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Two new Brookings Mountain West studies show Nevada ties Arizona, Colorado and Utah for the lowest state child care investment in the region, but Nevada’s own statewide desert rate runs nearly 10 percentage points worse than any of the three, a gap this publication calculated independently and that neither report explains.
Clark and Washoe counties issued separate smoke advisories the same day, Sept. 16, but the closest fire feeding either one is still across the state line, and the nearest fire actually burning inside Nevada, 165 miles from Reno, is already 92% contained.
Clark County’s own budget forecasts undershot this fall’s enrollment collapse by more than four times, a gap this publication calculates cost the district roughly $75 million in unanticipated state funding and forced a second round of cuts on top of the $50 million already trimmed in the spring.
The panel that sets the revenue figures Nevada’s budget runs on left its gambling tax forecast untouched for 18 months while actual collections ran far ahead of it, a track record now facing its next test as the state’s tourism chief warns the same panel of a slowdown.
A $2 million grant for 28 schools this month consumed nearly half of the $5 million Nevada set aside statewide to build new free preschool classrooms this year, even as the per-pupil funding rate underneath the whole program has lost about 18.5% of its buying power to inflation since lawmakers set it five years ago.
A November question would let Boulder City open 14,000 acres to data centers at rents the campaign says will run 10 times higher than solar’s. Divide the city’s own $1.336 billion, 70-year revenue estimate by the years in it, and the answer comes in under what solar leases are already generating this year.
Nearly all of Nevada is under fire weather alerts through tonight, in a year that has already burned more acres nationally than any point in at least a decade, and one in five Hawk Fire damage claims filed so far have no insurance behind them at all.
Steve Hill described a K-shaped tourism economy to the panel that sets Nevada’s revenue forecast, and hours later a separate federal survey showed consumer sentiment falling even further than the number he cited, but two of his own figures don’t match what his agency and the Federal Reserve have already published.
Existing home sales cooled sharply in August as mortgage rates climbed to 6.71 percent, days after KB Home announced its largest Southern Nevada project in a decade, priced from the $300,000s, as much as $175,000 below the region’s resale median.
An estimated 5,800 to 6,000 Nevadans hold Temporary Protected Status tied to El Salvador, concentrated in Strip hotels and construction crews, a share of the national TPS population roughly three to four times what Nevada’s population alone would predict.
