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Failure to predict workload increases in cities where more veterans are coming forward for services was just one of the reasons the VA is facing a $2.6 billion shortfall…..Southern Nevada,…the number of veterans receiving care since the new North Las Vegas VA Medical Center opened in 2013 has jumped 18 percent.

Clark County officials want to limit the amount any one person can sell to 2½ ounces,...That would make it all but impossible for shops to have enough to open for business and would make required testing prohibitively expensive,.....

Drugs and dance music: It’s time to talk. "It’s a hot-button issue," ....at the EDMBiz conference held at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas last week. "We didn’t ever want to go near it because of the negative connotations..." Everybody knows it was happening, but nobody ever really has wanted to talk about it, certainly not many key figures within the electronic dance music community."

The challenge of retaining and recruiting enough teachers to staff Clark County School District classrooms is about to become even more difficult. The health plan that covers thousands of teachers and their families, which has been insolvent for years, is on the verge of collapse.

Police knew in 2006 that a Las Vegas doctor had been accused of sex crimes against a teenager. But that case was sealed; its outcome unknown. The Nevada Board of Medical Examiners…knew about the 2006 charges….now accused of having sex with a sedated girl while in his office and videotaping it….

It’s all fun and games until the itching and burning starts. Ever vigilant public health officials...worry that online dating apps and so-called hook-up websites raise the risk of spreading sexually transmitted diseases. "These websites and apps can be very problematic, especially when we see STDs on the rise here in Clark County...." said Dr. Joe Iser, chief medical officer for the Southern Nevada Health District.

Since Electric Daisy Carnival came to Las Vegas in 2011, there have been five drug-related fatalities. But it’s obviously remiss to deny the effect that drugs have had on the dance scene. …..conference presented by Insomniac, talking about drugs and the dance scene.

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A California lawsuit accuses two surgeons and four hospitals in Las Vegas of participating in a massive health care fraud scheme that involved implanting counterfeit spinal hardware into unsuspecting patients.

Indeed, the institutional, financial, sectional and political hurdles were many. But Sandoval understands what many have said for years: In order for Las Vegas to evolve, it needs better health care.