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The Nevada Republican Party announced it will hold its presidential caucus Feb. 8, two days after the state’s presidential preference primary.
Let’s get something straight: Nevada may be the Mississippi of the West, but so are Arizona, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Colorado, and any state in any part of the country. Illinois is the Mississippi of the Midwest and so are all of the other Midwestern states. New York is the Mississippi of the Northeast and so are the other 12 northeastern states.
Campaign leaders and their archives recall the year-long fight that resulted in secure abortion rights, even post-Roe
In the Oscar-nominated 2003 movie “The Cooler,” William H. Macy portrays a downtown Las Vegas casino employee whose job is to reverse winning streaks. Bernie Lootz — get it, lose?— has such extraordinary bad luck, all he needs to do is sit next to a guest experiencing good luck and it stops.
Sin City landmarks where the King made his home, made movies, and made music history
Millions of people in the United States with federal student debt might have to readjust their spending this fall, when student loan interest and repayments are slated to resume after a three-year pause brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.
For over 50 years, Nevada has been the only U.S. state with legalized prostitution — but it’s only allowed in brothels, and even then, only in a few rural counties. A small grassroots effort is underway this summer to expand legal brothels to Douglas and Churchill Counties — but why not Clark County? How did Sin City opt out of this particular “sin”? Today, co-host Dayvid Figler chats with UNLV sociology professor Barb Brents, a leading expert on sexual commerce, about how we got here, and if (and how) Clark County could get brothels, too.
The Villarreals weren’t the only family dealing with a premature birth. The preterm birth rate in Nevada is 11.2%, according to the March of Dimes’ 2022 Report Card, an increase from 10.1% in 2017. It exceeds the nation’s 10.5% rate of premature births, a number that has been growing for the past decade.
Authors surprised themselves at how earmarking federal land sale money for Nevada would pay such dividends for parks, trails and conservation.