The historic deals finalized late last year mark a major turning point: For the first time in the Culinary Union’s 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized. Backed by 60,000 members, most of them in Las Vegas, it is the largest labor union in Nevada. Experts say the Culinary Union’s success is a notable exception in a national landscape where union membership overall is declining.

The historic deals finalized late last year mark a major turning point: For the first time in the Culinary Union’s 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized. Backed by 60,000 members, most of them in Las Vegas, it is the largest labor union in Nevada. Experts say the Culinary Union’s success is a notable exception in a national landscape where union membership overall is declining.

The historic deals finalized late last year mark a major turning point: For the first time in the Culinary Union’s 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized. Backed by 60,000 members, most of them in Las Vegas, it is the largest labor union in Nevada. Experts say the Culinary Union’s success is a notable exception in a national landscape where union membership overall is declining.

Experts note that cuts to services for people with disabilities are often the first to take place, but they’re vital for ensuring independence.

Nevada is famous for having a name that people constantly mispronounce. Say Nuh-VAH-duh in a crowd of Nevadans and expect weird looks. To locals, the Silver State is pronounced Nuh-VĂD-uh. Yet politicians, celebrities and out-of-towners keep getting it wrong.

Las Vegas’ jobless rate was again among the highest in the nation for big metro areas in June, new data shows, as tourism keeps sliding in America’s casino capital. The Las Vegas-area’s unemployment rate, 5.8 percent, was third highest among the 50-plus metro areas with at least a million people, according to non-seasonally adjusted data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Changing the requirements for a law license and supporting financial help for public-interest lawyering are among the ways that state supreme courts can help address “staggering” unmet legal needs, according to a report by a group of state chief justices and court administrators released Wednesday.

Lamay said she found the Public Education Foundation’s Teacher Fastrack program through district emails seeking people interested in becoming licensed teachers. That program paid for her to go back to school and prepared her to go on to UNLV’s Teacher Apprenticeship Program, which allows students to continue working in their school jobs as they work toward teacher licensure.

You have likely heard that walking 10,000 steps a day is beneficial for health.  Is there any scientific evidence or rationale? Are there any firm guidelines by the US Department of Health and Human Services in this regard?  How to monitor our steps? How many of us count our steps?   These are just some questions that arise in our minds, so let us examine them closely.