In The News: Greenspun College of Urban Affairs

KNPR News

Earlier this week, Mayor Carolyn Goodman publicly begged the governor to lift business restrictions on non-essential businesses.

Las Vegas Review Journal

A plan to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus inside prison walls — and potentially free nonviolent and elderly inmates during the outbreak — should be reviewed by the state’s top government leaders, the Nevada Sentencing Commission decided Monday.

Nevada Current

What should Nevada do with its incarcerated population amid a global health pandemic?

Las Vegas Sun

Today, we face two unprecedented challenges due to COVID-19: the immediate health crisis and the resulting economic emergency. Southern Nevadans have faced many challenges, and defeating COVID-19 and implementing an economic recovery plan will test our mettle once again — like never before.

Las Vegas Sun

In the American dream, hard work and ambition are rewarded, and everyone has an equal chance of access to wealth.

Yahoo!

The number of homeless people in the US will see a “staggering and unprecedented” increase because of the coronavirus crisis and its impact on the economy, experts have warned. Some say without an “astronomical” response by the government, the numbers could double.

The Independent

Without ‘astronomical’ government intervention totals could double

Marvel

Marvel has an extended family that stretches far and wide. Over the past decade, countless figures have joined the House of Ideas, often coming from an equally wonderful world with its own tenured pedigree. The Creative Director of Marvel Themed Entertainment, Brian Crosby, blends the universes of Marvel and Disney as a fan-turned-fixture of the former who got his start working with the latter! And hey, you might've even seen him recently leading livestream How To Draw episodes about Spider-Man and Groot!

Market Watch

If your loved one, best friend or roommate is one of the few who has yet to get on board with coronavirus public-health recommendations — even in the midst of what the U.S. surgeon general warned could be the “hardest and the saddest week of most Americans’ lives” — there are still a few strategies at your disposal.

Las Vegas Sun

Bryce Palafox can wake up five minutes before his classes begin at UNLV and still be on time. There’s no jockeying for a parking spot or racing across campus from the dorms.

Las Vegas Sun

Bryce Palafox can wake up five minutes before his classes begin at UNLV and still be on time. There’s no jockeying for a parking spot or racing across campus from the dorms.

Las Vegas Review Journal

He wrestled with the decision over three or four sleepless nights.