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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.
Nevada Substitute and Nevada Paraprofessional Educators Skills Development Programs: Current and future Nevada substitutes and paraprofessionals will learn how to support elementary students in the development of critical reading skills in alignment to the Science of Reading. Scholarships for tuition and fees are available. These programs will be offered by the College of Southern Nevada, Great Basin College, Truckee Meadows Community College, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the University of Nevada, Reno, and Western Nevada College.
A group of personal injury law firms have given over $4.5 million to campaigns and political committees in Nevada since 2017, a report shows.
After resounding losses in the lower courts, former United States President Donald Trump’s claim of immunity from prosecution for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss now heads to the Supreme Court, a key development likely to further delay his trial as he again runs for re-election. The nation’s highest court will only hear arguments during the week of April 22 after an appeals court on 6 February unanimously rejected his claim that he was shielded from criminal prosecutions over actions taken while in office.
He sought to invalidate the results of the 2020 elections, tried to attack democracy and fueled the rebellion - this is what the prosecutor's office believes. Donald Trump was charged many months ago. - The attack on our nation's Capitol on January 6, 2021 was an unprecedented attack on the seat of American democracy. As described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies. The defendant's lies were intended to obstruct the process of collecting, counting and certifying presidential election results across the country, according to Jack Smith, the special prosecutor investigating Donald Trump.