New online program is part of the Biden administration’s effort to ease the filing process and comes amid opposition from for-profit tax preparation companies. Nearly half a million Nevadans are eligible for a new service allowing them to directly file their taxes with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for free. Nevada is one of 12… [Read More]
Pieces of Nevada’s history are endangered. Historians are raising awareness to help save them.
Every other year, Preserve Nevada lists 11 of the state’s most threatened sites. Sometimes the sites are saved. Other times, they disappear. Good morning, and welcome to the Indy Environment newsletter. I’m Amy Alonzo, the environment reporter for The Indy. What makes something worth saving? Is it age? Sentimental value? Cultural significance? Everyone has something that… [Read More]
Departing consul looks back on his 3 years representing Mexico in Las Vegas
From processing passports to promoting Mexican art, the consulate plays a key role for Nevada’s many Mexican-born residents. Julián Escutia Rodríguez, the consul of Mexico in Las Vegas, is leaving the post and the city on Jan. 31 after three years — during which he helped organize COVID-19 vaccination and testing events at the consulate,… [Read More]
Nevada polls on working class, Hispanic voters highlight 2024 battlefield
In 2016, Donald Trump’s presidential victory was powered by the support of a constituency historically aligned with the Democratic Party — the working class. In 2020, Joe Biden defeated Trump through an electoral coalition that despite attempted Republican inroads relied heavily on Latino support — particularly in Nevada, where he won 60 percent of the Latino vote. Since that… [Read More]
Venezuelans in Nevada cheer TPS extension, acknowledge it’s an incomplete fix
Though it will allow many immigrants the ability to legally reside in the U.S., the program’s benefits come in 18-month increments and don’t lead to citizenship. Venezuelans in Nevada say it’s “truly a blessing” that the Biden administration extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) last week, allowing more than half a million Venezuelans who are already in the… [Read More]
What does the latest court ruling mean for DACA recipients?
Head of UNLV Immigration Clinic sees Dreamer program on ‘borrowed time,’ with financial consequences spiraling through the community if it is eliminated. A Wednesday decision by a federal judge in Texas against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program paints a grim future for “Dreamers,” who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. DACA, an… [Read More]
Many Nevadans on Medicaid could lose insurance as pandemic-era coverage policy ends
Roughly 200,000 Nevadans’ health care coverage is likely to be affected by the March 31 end of a pandemic-era federal policy requiring states to keep Medicaid recipients continuously enrolled in the health care program for low-income people. It’s a change that will take place over the next year and one that officials warn if done recklessly could… [Read More]
‘An honest living’: Vegas street vendors say new law could bring their work out of the shadows
Under his rainbow umbrella, which protects him from the harsh summer sun, Luis Sanchez happily serves one of his usual customers a raspado — shaved iced — into a plastic cup with homemade strawberry syrup on top. For the past five years, Sanchez has sold snacks from a cart in a North Las Vegas neighborhood as his… [Read More]
High school classes could start later under proposed regulation
Start times at public high schools are the target of guidelines in a new regulation the State Board of Education is preparing to draft. State Board of Education members met Wednesday to discuss creating the regulation that would bring some high school start times closer to recommendations from experts who found that early start times… [Read More]
Lombardo effort to end some job license requirements attracts Latino support
Free market Latino advocacy groups are lining up behind Gov. Joe Lombardo’s efforts to remove licensing requirements for more professions in Nevada. The executive order, signed by Lombardo in January, aims to phase out licensure requirements for certain occupations by July 1 if licenses are not required for such professions in a majority of states. It… [Read More]
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