The critical need to maintain access to air medical services for residents of Nevada’s rural communities is undeniable. Each year, thousands of patients are flown from frontier towns to cities that have the facilities to treat the most seriously ill and gravely injured. By and large, Nevadans haven’t noticed this lack of easy access to Tier I and II trauma centers because air medical services have stepped up to fill the gap.

Nevada entered brave and controversial territory in medical ethics this fall after the enactment of pioneering legislation that permits early-stage dementia patients to commit themselves to rejecting all future nutrition and hydration—natural and artificial—during the course of their illnesses.

What does it mean to solve the homeless problem?

Those who have followed the sad dance between Las Vegas government and its homeless population probably felt a sense of deja vu during Wednesday’s boisterous City Council marathon.

During much of October of this year, California’s two largest power companies shut down power to millions of customers to prevent more wildfires from being caused by high-wind damage to the power grid.

Rishma Khimji is the Director of Information Technology for the City of Reno. If you’re like most people, this item of information is utterly meaningless and swiftly forgotten. Even for me, as someone who has worked in Information Technology for a decade and a half, this piece of information is only mildly interesting and, honestly, swiftly forgotten.

“All For Our Country”: When it comes to sacrificing our land, airspace, and even our families who lived downwind of the Nevada Test Site to the military, Nevada has more than lived up to its state motto.

In Southern Nevada there are more people experiencing homelessness on any given night than there are shelter beds or other resources. As a result, the shelters are full most nights of the year and thousands of people sleep on sidewalks, in storm drains and other places where no human should live.

Around 2003, various residents of Incline Village and Crystal Bay noticed their property tax bills inexplicably increased, or were radically different from similarly situated neighbors. It turned out that the county tax assessors were literally just making up their own rules for determining the taxable value of property.

Listen awhile to advocates for a new city ordinance that’s meant to move street-camping homeless from sidewalks and trash-strewn lots into shelter, and you can almost imagine a kinder, gentler Las Vegas. That’s a Las Vegas where there are enough beds for the down-and-out no matter their condition, one that has a continuum of care that’s more than a turnstile.

Clark County has a problem: The students don’t want to go to school. It’s hard to blame them. I don’t like loud, crowded places either.

David was a bright and earnest seventh grader so I was surprised when halfway into the school year, his attendance became spotty. Soon, he began missing every Tuesday, and consequently fell behind in class. When I pressed him, he admitted that he had to stay home to babysit his sister while his mother was at work.

Research in higher education remains as essential today as it did in 1952 and should be considered in broader terms, not just in the often-obvious realm of science or engineering.

A few weeks ago, we joined dozens of Nevadans in Reno for a first-of-its-kind summit on one of the most devastating problems affecting our state: the fires devastating our rangelands and impacting our communities. As we sat in that room with firefighters, ranchers, conservationists, scientists, power company executives, representatives of government agencies, and others, we were encouraged to see how many partners from all over the state are committed to keeping our communities safe and working with us to undertake prevention efforts and help affected communities rebuild.

The American judicial system as we know it is under attack. On Wednesday, the Senate held a confirmation hearing to approve former Nevada and Montana Solicitor General Lawrence VanDyke’s nomination the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Lawrence VanDyke has never served as a judge.

From a procedural standpoint, as Rep. Amodei went to great pains to explain in his uniquely circuitous way, it’s a little early for that. Congress first needs to decide what they’ll impeach President Trump for and that will require people to focus on a specific Trump action for longer than the average lifespan of a fruit fly.

It was obvious from a glance around the bustling Hard Rock meeting hall that the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition foreign policy forum would be well attended and include some of Nevada’s most powerful business and political leaders.

A few weeks ago, as revelations that two political candidates in 2018 were given large donations by foreign nationals in an amateurish attempt to secure lucrative marijuana sales licenses came to light, Gov. Sisolak expressed his outrage.