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May 6, 2024

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  • Las Vegas police: Homeless man sleeping in tent hit by car, critically injured
    May 6, 2024
    By Las Vegas Sun Staff
    A homeless man was critically injured when a car ran off the road and struck the tent where he was sleeping, according to Metro Police. The incident was reported about 1:55 a.m. Sunday at ...
  • Police: Las Vegas man hit by SUV, critically injured after darting into street
    May 6, 2024
    By Las Vegas Sun Staff
    A pedestrian was critically injured when he was hit by an SUV while running across a street, according to Metro Police. The incident happened about 8:40 p.m. Sunday on ...
  • Keith Urban performs during the 2023 CMA Fest on Friday, June 9, 2023, at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tenn.
    Keith Urban to play 10 shows in Las Vegas in October, February
    May 6, 2024
    By Ray Brewer
    Four-time Grammy winner Keith Urban will play 10 shows on the Strip starting in early October at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas, the resort announced this morning. “Keith Urban’s HIGH in Vegas” will include ...
  • The Notes: Philanthropy, May 6, 2024
    May 6, 2024
    By VEGAS INC Staff
    In the Notes: Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican, Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada, Supreme Court of Nevada Law Library, Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority and more ...
  • Lovely Mempin, co-owner and creative director of Evergreen Coffee, poses for a photo at the shop’s Henderson location Friday, April 26, 2024.
    Optimism low but resiliency high among entrepreneurs in Las Vegas
    May 6, 2024
    By Katie Ann McCarver
    Evergreen Coffee opened its doors in Henderson almost two years ago, hoping to restore some of the community and neighborhood connections that had been lost during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • ‘Big glass’ dominance hangs on the fate of powerful new telescopes
    May 6, 2024
    By Eric Isaacs and Thomas Rosenbaum
    More than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena, Calif., institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The Mount Wilson Observatory changed ...
  • Time to take solopreneurs seriously
    May 6, 2024
    By Jennifer Oliver O’Connell
    According to the Small Business Association Office of Advocacy, 81% of small businesses are solopreneurs, and out of the 33 million U.S. small businesses, 22% are owned by women. As women, we recognize that our skill sets and ...
  • Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning speaks during a press conference at Red Rock National Conservation Area Wednesday, March 20, 2024.
    BLM rule ‘encouraging’ to some groups, others fear it may be ‘window dressing’
    May 6, 2024
    By Rhiannon Saegert
    The Bureau of Land Management has enacted a new rule allowing conservation groups and other entities to lease and rehabilitate damaged public land. The rule puts conservation uses on par with commercial uses such as ...
  • Wild horses stand behind a fence at the Bureau of Land Management's holding facility in Palomino Valley, Nev. June 5, 2013. Wild horses throughout Nevada are being rounded up by federal land managers who say they're preserving land and protecting herds while water and food sources become scarce. But some wild horse advocates want to do away with roundups, saying they waste resources and harm the horses.
    Horses’ deaths in BLM custody spark renewed outrage over roundups
    May 6, 2024
    By Hillary Davis
    Nearly 1 in 20 wild horses sent to a federally contracted holding facility in Fallon after being rounded up from Bureau of Land Management rangelands died last year, according to agency data.
  • US power grid being sabotaged by EPA
    May 6, 2024
    By Rich Nolan
    On April 25, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched a blitz of regulations targeting the nation’s fossil-fuel power plants. In the center of the EPA’s crosshairs is America’s coal fleet, which remains a workhorse source of ...
  • Tiny fish are a big waste of money
    May 6, 2024
    By Pat Russell, Henderson
    The May 1 story “Devils Hole pupfish population reaches a 25-year high in census,” regarding the sole habitat for this tiny fish, averaging less than 1 inch in length, was enlightening. Should every American be proud of the results of spending millions of taxpayer dollars since ...
  • Beware demands of total loyalty
    May 6, 2024
    By Charles Parrish, Las Vegas
    Donald Trump staged a televised event, after his swearing-in, where he asked each Cabinet member if they would be loyal to him. FBI Director James Comey answered, “I will be loyal to the Constitution.” He was fired ...
  • Corruption of the court shows
    May 6, 2024
    By Richard Strickland, Las Vegas
    I have a question for each of the nine justices of the Supreme Court: Is this delay of opinion as to the rule of law why you went to law school, why you became judges and why you took up the mantle of justice of the Supreme Court? ...
  • Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Adin Hill eyes the puck on a scoring shot by Dallas Stars center Radek Faksa during the third period in Game 7 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup first-round playoff series, Sunday, May 5, 2024, in Dallas.
    Golden Knights season ends against Dallas Stars in Game 7
    May 5, 2024
    By Jack Williams
    The Golden Knights' season ended Sunday with a 2-1 loss at the Dallas Stars in Game 7 of their first round playoff series. Minutes after the defeat, a social media post ...
  • Joerg Arnu, a 62-year-old Rachel resident and a love for military aviation, runs the town’s tourism website and Dreamland Resort, a hub for information related to Area 51, explains some of the technology believed to be used behind the gates of Area 51 in Rachel, Nevada on Thursday, April 25, 2024.
    Close encounters of a different kind: This German immigrant is Rachel’s Area 51 aficionado
    May 5, 2024
    By Grace Da Rocha
    Joerg Arnu, 62, a German-born retired computer programmer, has a love for military aviation, the mystery of Area 51 and the desert — making Rachel, a town of only 50 people, the perfect place for him. For the past 25 years, Arnu has ran ...
  • Pro-Palestinian supporters continue their encampment protest on Vanderbilt University campus May 3, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn.
    President Biden clear: Campus protests are not peaceful
    May 5, 2024
    By Brian Greenspun
    We have witnessed in the past few weeks some students as well as many others who have no business on campus, under the guise of free speech, storm university buildings, camp out on university quads, prevent free passage of other students to their classrooms, libraries and ...
  • Trump has poisoned Christian evangelicals
    May 5, 2024
    By Nicole Russell
    Many evangelical Christians have convinced themselves that voting for Donald Trump is the best way to win over the culture war, get prayer back in schools and restore the United States to its theocratic roots. This is prominent in evangelical strains across ...
  • Election workers hold ballots during a recount of mail-in ballots at the Clark County Election Department, Thursday, June 30, 2022, in North Las Vegas.
    All Nevadans have a role to play in conducting free, fair, safe elections
    May 5, 2024
    We always encourage Nevadans to hold their elected officials accountable by learning about the issues confronting us, paying attention to the words and actions of our elected officials and candidates, and finally voting in elections, whether in person or by mail ...
  • Animals don’t exist to amuse us
    May 5, 2024
    By Philip Tripp, Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada
    The Las Vegas Strip is an entirely inappropriate environment for animals of any species. Trying to spin these cruel displays as anything other than money-grabbing exploitation is absurd ...
  • One way to make college costs realistic again
    May 5, 2024
    By LZ Granderson
    The future of colleges depends on the future of labor. A 2023 study of nearly 6,000 human resources professionals and leaders in corporate America found only 22% required applicants to have a college degree. The labor shortage is one aspect of the conversation. The shift in ...
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