In The News: College of Liberal Arts
Nevada Swing State Insights.
Las Vegas likes to read. The city has a fantastic library system, great independent bookstores like Writer's Block and Las Vegas Books, and an acclaimed writers program at Black Mountain Institute at UNLV.
For the first time since 1995, a member of the flamboyant Goodman family won’t be on the ballot in Las Vegas. Mayor Carolyn Goodman is term-limited. But the race to succeed her is roiled by issues about the city’s future, not its past.
Since Donald Trump arrived on the national scene, the women of America have been central to the fight to keep him from amassing power. On January 21, 2017, the day after Trump’s thinly-attended inauguration, hundreds of thousands of women flocked to the streets of Washington, D.C. for the worldwide Women’s March, protesting the ascension of an acknowledged sexual predator who would be found liable for rape years later.
Las Vegas celebrity Dan Bilzerian has shoveled mounds of money into Nevada politics, allowed by a legal loophole that lets him give the maximum over and over again to the same candidate through corporate entities, records and interviews show.
She loves raisin bran and exercise, and is as comfortable talking about abortion as she is about beer. Meet Kamala Harris -- or at least a rather different side that emerged in an unconventional US media blitz this week. After weeks of largely avoiding interviews since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, Harris has taken a leaf out of rival Donald Trump's playbook and started speaking to a host of podcasters and friendly outlets.
When Sydney Stern bought an Apple Watch four years ago, she was excited to try out all the new features, especially the sleep tracker. A health scientist, the 27-year-old Maryland resident was well aware of the correlation between sleep and disease prevention. But what Stern thought would be a boon to her health became a harm, leading to anxiety and, in the end, less sleep.
Question 1 on the Nevada ballot proposes amendments to modify the authorities of the Nevada System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents. Another election means another go at trying to make question one a law. It failed in 2020.
On the evening of October 5, 1969, Gerald Davis stepped out of his house in West Las Vegas to fix his mother’s car and noticed police officers had pulled over a taxicab nearby. Known by residents as the “Westside,” this Black-majority area is located west of downtown, literally divided by the railroad tracks running through the city. Patrol vehicles were a familiar sight on the Westside, though younger residents claimed the police seemed less interested in civil service and more prone to brutality and intimidation.
On a Wednesday afternoon under a blazing sun and clear blue sky, Claudia Monreal and Artenasa Orocco pulled up on a neighborhood street in east Las Vegas. Armed with political flyers and an app on a phone showing where to go, they began knocking on doors as the temperature in Nevada approached 100 degrees.
Las Vegas is one of the top international destinations in the world these days. A city full of diversity, but its roots come from Hispanic influence.
Las Vegas is one of the top international destinations in the world these days. A city full of diversity, but its roots come from Hispanic influence.