By Jacob Solis The Nevada Independent For the graduate students of Nevada, assistantships have long been a means to an end, a modest part-time stipend designed to defray the inability to hold a full-time job while writing a thesis or dissertation. But the last half-decade’s crushing mix of surging housing costs, coupled with soaring prices for food and gas, have … [Read more...]
Washoe County School Board candidates divided on curriculum
By Rocio Hernandez The Nevada Independent More than two years after COVID-19 emerged, disrupting schooling routines and student learning, a trio of conservative Washoe County School Board candidates are challenging incumbents on hot-button education issues including social justice and sexual education curriculum. The District B, C and F seats on the Washoe County … [Read more...]
Climate change magnifies health impacts of wildfire smoke in care deserts
By Julie Appleby and Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez The Nevada Independent Smoke began billowing into the skies of northwestern Nevada in September, clouding the mountains, dimming the sun — and quashing residents’ hopes that they would be spared from wildfires and the awful air quality the blazes produce. The lung-irritating particles were blowing in from burning forests in … [Read more...]
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Learning to appreciate news reporter Jeff German: A remembrance
by John L. Smith When I first met Jeff German in the early 1980s at the Las Vegas Sun, I was a wisecracking sports columnist working on my best Jim Murray-meets-Mike Royko impersonation. German was a young hot-shot news reporter/columnist from out of town trying to take Vegas by storm. He wrote like Sgt. Joe Friday talked. If he had a sense of humor, he kept it well … [Read more...]