Michael Lyle

2 weeks ago | nevadacurrent.com | Michael Lyle

Amid growing numbers of traffic fatalities across Nevada, state lawmakers during interim meetings last year discussed whether red light and speed cameras or enhanced infrastructure would be the best way to improve road safety. A long-awaited bill, backed by state traffic safety officials and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, to authorize traffic enforcement by automated camera was heard Monday.

3 weeks ago | thisisreno.com | Michael Lyle

by Michael Lyle, Nevada CurrentAs potential federal cuts to Medicaid loom, City of Las Vegas officials are asking state lawmakers to expand Medicaid to pay for medical respite care for unhoused people. Senate Bill 54, heard Tuesday by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, would require the state’s Department of Health and Human Services to apply for a federal waiver and amend the state Medicaid plan to cover medical respite care for people experiencing homelessness.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Michael Lyle

The Recuperative Care Center offers unhoused individuals a place to stay after being discharged from the hospital. (Photo: Michael Lyle/Nevada Current)As potential federal cuts to Medicaid loom, City of Las Vegas officials are asking state lawmakers to expand Medicaid to pay for medical respite care for unhoused people.

3 weeks ago | nevadacurrent.com | Michael Lyle

As potential federal cuts to Medicaid loom, City of Las Vegas officials are asking state lawmakers to expand Medicaid to pay for medical respite care for unhoused people. Senate Bill 54, heard Tuesday by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, would require the state’s Department of Health and Human Services to apply for a federal waiver and amend the state Medicaid plan to cover medical respite care for people experiencing homelessness.

3 weeks ago | nevadacurrent.com | Michael Lyle

Upon returning home to Las Vegas from a trip from Los Angeles, Lousetta Keyes found a 7-day “pay rent or quit” paper eviction notice taped to her apartment front door. There wasn’t anything Keyes could do since it was late at night, she told state lawmakers at  Wednesday’s Assembly Judiciary Committee hearing as she recounted the recent experience.   After a restless night spent worrying about why she was facing eviction, she went to her rental office first thing in the morning.