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    Ultimate locals

    Feb 23, 2021

    Feral cats are like Las Vegans -- invisible to tourists and newcomers, making a life beyond the lights

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    Hard Road

    Feb 10, 2021

    Car supremacy, toxic masculinity, and the troubled state of cycling in Las Vegas

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    The City Observed
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    A Glittering Anchor

    Jul 22, 2020

    Remembering Gipsy, where the queer community “could be themselves at night”

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    Friday Photo
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    Friday Photos: Still Lives

    Jul 17, 2020

    The good news: We got outside a little bit! The bad news: Photos suffused with a mood of quiet despair

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    Every Voice: Race, Protest, and Power in Las Vegas

    Jul 13, 2020

    Highlights from our July 9 roundtable on racial justice in Southern Nevada

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    Every Voice: Race, Protest, and Power in Las Vegas

    Jul 07, 2020

    Join us for a roundtable discussion on racial justice with policymakers, protest organizers, and professors

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    'We're Here, We're Strong'

    Aug 10, 2018

    With a timely donation, Shade Tree plans to expand its emergency services

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    'From a moment to a movement'

    Jan 23, 2018

    Women’s March Nevada Coordinator Deborah Harris reflects on the rally's growth and evolution

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    'They've done the hard part'

    Nov 21, 2017

    After losing federal funding, a legal aid program for undocumented children gets some help.

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    ‘We will come back from this’

    Oct 03, 2017

    Bittersweet political transcendence at a prayer vigil in Las Vegas

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    UNLV Medical School, Salvation Army, Las Vegas homeless corridor, water drive
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    First-year med students collect water for the homeless

    Aug 16, 2017

    A group of local medical students teamed up with the Salvation Army on a water drive for homeless people this weekend.

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    Hydroponic Herbs
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    Room for growth

    Feb 23, 2017

    How local is “locally grown” food? Not very — but these enterprising farmers are changing that.

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    CirqueDuSoleil's Brandon Pereyda participates in the 2015 Walk for Water (Cashman Photos)
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    Prime outdoors time is full of festivals

    Sep 29, 2016

    Did someone say 'Schedule it in autumn'? Yes, everyone.

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    Janice Wolf
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    Law & ardor

    Jun 24, 2016

    These fine local legal minds also have big hearts — for kids, immigrants and the underprivileged.

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    ‘Everybody wants it’

    May 23, 2016

    Shuttered for years but still loved by many, the Reed Whipple building keeps preservationists dreaming, even as its future remains in limbo 

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    Fighting words: a war panel not to miss

    May 04, 2016

    War destroys civilization; literature nourishes it.

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    Growing the next crop: Lattin Farms

    Mar 31, 2016

    Rick Lattin is a fifth-generation farmer whose family has been growing crops in the Lahontan Valley since 1909. But his particular operating model is simultaneously old-school and modern. 

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    The accidental activist: a mining fight in Silver City

    Mar 31, 2016

    Joe McCarthy of the Comstock Residents Assocation is fighting a proposed mining operation in his Silver City neighborhood.

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    Aldo Ayala
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    Teens on the Swing Shift

    Dec 22, 2015

    Lots of students work during high school. But what happens when they support an entire family? Some teens burn out — but many catch fire.

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    Downtown and the h-word

    Nov 05, 2015

    When I say “downtown resident,” who pops to mind? A bearded hipster, a fresh-faced Zapponista, a manic pixie dream barista? But maybe the iconic downtown denizen is a man huddled in a blanket in a dead storefront’s doorway. A homeless man ...

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    Jill Bernacki
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    Humanity at its finest

    Sep 24, 2015

    In a person’s darkest hour — when a loved one has died — the volunteers of the Trauma Intervention Program make sure the survivors don’t grieve alone.

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    Michele Cusac faces challenges raising a trans child
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    ‘I’m a real boy’

    Jun 25, 2015

    Raising a transgender child in Las Vegas is filled with surprises, challenges and trials — but few resources and little help 

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    The Death of Killing

    Mar 26, 2015

    Could a scrappy animal advocacy group’s contractual coup hasten a new era in animal control for Southern Nevada?

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    A Voice on the Streets

    Mar 01, 2015

    On the front lines with homeless advocate Merideth Spriggs. She's using new outreach technology, and dreams of a day where no lives on the streets of Las Vegas.

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    Free our fruit

    Jul 01, 2014

    Urban gleaner Rhonda Killough harvests the valley’s free-falling bounty to feed hungry bodies and souls

    By the time Rhonda Killough, founder of Project AngelFaces, arrives at Danny and Kathy Blood’s home in the Whitney neighborhood, a couple ladders are already set up under the humongous fig tree in their backyard. It’s 9 a.

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