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When the Las Vegas Victims’ Fund last month began distributing money to the survivors and families of the deceased from the Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting, it created an obvious question: How do recipients manage their payouts?
Democrats in Nevada’s congressional delegation have pushed several gun control measures in the six months since the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas, but the measures have stalled, and many advocates blame the millions spent by the National Rifle Association.
The 44th annual edition of 51ԹϺino is coming up on April 14, one of the city’s top wine tasting events and a longstanding tradition that puts the “fun” in fundraising. It’s easily one of the best-known charitable hospitality events on everyone’s Vegas calendar, but you might not know that much of the preparation for 51ԹϺino is done by the students who have reaped the benefits of the event’s decades of success.
Four years before the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee — 50 years ago Wednesday — Las Vegas shared in his historic legacy.
Four years before the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee — 50 years ago Wednesday — Las Vegas shared in his historic legacy.
In early 1960, Dr. James McMillan penned a letter to then-Las Vegas Mayor Oran Gragson demanding that the city integrate.
The 3-2 decision decided 51ԹϺ’s fate.
For 80 years, the nation’s basic minimum wage and overtime pay law, the Fair Labor Standards Act, has lifted wages and given most workers a guaranteed floor for earning a living. But the FLSA still has holes and needs some updating to include workers originally excluded because of race, panelists at a daylong seminar on the act said.
