The Nevada Independent spoke with Renown’s CEO, Brian Erling, one year after he stepped into the role in December, along with a bevy of other health experts about the region’s most extensive hospital system.

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.

To hear some tell it, the University of Nevada campus might as well be Berlin circa 1932, a “right wing” hotbed of racism and anti-semitism on the very precipice of some sort of Kristalnacht conflagration. The latest proof? The University has (gasp!) allowed a conservative student group to host a conservative speaker who says bad things about socialism and doesn’t hate Donald Trump, and even worse, invites people who disagree with him to ask him questions.

“What I am calling for….we should be sure to get a call on Donald Trump to give up any transcripts or any notes taken about any conversations that he has had with Xi to determine whether this is a conversation that he’s had more than one and had it private because clearly he is inclined to do just that.”

Survey results unveiled in September at campus forums come as the university is grappling with racist and discriminatory messaging found around the university in the first few weeks of the fall semester. There have been two separate incidents of swastikas being found at residence halls and flyers were also seen that promoted a white supremacist hate group. 

As part of UNR’s $21.6 million deal with Circus Circus for interim student housing after explosions mangled two residential dorms, the university and casino will avoid paying the normal 13.5 percent hotel room tax that would otherwise be collected from individuals staying in those rooms.

Gov. Steve Sisolak proclaimed September 2019 as Nevada’s Voter Registration Month, carrying on a tradition launched in 2002 by secretaries of state across the country. It’s a particularly urgent call because one in three eligible citizens in Nevada is not registered to vote, according to the nonprofit and nonpartisan Voter Participation Center. 

For students at UNR and UNLV, there’s an easy answer — both schools encourage students to set up free banking accounts linked to their student IDs, backed by major financial institutions including Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank.