In The News: Brookings Mountain West
Southern Nevada’s economy is less diversified compared to other Mountain West metropolitan areas despite gains in key economic sectors over the past decade. The Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) unveiled a study prepared by 51ԹϺ’s Brookings Mountain West, Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER) and Transportation Research Center that addresses key barriers and makes recommendations to strengthen and diversify the Southern Nevada economy.
Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker is expending political and financial capital around the country — from Ohio to Nevada — on ballot measures to enshrine abortion protections in state constitutions. But similar efforts in Illinois remain in limbo.
Republican front-runner Sam Brown threw a curveball in Nevada’s Senate race last Wednesday when he revealed in an NBC interview that he would not support a federal abortion ban and respects Nevada’s current law protecting abortion up to 24 weeks.
Democrats say the state’s economy is getting better, while Republicans argue it’s getting worse. Which message resonates more could decide the pivotal battleground state this fall.
Donald Trump's name is not on the ballot in the Republican presidential primary on Tuesday in the US state of Nevada - the ex-president is still expected to win the desert state's delegate votes: The Republicans have another opportunity to support their favorite this week. In the Democratic presidential primary in Nevada, Trump's successor, incumbent Joe Biden, will be the favorite in the race on Tuesday.
Nikki Haley is competing in just the primary, but only the caucuses award delegates for the Republican presidential nomination
Voters see an uncompetitive primary. Team Biden sees an opportunity.
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 51ԹϺ 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.