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Tourists won’t want to come to a radioactive Las Vegas
Nevada must reject any offer Congress makes to open Yucca Mountain in exchange for enhanced federal funding. The reason is simple: Any deal is not worth the risk.
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Robert E. Lang
Professor and Lincy Chair of Urban Affairs, Greenspun College of Urban Affairs
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Palm Springs celebrates its past, and tourists arrive in droves
About 100 miles east of Los Angeles, Palm Springs, with its cloudless skies, bright sunshine and warm temperatures, was the desert playground of golden-era Hollywood.
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Robert E. Lang
Professor and Lincy Chair of Urban Affairs, Greenspun College of Urban Affairs
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State GOP strategy makes them sound like Democrats
Republicans in control of the Nevada Senate are keeping Democrats on their toes, slipping ideas historically pushed by the Democratic Party into bills backed by the GOP.
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David Damore
Executive Director, The Lincy Institute and Brookings Mountain West
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From the ground up: UNLV medical school taking shape
Students won’t arrive for another two years, but Barbara Atkinson, planning dean for the UNLV School of Medicine, has been busy crafting the school’s curriculum, recruiting and hiring faculty and scouring the state for donors.
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Barbara Atkinson
Founding Dean, UNLV School of Medicine
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Harry Reid's Senate retirement sets off big scramble in Nevada politics
In a relatively small state, Harry Reid loomed terrifically large, so his decision to exit the U.S. Senate after 2016 opens a massive void that left members of both parties scrambling.
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Michael Green
Professor and Chair, History
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Expansions to Nevada’s self-defense law are unnecessary and dangerous
The law values human life by punishing people who take it. Against this landscape, self-defense — or the law of justifiable homicide — carves out a narrow exception.
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Addie Rolnick
Professor of Law
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Dawn of man: Ethiopian jawbone fossil pushes back human origins
A 2.8-million-year-old jawbone fossil with five intact teeth unearthed in an Ethiopian desert is pushing back the dawn of humankind by about half a million years.
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Brian Villmoare
Associate Professor, Anthropology
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First human? The jawbone that has made us question where we’re from
The discovery of the oldest remains of human ancestors could prove that we evolved from different species
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Brian Villmoare
Associate Professor, Anthropology