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A looming ban on TikTok the social media app is creating a panic in the Las Vegas valley’s small business community.
As houses continue to burn in Los Angeles, officials have already started talking about rebuilding the city. “We’re going to rebuild this remarkable community and we’re going to come back,” California governor Gavin Newsom said in a call with President Biden on January 10. Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass added her own call for action. “We’re going to recover, and we’re going to rebuild and we’re going to rebuild better.”
Wildfires continue to devastate Southern California, with the Los Angeles Times reporting today that a “particularly dangerous situation” warning is once again in effect for areas of Los Angeles and Ventura counties. At least 25 people have died.
Casino management system provider Table Trac on Wednesday announced a multi-year financial commitment to the William F. Harrah College of Hospitality at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The contribution is part of Table Trac’s commitment to fostering opportunity and development for under-served Native American communities.
Our first dispensaries opened in Las Vegas 10 years ago — advocates for cannabis legalization had promised a tax revenue jackpot, earmarked for education, that would save our schools. But that windfall never really happened, and since 2021, cannabis revenue has actually dropped and flatlined. Today, co-host Dayvid Figler talks with Riana Durrett, director of the Cannabis Policy Institute at 51ԹϺ, and asks: What happened? And is 2025 the year cannabis finally makes money?
A looming ban on TikTok the social media app is creating a panic in the Las Vegas valley’s small business community. Congress passed the ban due to security concerns over the Chinese government’s app ownership. TikTok played a key part in the success of Guiliano Raso’s business, a food truck named 303 in the Cut.
Places in the west that are especially at risk to wildfire destruction are Urban Wildland Interfaces (UWI) — transition zones between unoccupied and urban land.
The wildfires that torched thousands of homes around Los Angeles will send refugees across the desert to Las Vegas, putting pressure on its tight housing market.
