Excuse Debra Jeffries if she has a case of deja vu. She's a Culinary Union vet who has worked at Bally's for 38 years as a cocktail server.

We'll begin at Galleria Mall, where this is a very important day. It's 19-year-old Reagan Rice's first time voting.

You may know that May 15 was the birthday of Las Vegas. We celebrate the day of the auction that led to the creation of the railroad’s townsite. You may not know this May 15 was the centennial of the birth of Eddy Arnold. Yes, the country singer. And we’re not just talking about him today because the author of Nevada Yesterdays is a country music fan. There’s more to the story.

Republican House and Senate candidates are adopting one of President Donald Trump’s key issues – and his style - to get themselves elected in November.

Brazil is the country with the highest rate of people with anxiety disorders worldwide.

Technology has made many aspects of daily life much easier. So why do we still feel so overwhelmed?

It may seem surprising in an era of #MeToo and #Times Up, where a national conversation and reckoning is going on with regard to the exploitation of women, but Barbara Brents is bullish on brothels. “Time’s not up for Nevada brothels,” the UNLV professor and sex-industry researcher says. “If anything, the time is now for Nevada brothels.”

Technology has made many aspects of daily life much easier. So why do we still feel so overwhelmed?

As Nevada goes, so may go the nation, says UNLV associate history professor Michael Green.

The marshmallow test is one of the most famous pieces of social-science research: Put a marshmallow in front of a child, tell her that she can have a second one if she can go 15 minutes without eating the first one, and then leave the room. Whether she’s patient enough to double her payout is supposedly indicative of a willpower that will pay dividends down the line, at school and eventually at work. Passing the test is, to many, a promising signal of future success.

In this 24/7, “always on” age, the prospect of doing nothing might sound unrealistic and unreasonable. But it’s never been more important.

Our lives are so full of constant alerts and digital intrusion that it may seem like our head is going to explode.