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Las Vegas Review Journal

Wynn Resorts is the first major Strip gaming company to publicly disclose how many of its employees have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

K.T.N.V. T.V. ABC 13

Paying more for less. That’s how some college students are feeling after seeing their tuition go up as local colleges and universities transition to online learning.

Yogonet

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), from its International Gaming Institute (IGI, for its acronym in English) published a study aimed at informing the decisions made in the states of the country when outlining their own betting policies sports.

The Hill

Recently, with the support of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and the White House, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced legislation designed to immunize business entities against liability when their operations transmit coronavirus to customers and employees. Although the legislation does create a federal cause of action, it simultaneously erects so many procedural hurdles that the victims of negligent and irresponsible operations will never be able to hold businesses to account for the harms their operations cause.

K.N.P.R. News

Southern Nevada, like much of the country, is struggling to come to terms with racial justice. The death of George Floyd was followed by dozens of protests in the streets of Las Vegas.

P.B.S.

Zitkála-Šá: Trailblazing American Indian Composer and Writer | Illuminating the stories of extraordinary American heroines from the early years of feminism, American Masters — Unladylike2020 is a multimedia series consisting of a one-hour special for broadcast (Unladylike2020: The Changemakers) and 26 digital short films featuring courageous, little-known and diverse female trailblazers from the turn of the 20th century. These women achieved many firsts, including earning an international pilot’s license, becoming a bank president, founding a hospital, fighting for the desegregation of public spaces, exploring the Arctic, opening a film studio, and singing opera at Carnegie Hall.

Double Scoop

In the U.S., about $300 million of CARES Act funding has gone to the arts. (Nevada’s share has been just over $800,000, and some arts businesses here have also qualified for other forms of aid, such as PPP funding.)

Language Magazine

COVID-19 has created an unprecedented challenge for America’s K-12 schools. As policymakers and practitioners struggle to respond, they are weighing significant uncertainty and trade-offs that arise because of education, health, and budgetary concerns. The consensus is that students learned less during the spring’s school building closures, and the learning losses were especially great for students with less access to devices, internet, quiet study areas, home and community resources and those with learning challenges.

Legal Sports Betting

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) International Gaming Institute (IGI) has released a report that looks at the effects of sports betting nationwide in order to see the impact of regulated sports betting moving forward.

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