Michael Lyle

Nevada State University current and former faculty members and students say they have tried to speak out, in vain, against a push from the university’s administration to tear down diversity serving programs. Students see NSU’s curbing of resources for Hispanic and undocumented students as part of the larger push nationwide to rein in diversity, equity […]

With the “No Kings” rally returning this weekend bringing thousands out to protest President Donald Trump’s administration, Beth Osborne, an organizer with the grassroots movement Indivisible, expects bigger crowds in Las Vegas, as well as other cities across the country, than in the two demonstrations earlier this year.  But one thing about the protest in […]

Democratic U.S. Rep. Dina Titus called Republicans’ false claims that the government shutdown was part of Democratic push to extend benefits to undocumented immigrants an “outright lie” as she warned of the damage of ending health care subsidies.   Titus, accompanied by panelists from Nevada Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence, the Nevada Campaign for […]

Nevada’s child care crisis should warrant a special session rather than efforts to give public subsidies to film studies, advocacy groups say.  “We don’t think this is the time where we need to be giving tax incentives to billionaires,” said Denise Tanata with The Children’s Cabinet. Instead of “giving money away, we should be creating […]

This story is the second in a series on the connections between housing instability and child welfare. This project was supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s National Fellowship and Fund for Reporting on Child Well-Being. It was a little after 4 a.m. on a May morning when Victoria left the homeless encampment […]

An abrupt change to federal funding requirements by the Trump Administration could put nearly 1,000 formerly homeless individuals in Nevada at risk of losing their permanent housing, according to a new analysis by the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH).  The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in November announced new restrictions to Continuum […]

With President Donald Trump calling on Congress to ban corporate homeownership at the federal level, Nevada Congressional Democrats are pushing the administration to support existing legislation that monitors, but doesn’t cap, investor ownership of single family homes.   U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford and U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen sponsored the Housing Oversight and Mitigation Exploitation (HOME) Act […]

State lawmakers and justice reform groups are questioning the associated costs and services available on tablets offered to those incarcerated at correction facilities.  Assembly Bill 35, passed nearly unanimously during the 2023 legislative session, authorized those incarcerated within Nevada Department of Corrections facilities to have telecommunications such as tablets.  Proponents of the bill said access […]

State lawmakers are eying solutions to address Nevada’s high auto insurance rates, which ranks among top 10 in the country.  Insurance rates rose 13% in the state in 2025 and are expected to keep rising this year, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.  The drastic increase has been felt nationwide but has been […]

Southern Nevada health officials in the last year found a decrease in opioid deaths, expanded overdose intervention resources like naloxone, and launched a street medicine program to provide primary health care to unhoused people. While the state is often on the bottom of health rankings, Southern Nevada health officials focused on recent endeavors to improve […]