Governor Sisolak sets aside $5 million for free community college options
By Lucia Starbuck
Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak says he’s setting aside $5 million toward free community college programs. The money is from federal COVID-19 relief funds.
The governor didn’t provide specifics but says it will help launch recommendations made by the state’s Workforce Development Committee. It was created last year to ensure that training programs in the state align with current workforce demands.
Lucia Starbuck is a corps member for Report for America, an initiative of the GroundTruth Project.
Report: BLM skipping environmental reviews for grazing permits on millions of acres
By Bert Johnson, Mountain West News Bureau
A new report shows the Bureau of Land Management has been skipping environmental reviews for grazing permits on millions of acres.
The report comes from the nonprofit Western Watersheds Project. Researchers tracked how often government employees completed mandatory analysis for grazing permit renewals. They say permits were renewed on more than half of available public lands in the West without any analysis last year.
According to Josh Osher, the problem comes from a loophole designed to give the bureau time to catch up on a multi-year backlog. He says the number of environmental reviews has been going down ever since.
“There’s clear evidence that the lands under the bureau’s protection are unhealthy due to grazing, and the…
