio Infrastructure Jobs and Workforce Training Act, known as the Summerlin Studios bill, survived the state Assembly and led to extensive discussion on Assembly Bill 5 in the Senate.

For years, those looking to expand Nevada’s film tax credit program have touted their potential to bring jobs, diversify the state’s economy and even provide funding for pre-K programs. But typically lost in the discussion is the fact that few Nevada film tax credits are used by the film industry at all.

A government shutdown is underway, and NV Senator Catherine Cortez Masto voted with Republicans to avoid it. David Damore, Executive Director of The Lincy Institute & Brookings Mountain West, discusses this and Governor Lombardo’s call for a special legislative session. Plus, the work a NV teenager did on a newly passed antisemitism bill and how the Raiders are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.

Gov. Joe Lombardo recently called for a special legislative session during which lawmakers might revisit a measure such as Assembly Bill 238 from the 2025 session. That proposal authorized up to $1.5 billion in transferable film tax credits against the financially strained state general fund. Supporters, after failing to pass the legislation last spring, are now rebranding this as a “jobs bill.” Based on Nevada’s previous evaluations and the evidence I’ve collected from other states and national experts, significant job creation seems unlikely.

A public policy think tank recommends Nevada create a commission on boys and men to address gender disparities in some of the state’s most in-demand occupations. The Lincy Institute at UNLV, in a policy brief released Monday, makes the case that gender disparities in health, education, administration, and literacy (HEAL) professions warrant a closer look by state policymakers. Men make up only 22% of the HEAL workforce.

Here in Nevada, no mid-decade redistricting has ever been attempted. But that doesn't mean the state hasn't seen its share of redistricting drama on both sides of the aisle. And while repeated attempts to turn redistricting over to an independent commission here have failed, one proponent of the idea says she'll try again this year.

Lucihub founder and CEO Amer Tadayon has started several businesses in California and Arizona. Those states never invested in his companies, but Nevada did. Thanks to a growing startup ecosystem, increasing venture capital availability and favorable investing regulations, Tadayon called Las Vegas “one of the best places I’ve ever been to be an entrepreneur.”

Intermountain Healthcare has completed a land lease agreement for Nevada’s first standalone children’s hospital.

Lawmakers in the Nevada Legislature are staring down a busy final week of the 120-day session. Friday was the last major deadline for the Silver State’s part-time legislature. But the work is far from over for hundreds of exempt bills, many of which have the biggest potential impacts on Nevadans — and looming uncertainty around cuts from the federal government could bring a special session later this year.