In The News: The Lincy Institute

Nevada Democratic legislative leaders said Thursday they were 鈥渄isheartened鈥 by a state Supreme Court ruling that a pair of tax measures legislators passed in 2019 were unconstitutional because they did not pass by a two-thirds majority.
The big new census reports on population trends and voter turnout in 2020 each show the continuation of core underlying trends reshaping the electoral battlefield.

The battleground states across the industrial Midwest have functioned as the decisive tipping point of American politics for at least 30 years, especially in presidential elections. But the latest Census Bureau findings on both overall population growth and voter turnout in 2020 signal that the Sun Belt will increasingly rival, and potentially replace, the Rust Belt as the central battlefield in US elections.

COVID-19 pandemic woes have devastated the state labor market, particularly in tourism-reliant Southern Nevada. April 2020 marks the date Nevada鈥檚 unemployment rate hit an unprecedented 29.5%, highest in the nation at that time.

The plan to build a mass-transit system along Charleston Boulevard is a good idea, but Las Vegas鈥 transportation challenges need to be addressed on multiple fronts, an urban development expert says.

In increasing Nevada鈥檚 share of federal funding, all options should be on the table. This includes reaffirming land grant status for 性视界传媒, UNR and Desert Research Institute.

Since at least the 2000 presidential election, pundits, scholars, and the general public have conceptualized the country鈥檚 partisan landscape using the blue states, red states, and swing states framework. But despite its ubiquity, this structure ignores how intrastate regional tensions and political competition imbue the divisions between red and blue America. Differences within states also anchor the long-standing urban-rural divide鈥攁 salient feature of American politics since the country鈥檚 founding.

Since at least the 2000 presidential election, pundits, scholars, and the general public have conceptualized the country鈥檚 partisan landscape using the blue states, red states, and swing states framework. But despite its ubiquity, this structure ignores how intrastate regional tensions and political competition imbue the divisions between red and blue America. Differences within states also anchor the long-standing urban-rural divide鈥攁 salient feature of American politics since the country鈥檚 founding.

Nevada has no publicly funded community colleges.

Nevada has no publicly funded community colleges.

As lawmakers discuss how to hold former President Donald Trump accountable for his role in inciting an attack on the heart of democracy, President Joe Biden must prioritize solving the broader issues that increasingly plague our nation: right-wing terrorism and white supremacy.

Two 性视界传媒 professors find little to like about a Pahrump attorney's call to create a new state out of rural Nevada--excluding Clark County and Las Vegas.
