A documentary crew from C-SPAN, the nonprofit cable network devoted to politics, last month spent four days in Nevada, uncovering snippets of Las Vegas history and exploring corners of Southern Nevada’s literary landscape.

Whether you believe in Hillary or Bernie, or #NeverTrump has become #Whocaresifhesamisogynistbigot, they won’t accomplish much without majorities in Congress, and local policies won’t mirror theirs without support in the state and local offices affected by the June 14 primary.

Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson, one of the most influential voices and wallets in the Republican Party, has endorsed Donald Trump for President.

Few events have gone from fact to fable as quickly and decisively as that of the 1964 killing of Kitty Genovese. For decades we’ve heard references to the poor young woman stabbed again and again on a New York City street while some 38 people—Genovese’s neighbors—watched from their windows without making a move to help.

I have a conflict of interest. John L. Smith is a friend of mine. And I’m prouder than ever to say that.

After Sheldon Adelson bought the Las Vegas Review-Journal, then-acting editor Glenn Cook told Smith he couldn’t write about his new boss, who several years ago sued Smith for libel and forced him into bankruptcy. The case was dismissed. New editor J. Keith Moyer just informed Smith that Steve Wynn is off-limits because Wynn sued him unsuccessfully—despite Wynn since having granted interviews to him.

Call this the quiet period. Campaigns are raising money. Testing themes. Sending out press releases.

The Nevada Commission on Ethics issued a decision Wednesday saying that despite “sufficient credible evidence” that North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee acted outside the scope of his office to influence city hiring, such actions don’t violate the state ethics law.

The Nevada Commission on Ethics issued a decision Wednesday saying that despite “sufficient credible evidence” that North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee acted outside the scope of his office to influence city hiring, such actions don’t violate the state ethics law.

When Jay Sarno opened Circus Circus casino in 1968, he charged an admission fee to visitors. “He thought it was so unique and wonderful that people would pay to go in,” says UNLV history professor Eugene Moehring.

Granted, he hasn't even been nominated or elected. But what if ... what if Donald Trump becomes President? How much of a jackpot would that be for America's gaming capital?

Little more than a week after Donald Trump easily won Nevada’s Republican caucus and professed his love for “the poorly educated,” many Republicans were appalled that during a presidential debate, he assured Americans his penis is normal, although he obviously isn’t. They seemed less appalled that he did so in response to “establishment” choice Marco Rubio suggesting it wasn’t, uh, huge.

While driving home to California following his less-than-triumphant two weeks at the Last Frontier in Las Vegas in February 1954, song-and-dance man Ronald Reagan, then at the lowest point in life, shared his sorrows with Nancy Reagan.