Es nuestro turno ahora. Translation:“It’s our turn now.” Say gracias to UNLV.

Scores of Las Vegas Valley residents are expected to take in the sights and sounds of the 36th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade on Monday.

The four boys were ready for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade. One tipped his blue plastic hat and grasped a banner bearing a picture of the civil rights leader and peace activist.

The crosses and the candles and the flowers, the rosaries and the holy cards and the T-shirts and all of the other items left along Las Vegas Boulevard after the Oct. 1 shooting are personal, solitary expressions of sadness, grief and loss for those who lost their lives or were injured.

It's been three years now since the Three Kids Mine Remediation and Reclamation Act was passed by congress and signed by the President, but so far nothing has been done to actually clean up around a thousand acres of contaminated desert in the northeast corner of Henderson.

Imagine Fremont Street free of profane language. Or a downtown Las Vegas landscape where cattle, horses, burros, sheep and goats run free.

UNLV has been receiving a lot of attention the past few weeks, celebrating six decades of scholarship. On a slightly smaller scale, the university library's "Special Collections Department" is noting its Golden Anniversary

The “Valentine’s Day Massacre” nearly cut the Las Vegas Valley’s explosive growth off at the knees 26 years ago, when fewer than 1 million people called the region home. Jurisdictions had been battling one another for growth-sustaining allocations to Colorado River water for years, and the Las Vegas Valley Water District took drastic action Feb. 14, 1991, upon realizing it couldn’t meet any more water commitments: It stopped promising service to new developments. Henderson soon followed suit.

Nothing makes you feel smarter than a bookstore. Both The Writer’s Block and Amber Unicorn Books can be counted on to offer up many treasures for perusal. Bonus: Once you take them home and read them, you actually are smarter! –Lissa Townsend Rodgers, editor-at-large

During the question-and-answer session at the end of “A Woman’s Place is …” a man referred to the four female panelists collectively as “you guys,” then quickly realized his mistake.

Las Vegas and Clark County have exploded in the last few decades. The growth has been sometimes painful and sometimes exhilarating. And for much of our history, women have played a key role in building and planning for Southern Nevada. Think Virginia Valentine, Pat Mulroy, Thalia Dondero. Think Margi Grein, Carol Vallardo and Ann O'Connell.

About 25 people gathered Saturday afternoon at the West Las Vegas Library to remember the history of slavery in America and commemorate the day in 1865 when Texas slaves first learned that they were free. The gathering was one of five events being held by the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation to honor Juneteenth, an observance of that day — June 19, 1865 — that came more than two years after President Abe Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation.