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Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker is expending political and financial capital around the country — from Ohio to Nevada — on ballot measures to enshrine abortion protections in state constitutions. But similar efforts in Illinois remain in limbo.
Growing up as a gay teen in Las Vegas, Zachary Billot said he felt encouraged to see gay-straight alliance clubs on school campuses, which signaled that those schools were welcoming environments. He has continued to see that support at UNLV, which has similar clubs and resources for LGBTQ+ students.
The lead professors at pro bono law clinics who help retail investors pursue small-money claims hope a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission-sponsored summit will inspire other universities to start their own clinics.
The Marjorie Barrick Museum on the UNLV campus has always been a container for feeling. Every work of art it features holds multiple complex themes and ideations. The most recent exhibition, The Emotional Show, brings these already present factors to the forefront, a gambit of sentiment forming a panorama of emotional landscapes. In the panoply of sensations in attendance, fear and its corollaries present themselves boldly. The work in this show has become pronounced in relevance since the December 6 UNLV campus shooting that had the museum staff sheltering in place with terror and uncertainty.
Fifth-generation Nevadan Bo Bernhard is vice president of economic development and a professor at UNLV and served as the inaugural research director at the UNLV International Gaming Institute. His great great grandfather was a card dealer in Dust Bowl-era Texas and Oklahoma who got tired of ending up on the wrong side of the law while working and moved to Las Vegas. His own family’s story, Bernhard says, is an example of how gambling and tourism have resulted in many different people deciding to live and work in Las Vegas, and these days, “the stuff attracting people is more mainstream. The NFL is something that’s beloved, and you can find it in 32 locales across the United States.”
As Problem Gambling Awareness Month is about to get underway, states around the country, weighing whether they have been doing enough
Up to nine of the 16 out-of-state companies whose CEOs were wined and dined during Super Bowl Week will relocate to Southern Nevada, the head of the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance predicts.
An airline is set to split friends and family up in new plane boarding rules. One method that is being used by United Airlines splits up friends and families for the boarding process.
Getting passengers on and off planes in an orderly fashion can be a nightmare for flight attendants.