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The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) is advancing its campaign with a new strategy aimed at attracting tourists through a citywide sale.

City Cast Las Vegas

At the beginning of September, Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority launched "Welcome to Fabulous," a new campaign aiming to boost our city's flagging tourism numbers — and the ⁠60-second commercial⁠ at the heart of the campaign has been widely panned by locals. So what's wrong with the ad, and why do locals hate it so much? Co-host Dayvid Figler talks with Shahab Zargari, an award-winning filmmaker and marketing expert at UNLV, and Scott Roeben, AKA Vital Vegas, industry commentator and writer at Casino.org.

The Cool Down

A startup in the Las Vegas desert is commercializing technology that can amazingly pull up to 10,000 gallons of water a day from the arid air. It's an H2O-harvesting method dubbed by National Library of Medicine-published research as an "inevitable path of the future." It could quench water supply problems in Vegas and elsewhere in the world if scaled, according to the team behind the project, called WAVR.

The EDU Ledger

The start of the upcoming semester is especially uncertain and chaotic for the nation’s over 400,000 undocumented college students, who face considerable stressors on multiple fronts.

Casinos.com

Artificial intelligence is a facet of technology in all of our lives and may be reshaping the gaming industry as we know it. From slot machines that track your every spin to surveillance cameras that can predict a fight before it happens, AI is finding its way into nearly every corner of the gambling world.

Yahoo!

Once a bustling casino and shopping stop for Southern Californians "who couldn't wait for Las Vegas," Primm has all but turned into a complete ghost town, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times.

Connecting America

Toxic fumes are leaking into airplanes, sickening crews and passengers, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. Former airline pilot Daniel Bubb discusses the issue.

The Nevada Independent

Race is a sticking point with feds in the long-running program, which offers advice and scholarship help.

Psychology Today

Personal Perspective: The dramatic decrease in NIH grants will destroy academic science.

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