Summers-Armstrong attributes her passion, drive and community-oriented mindset to her family, especially her grandmother, who attended college as a 17-year-old in the Jim Crow South to become a teacher. Summers-Armstrong described fond memories of her grandmother sharing stories and encouraging her to follow what was “good and fun and right, and to just enjoy and to love.”

For the first time since the double-decker buses made their Strip debut in 2005, the RTC started subsidizing the resort corridor route in the most recent fiscal year. Ridership and revenue have fallen dramatically since September 2015, when ride-share companies began legally operating in Southern Nevada. 

Las Vegas’ future could hold a new underground mass transit system — but it’s no subway. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority announced a partnership with the Elon Musk-linked Boring Company Wednesday that would see an underground tunnel connect the sprawling Las Vegas Convention Center campus end-to-end by the time a new expansion is slated to open in early 2021.

Legislative committees are focusing less on bills and more on presentations on Thursday, with plans to hear about the performance of Nevada’s marijuana taxes, the state’s early childhood education system and regional transportation authorities.