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State House News Service

Gaming regulators made clear to Encore Boston Harbor and MGM Springfield on Thursday that they are not satisfied with the scant availability of live poker nearly a year after the two casinos were given the go-ahead to fully reopen.

K.L.A.S. T.V. 8 News Now

A mammoth discovered several years ago 30 miles northwest of Pahrump provides the first-known proof of Ice Age animals in the Amargosa Valley area.

K.S.N.V. T.V. News 3

With recent dire warnings of a recession from major banking institutions like Deutsche Bank and Bank of America, Las Vegas could feel the impact of a downturn on a larger scale than other metropolitan areas with more diversified economies.

The New York Times

“This reflects the country for the most part getting over the idea that gambling is the ultimate vice and that everyone here is named Three-Fingered Lenny and Ignats the Ice Pick.”

K.N.P.R. News

Soaring prices for gas, food, housing and construction supplies continue to hammer Nevadans.

Money Geek

The cost of health insurance in Nevada's private insurance exchange is calculated based on the coverage amount you choose. The state's private health insurance market is divided into three metal tiers, each having its own deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums. Silver plans, which cost an average of $531 per month for a 40-year-old, provide the best balance of cost and coverage. The “SelectHealth Value Silver 6500 - no deductible for office visits” plan from SelectHealth, Inc. offers the cheapest monthly premium in Nevada at $374 on average.

The New York Times

The New-York Historical Society looks back on the landmark gender equality legislation and how it transformed women’s access to education, sports and more.

World Wide Newses

The large development within the variety of girls in high school and school athletics — greater than three million in the present day, from 300,000 in 1972 — led to the rising professionalization of, and curiosity in, girls’s sports activities, and the objects within the exhibition exhibit that depth and development: Billie Jean King’s tennis racket, the 1984 Olympic gold medal winner Mary Lou Retton’s gymnastics slipper, Serena Williams’s tennis costume, jerseys from skilled girls’s basketball and soccer groups and a basketball Barbie doll.

Uken Report

With the gambling industry bringing in record-breaking profits last year despite the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Kentucky Derby soon to kick off, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2022’s Most Gambling-Addicted States.

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