Divine intervention could be what is needed to keep Anahi Hernandez and dozens of other Nevada children and adults from an unending sound of silence, now that officials at University Medical Center, the last hospital in the state to offer cochlear implants, have said it is has become financially impossible to continue the procedures.
Nevada’s budget crunch is forcing state parks to look within for more money, with plans in the works for new stores, vending machines and more elaborate campsites that could replace funding that used to come from the state general fund.
Four dozen tenured UNLV professors officially quit their jobs last week. This was not a mass uprising against the university’s administration or some sort of statement of academic solidarity. It was simple economics paired with timing.
Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada held a senior prom … for seniors in its Senior Programs.
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