The Ruby Mountains are a centerpiece of Nevada’s public lands. Whether it’s hiking to alpine lakes and glacial cirques, angling for brook and rainbow trout, or snowshoeing through a powdery byway, there is an outdoor adventure for everyone waiting in the Rubies.

Educators, students, and families are living in an unprecedented moment in our history to inform and influence the Nevada State Department of Education (NDE), school districts, and schools to dramatically improve our education ecosystem.

Headlines continue to call attention to a shortage of workers in the leisure and hospitality sector here and around the country. Workers are supposedly staying at home and avoiding work given federal unemployment insurance benefits — or so the story goes.

After a challenging year for public schools and the end of the most recent legislative session, it finally looks like brighter days are ahead.

I’m not going to pretend I know what critical race theory is. Refusing to do so, however, apparently puts me ahead of a lot of Nevadans.

The world would be a much better place if we invested ourselves a little more in playoff hockey, and a little less in partisan politics.

These are very good days for Nevada’s Democrats.

The prospect of a new sheriff is often met with bated breath by the various stakeholders of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD). At all levels, whether officers, civilian staff, employee unions, policymakers, police reform advocates or residents, it comes down to one of two questions: Will it be business as usual, or will the new sheriff shake things up?

The Legislature is not required to comply with the state’s open meeting law. I wonder how many people are taken aback by this statement and how many think it is not a good idea.

No state has aged quite like Nevada. Decades of often nation-leading growth have brought millions of new people from all over the country and the world seeking opportunities they can’t find elsewhere. And yet, despite rapid and radical changes in population and demographics, much of what made Nevada Nevada has stayed the same.

The United States is undergoing a clean energy revolution. We are overhauling the electric grid, making it more efficient and secure and tapping our rich supply of low-cost, carbon-free domestic energy resources. All of that is good news for Nevada.

This week marks my last at the UNLV Immigration Clinic. For the last two years, my job has been to represent (mostly) children who the United States government is determined to deport.

What sounds like common sense at first blush can quickly turn into a can of worms upon further investigation.

After doing nothing for more than a year to distance the Nevada Republican Party from Proud Boys and militia activists at its rallies, state party chairman Michael McDonald is blaming others for noticing it.

The COVID-19 pandemic brought Nevada’s tourism-based economy to its knees. Many of Nevada’s small businesses struggled to get by as pandemic-induced lockdowns kept visitors out of the state.

Recently the Pfizer vaccine was authorized for children ages 12 to 15, and, at the time of this writing, Moderna is now seeking FDA emergency authorization for this age group as well. With this in mind –– and as a family physician ­–– one of the most common questions I hear from patients is why should I get my child vaccinated?

Complex legislation is barely vetted and jammed through, unintended consequences are all but guaranteed.

Nevada Department of Occupational Safety and Health Administration Chief Administrator Jess Lankford quietly left his position recently. It was a leadership role he’d held for seven years.

It’s easy to spend someone else’s political capital.