Las Vegas Sun

May 14, 2024

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  • Invest in clinicians to solve mental health care crisis
    The need for mental healthcare services in Nevada has never been greater than it is now. This trend is reflected across the nation, but a detrimental lack of access to services puts Nevada into a particularly difficult position.
  • A porn star earns her place in US history
    Last week, after Stormy Daniels spent nearly eight hours over two days testifying in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York, the time seemed right to crack open her memoir, “Full Disclosure.”
  • Fears about ‘Ozempic babies’ show lack in women’s health care
    The historic failure of medical research to acknowledge that women’s bodies differ from men’s has a new catchphrase: Ozempic babies. According to recent reports, all of them anecdotal and many of them on TikTok, off-label use of diabetes drugs including ...
  • College protests recall ’70s arrests at Stanford
    I was almost arrested. OK, that’s a stretch, I confess. I was in the room, inside the Old Union at Stanford University on the afternoon of May 9, 1977.
  • Show gratitude for Mother’s Day with your presence as much as your presents
    Show gratitude for Mother’s Day with your presence as much as your presents
    A convergence of cultural holidays has given rise to a full Mother’s Day weekend this year, rather than just a single Mother’s Day. The United States celebrates Mother’s Day on the second Sunday of May ...
  • Las Vegas philanthropist Joyce Mack is interviewed in her home Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021.
    Mother’s Day tradition celebrates Las Vegas pioneer
    Many years ago the Thomas, Mack and Greenspun families joined together for a Mother’s Day celebration. Peggy and Parry Thomas, Joyce and Jerry Mack and Barbara and Hank Greenspun— as was their practice in those earlier days— started it all thinking that one day ...
  • Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen attends Brightline West's groundbreaking ceremony Monday, April 22, 2024.
    Sen. Rosen: Police officers deserve our support
    For a state that is home to world-class destinations and that welcomes visitors from around the globe, the members of Nevada’s law enforcement community are critical. These ...
  • Trump’s ‘welfare’ dog whistle is nonsense, just like Reagan’s was
    Donald Trump took his dog whistle down to Florida this month, reportedly telling a room full of donors: “When you are Democrat, you start off essentially at 40% because you have civil service, you have the unions and you have welfare.” He then drove ...
  • When criminal sentences end, so should the punishment
    Melissa Brown hit bottom in her youth. Desperate for drug money, she shoplifted in 1998 and stole a pocketbook from a grocery cart in 2001. Then, she got sober, served her time in prison, and turned her life around ...
  • Taylor Swift wears a Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce puffer jacket, designed by Kristin Juszczyk, as she arrives before an NFL wild-card playoff football game between the Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo.
    The trials of celebrity love, from Taylor-Burton to Swift-Kelce
    I wouldn’t know Taylor Swift if she sat beside me on an airplane, which is unlikely because she travels by private jet ...
  • A senator gives up his political soul for Donald Trump
    Tim Scott is the incredible shrinking man. The more time he spends in Donald Trump’s orbit and at the former president’s feet, the smaller the once-seemingly principled junior senator from ...
  • How many ways can a political memoir backfire?
    Not to beat a dead, ah, horse, but how can we ignore the spectacle that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has made of herself during her publicity tour for her just-published memoir, “No Going Back?” ...
  • Women’s freedoms, opportunities in jeopardy with Donald Trump
    Last week, we marked the two-year anniversary of the leak of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and ripped away a woman’s right to choose. Since then, women have been taken back in time as ...
  • Bird flu outbreak has more questions than answers
    As the magnitude of the bird flu outbreak in cattle becomes clearer, so does the need to quickly get a firmer grip on some basic facts. Namely, how far this H5N1 virus has spread ...
  • Life has delivered some hard lessons for the Class of 2024
    The college Class of 2024 has had a tough run. As high school seniors, they saw spring proms and graduation ceremonies disrupted by a global pandemic ...
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