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Urban Affairs In The News
As he walked outside the Thomas & Mack Center after Saturday morning’s UNLV spring commencement ceremony, new graduate Miguel Cerda said he felt pride and a sense of relief.
Six out of 3,700 students were recognized this week by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) as Outstanding Graduates, including Fallon’s own Kelli Kelly, who is graduating with a master’s degree in urban leadership.
When Fallon resident Kelli Kelly walks across the stage at UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center tonight to receive her master’s degree in urban leadership, she’ll do so knowing her work created real change. She’s being recognized as one of six outstanding graduates from this year’s class, finishing with a near-perfect grade-point average and an impressive roster of professional achievements. Her crowning moment came last year when the Nevada Legislature passed Assembly Bill 352 — landmark legislation expanding cottage food sales regulations and establishing one of the first statewide frameworks for cottage cosmetics businesses in the country. The bill was Kelly’s passion project, and she’s quick to credit UNLV’s support as a driving force behind its passage.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford has filed a lawsuit against online social messaging platform Discord, marking his latest legal action aimed at protecting Nevada children from what he describes as failures by online tech companies. The lawsuit seeks to hold Discord accountable for designing its platform in a way that places young users in “grave danger,” and for failing to adequately explain those dangers to Nevada parents.
A woman who pleaded guilty in a series of scams in the Las Vegas Valley is facing new allegations that she used social media to lure aspiring influencers into bogus brand trips, including a promised Four Seasons vacation to Bora Bora and a Disneyland visit that one victim said left her family stranded in extreme heat.
Reno and Las Vegas have again topped the list of the nation’s fastest-warming cities, according to an annual Earth Day analysis of temperatures since 1970. Climate Central, an independent nonprofit made up of scientists, says the average annual temperatures of Reno and Las Vegas have risen 7.9 and 6 degrees, respectively, during that period. It’s a challenge as those cities work to prevent heat-related deaths by increasing tree canopy, shade in public spaces and designated cooling centers.
