Las Vegas calls itself the entertainment capital of the world. And it has a long history of great entertainment, no question. Reno and Lake Tahoe hotel-casinos long have boasted great performers, too. But many Nevadans are surprised when they hear the first city to feature true entertainment headliners in a showroom was … Elko.

Nevada’s six votes are just a small piece in the Electoral College pie, but you wouldn’t know that by the attention being paid to the Silver State by the opposing presidential campaigns in the final weeks of the election.

With early voting finished and tallied, registered Democrats in Nevada have taken a 46,000-vote lead over Republican voters heading into Election Day.

The US Supreme Court on Saturday reinstated an Arizona law that makes it a felony to collect early ballots, dealing a blow to Democratic get out the vote efforts just days before the presidential election.

Despite last-minute good news from the FBI that saw Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s name cleared over a new batch of her emails linked to her private email server, the gridlock in US politics exposed during the presidential campaign trail has already left deep dissatisfaction among the electorate, according to polls and voters.

In a cramped office strewn with hand-written signs setting door-knocking goals and tracking early votes, Artie Blanco reminded a roomful of Californians why they had shown up early in Nevada on the final Saturday before the election. "Nevada is what’s going to make the difference,” said Blanco, who works for a labor-backed advocacy organization called For Our Future. “This is where the wall will be to keep Trump out of the White House.”

As a historian of women and clothing, I see Clinton’s pantsuit – and those who criticize it – as the latest chapter in a long history of people telling women what they can and can’t wear.

Why does the pantsuit rankle so many Americans?