In The News: College of Liberal Arts
Michael Green lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he is a professor and department chair for the history department at the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³». He specializes in Nevada and Las Vegas history as well as 19th Century American history. Michael is the rare local Vegas resident who actually grew up there. Michael finds hope in his students and in the seeming inevitability of progress.
Three Texas Supreme Court seats are up for grabs this November and, for the first time in a long time, Republican incumbents are facing heat from Democrats, who see these races as the best chance Texas voters have to influence the state’s near-total abortion ban.
Over the past two decades, Tim O’Hare methodically amassed power in North Texas as he pushed incendiary policies such as banning undocumented immigrants from renting homes and vilifying school curriculum that encouraged students to embrace diversity.
Over the past two decades, Tim O’Hare methodically amassed power in North Texas as he pushed incendiary policies such as banning undocumented immigrants from renting homes and vilifying school curriculum that encouraged students to embrace diversity.
Las Vegas resident Sulhee Jessica Woo is known on social media for making elaborate bento boxes for her kids’ school lunches. Lately, though, she’s been posting a different kind of video.
After fighting for nearly a decade about who should oversee Nevada’s higher education institutions, state lawmakers are hoping voters will give them the power to overhaul the current system, which includes an elected board of regents, when they head to the polls in November.
Las Vegas is leaning into sports. There’s a shiny new NFL stadium, which in February hosted the Super Bowl. Annual Formula 1 races across the Strip. UFC fights in the Las Vegas Sphere. Arenas hosting NHL and WNBA teams.
Las Vegas is leaning into sports. There’s a shiny new NFL stadium, which in February hosted the Super Bowl. Annual Formula 1 races across the Strip. UFC fights in the Las Vegas Sphere. Arenas hosting NHL and WNBA teams.
Las Vegas is leaning into sports. There’s a shiny new NFL stadium, which in February hosted the Super Bowl. Annual Formula 1 races across the Strip. UFC fights in the Las Vegas Sphere. Arenas hosting NHL and WNBA teams.
Las Vegas is leaning into sports. There’s a shiny new NFL stadium, which in February hosted the Super Bowl. Annual Formula 1 races across the Strip. UFC fights in the Las Vegas Sphere. Arenas hosting NHL and WNBA teams.
A 26-year-old real estate investor and entrepreneur seeks to deny the former chair of the Florida Democratic Party a third term in the Florida House and capture one of the last two Florida House seats held by Democrats between Jacksonville and Pensacola.
The Tropicana will be no more by the time you wake up on Wednesday. The implosion of what was once called the "Tiffany of the Strip" is scheduled for 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday. There will be no public viewing areas, but local TV news stations will air live coverage beginning at 1 and 2 a.m. on Oct. 9. (If you won't be awake then, check back here in the morning.)