The truth is, Las Vegas has always been more about spectacle than sport. I know. I’m from the place that once allowed casino maverick Bob Stupak to hire a man for $1 million to jump off the top of his Vegas World hotel.

Juneteenth serves as a powerful reminder that when justice is delayed, it is effectively denied. It encourages us to stay vigilant and committed to ensuring that our constitutional rights and freedoms are not just proclaimed but actively fulfilled and embraced.

It wasn’t enough to want to do something, though. Lawmakers also needed to find and attract entrepreneurs willing to provide card processing services at lower costs to Nevada’s businesses.

With hundreds of exhibits and assistants on their computers, as the hearing commenced May 22 it was hard not to ponder all the billable hours piling up. The scene made it harder to imagine this dispute is over something as simple as a right-of-way issue on undeveloped land.

Like a nation printing money without restraint, our political system has made so many withdrawals from the bank of moral indignation that inflation has rendered each new expression nearly worthless. 

Such an inhumane obsession over the raw number of arrests — rather than a calculated push to deport “the worst of the worst” — is the sort of directive one would expect from Joseph Stalin’s NKVD during the Great Purge rather than American law enforcement agencies.

Households that are stably housed now will lose critical assistance, and we will see a terrible ripple effect of increased homelessness and significant challenges that will arise in our schools and hospitals. 

That’s why the accidental disclosure and the meeting itself ought to be remembered as an inflection point for the industry before the sting of the candor fades and is replaced by a new shiny object.

Go visit some ghost town along a lonely Nevada roadway, explore the nearly infinite expanse of mountain ranges winding their way through our backyard or simply step out under the neon lights and enjoy the entertainment options that have made our state famous. 

If public education is weakened or defunded, and private institutions are empowered, it becomes easier for certain ideological agendas to shape what students learn, such as downplaying systemic racism, teaching creationism, or pushing nationalist interpretations of U.S. history.

It’s no wonder people in Southern Nevada keep looking for some way to diversify their economy. They know what their economy looks like without gaming and hospitality — it looks like a 34 percent unemployment rate.

Fiore’s controversies have been buried deep by the latest slate of criminals to receive pardons or sentence commutations from Trump. It’s another in a continuing series of efforts to tar the rule of law, sow distrust for the justice system and diminish the importance of political corruption prosecution.

Sexual health education equips young people with the knowledge they need to make informed, healthy decisions. Research consistently shows that sexual health education reduces rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.

Of course, fuzzy math is nothing new to the world of lobbying — nor is it a foreign concept for Hollywood. Movie studios have long engaged in what one judge described as “unconscionable” accounting methods to hide profits ... "

Silver State federal grant funds were intended to pay salaries and benefits for the health care providers they employed. Instead, authorities say, ... the funds were funneled through multiple limited liability corporations and later used to purchase multiple pieces of real estate.

Years of research later, I came to understand what no one had ever told us: Our health and the health of our families was being ravaged by the toxic legacy of nuclear weapons testing and related activities across the Nevada Test and Training Range. 

Combing through the available information suggests that more than $600 million in tax credits have been authorized since 2017. Still, the public cannot be certain what funds are "spent" and what funds are an ongoing liability.

The sort of personal profit she apparently sought to grow while “serving” the public represents a lamentably common mindset among our political class — even if most politicians have the common decency to avoid actual criminal activity. 

If we actually want community engagement in our cities to improve, we need to acknowledge that the primary way most residents hold their cities accountable is through the ballot box, not through public comment. 

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