You probably have read commenter Tmstffrd's post on the UNLV controversy, as well as maybe heard of something brewing in Southern Nevada thanks to Nevada politics and the Huffington Post about the Hey Reb! mascot.

The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to relocate a state-of-the-art radiation monitoring laboratory from Las Vegas to Alabama, a move that has drawn protests from nuclear safety activists and officials from Nevada and California.

The version of Las Vegas that pop culture broadcasts to the world is, for the most part, confined to a narrow slice of the city, a couple of miles of Las Vegas Boulevard known as the Strip. Sometimes the view stretches to include downtown Las Vegas, home to the oldest casinos. This doesn’t reflect what it’s like to live here – we have schools, and grocery stores, and jobs, and we don’t all live in hotels. Both versions of the city are real and inseparable. The reality supports the image, and vice versa.

In a June 22 story about efforts to retrain police to reduce the number of shootings by officers, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of a trainer quoted. The correct name is Pete Kruse, not Pete Crews. A corrected version of the story is below. ___ By 2 a.m., nearly five hours had ticked by since Stanley Gibson’s last call.

The researchers studied about 100 immigration cases and found evidence of the long-suspected chivalry theory, in which male judges view female litigants as ‘damsels in distress who need their protection’ and are more generous with them as a result, whereas female judges do not.

The backlash over the Confederate flag in the wake of the shooting last week that took the lives of nine members of a Charleston, S.C., church has people examining the use of other symbols, perceived or otherwise, of the Old South and its slavery connotations.

The Confederate flag controversy in South Carolina reached Nevada Tuesday courtesy of Senior Senator from Nevadad Harry Reid.

Sen. Harry Reid says Nevada higher education officials should look at changing the Confederate-themed mascot at UNLV.

No, Sen. Harry Reid is not calling on UNLV to change the name of the Runnin’ Rebels or get rid of Hey Reb! because they could be construed as a reference to the Confederacy.