In The News: The Lincy Institute

Chicago Tribune

Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker is expending political and financial capital around the country — from Ohio to Nevada — on ballot measures to enshrine abortion protections in state constitutions. But similar efforts in Illinois remain in limbo.

Nevada Independent

Republican front-runner Sam Brown threw a curveball in Nevada’s Senate race last Wednesday when he revealed in an NBC interview that he would not support a federal abortion ban and respects Nevada’s current law protecting abortion up to 24 weeks.

New York Times

Democrats say the state’s economy is getting better, while Republicans argue it’s getting worse. Which message resonates more could decide the pivotal battleground state this fall.

Deutsche Tageszeitung

Donald Trump's name is not on the ballot in the Republican presidential primary on Tuesday in the US state of Nevada - the ex-president is still expected to win the desert state's delegate votes: The Republicans have another opportunity to support their favorite this week. In the Democratic presidential primary in Nevada, Trump's successor, incumbent Joe Biden, will be the favorite in the race on Tuesday.

Guardian

Nikki Haley is competing in just the primary, but only the caucuses award delegates for the Republican presidential nomination

Nevada Independent

Voters see an uncompetitive primary. Team Biden sees an opportunity.

Las Vegas Sun

Former President Donald Trump took to social media last week minutes after being declared the winner of the Republican presidential primary in New Hampshire.

Longmont Daily Times-Call

A 2020 UNLV study “The Urban Heat Island Effect in Nevada” found those increases can be significant, ranging from 4.9 F in Denver to 5.9 F in Albuquerque to 7.3 F in Las Vegas. When all of the artificially inflated 2022 temperatures of stations in the new UHI areas formed since 1980 are interpolated into the gridded dataset that alone could account for much of the contended 2.3 F increase.

Nevada Current

Access to mental health services in Nevada is atrocious. The state ranks 51st nationally in overall mental health and last again for similar categories in youth mental health. Statewide, there is one mental health professional for every 460 residents, and every Nevada county is federally designated as having a mental health provider shortage. Unfortunately, this is not news.

Nevada Independent

A sweeping higher education bill that sought to dismantle the Nevada System of Higher Education’s (NSHE) governing structure is likely being turned into a study, according to a proposed amendment presented to a legislative committee Wednesday — but would still aim to create new, individual governing boards for the state’s community colleges.

KNPR News

On a drive through rural Nevada, Lisa Bernad saw something that stunned her. On a road near Goldfield, there was a Confederate flag proudly displayed outside a building.

KNPR News

It’s common knowledge that for most of human history, ours has been a male-dominated society. But that’s changing.