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    Joe Neal: The Westside Slugger

    Jan 16, 2019

    Joe Neal was the first African American elected to Nevada’s Senate, a position he held for 32 years.

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    New Developers Have Plans For Historic Moulin Rouge Site

    May 30, 2018

    A company that’s under contract to buy the property where Las Vegas’ first racially integrated casino once stood wants to build a Moulin Rouge revival on the site.

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    Incoming Councilman Cedric Crear Focuses On Jobs

    Apr 13, 2018

    The City of Las Vegas held a special election March 27 to replace Ricki Barlow.

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    Las Vegas' Westside Began As Townsite On Other Side Of Tracks

    Feb 16, 2018

    The roots of the Las Vegas Westside — the historically black neighborhood near downtown — predate the city’s 1905 founding.

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    Moulin Rouge: Past, Present, Future

    Aug 19, 2016

    Sixty years after it closed, there are new offers to buy and restore the historic property. Is the timing finally right? 

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    Vegas Roots Garden Launches A Farmers Market Food Truck

    Jul 07, 2016

    Six years ago, Roz Brooks started a garden.

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    Former Westside Guest House Lands on the National Registry of Historic Places

    May 17, 2016

    In the 1950’s and 60s, an African-American woman from Texas named Genevieve Harrison ran a little guest house on the Westside of Las Vegas.

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    John Edmond: From Baccarat To Business

    Feb 24, 2016

    John Edmond was 21 years old when he first saw a game of baccarat. There was something about the high-class style, he said, that drew him in.

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    Green Light: Construction Begins On F-Street Tunnel

    May 06, 2013
    In 2008, the Nevada Department of Transportation and City of Las Vegas closed F Street at the I-15, blocking access to Symphony Park for residents of the Historic Westside. The neighborhood fought back against the closure, and the legislature passed a bill requiring the city to reopen the street.
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