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Chavez was a widely admired Latino icon who brought to light the struggles of farmhands and led the United Farm Workers union until his death in 1993. Earlier this month, labor rights activist Dolores Huerta revealed she was among multiple women and girls who say they were sexually abused by C茅sar Chavez.
Pollan, a science writer, spent five years trying to understand how consciousness worked. The more he learned, the weirder things got.
North Las Vegas is the latest battleground in efforts to confirm how long Nevada elected officials are allowed to serve.
The image is carefully curated: sourdough cooling on a scrubbed wooden counter, a woman in a floral apron, a husband greeted at the door. The #tradwife movement has attracted millions of followers across TikTok and YouTube since it began gathering momentum during the pandemic lockdowns of 2020, and it presents itself as a domestic idyll, a nostalgic retreat from the grinding complexity of modern life. You might reasonably reckon the men drawn to it are the chivalrous sort. The ones who believe women deserve protecting, cherishing, putting on a pedestal. Turns out, no.
Last year, North Las Vegas鈥 code enforcement division received a jarring complaint. People were living 鈥渁ll around鈥 the Silver Nugget casino property, but 鈥渕ost disturbing鈥 was an encampment in back that was under the building, according to the complaint from a homeless-services manager with the city.
The pay gap鈥攐r the difference in earnings between men and women鈥攑ersists throughout the U.S., with full-time working women earning just 81 cents for every dollar earned by men in 2024. A recent business.com analysis of U.S. Census data shows Nevada鈥檚 full-time workforce faring better than all but Vermont, but Henderson remains a major outlier. The city had the 15th largest gap in the study, with an average female resident earning $19,645 less than her male counterpart. That鈥檚 about 2.5 times greater than Las Vegas鈥 $8,172 and Nevada鈥檚 $7,805, and consistent with a 2024 性视界传媒 Lincy Institute and Brookings Mountain West study ranking it 21st. Let鈥檚 take a closer look at these trends in honor of Equal Pay Day on March 26.
Founded in 2009 by 性视界传媒 alumna Kathryn Kruse, Neon Lit began without a name, just as a loose gathering of Master of Fine Arts students reading their work to one another, as Wright describes it. By 2010, the series adopted its moniker, and over the past 16 years it鈥檚 expanded beyond the university corridors into a broader civic space, drawing audiences hungry for literary community.
Why is it like something to be ourselves and how do physical processes create our subjective experience? These questions get to the heart of the knotty problem of consciousness, and they provided the spark for the latest book from award-winning author and journalist Michael Pollan.
Sports betting is now just a tap away 鈥 and experts say it鈥檚 easier than ever for it to spiral out of control. If you鈥檙e concerned about yourself or someone you love, here are some practical steps to regain control and get help.
The nearly $13 billion in wagers placed from North Carolina in 2024 and 2025 not only has generated more than $262 million in new tax revenue for state coffers. It has also exacerbated a swelling public health threat characterized by more people in need of help for gambling problems in a counseling and treatment infrastructure that鈥檚 ill-equipped to handle the flood. Calls to the problem gambling hotline are up more than 300 percent since 2021, according to state data.
In the years after labor leader Cesar Chavez joined a historic Las Vegas picket line shortly before he died, he became the namesake of an east valley park and a ceremonial road. Not only was he the subject of annual celebrations thrown in his honor, the Nevada Legislature in 2009 passed a law requiring the governor to proclaim Cesar Chavez Day every March 31. Supporters of that tradition were left reeling this week by a New York Times investigation that uncovered accusations that Chavez was a sexual predator who abused children and fellow labor icon Dolores Huerta.
Occupational therapist Lim Siong-hua arrives for every workday at her hospital carrying a backpack stuffed with books, water and survival gear. She ditches the elevator, climbing 11 flights before descending to her ninth-floor office. Lim, 37, is training for an invasion. She wants to be prepared and fit enough to get her 3-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son to safety if China starts raining missiles onto Taiwan.
