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Legislative Process in the Second House and Action by the Governor
Following the passage of a measure in the Nevada legislature house of origin, it is transmitted to the second house. If the second house passes a bill in identical form as passed in the first house, it is sent to the Nevada governor. Resolutions that are passed without change are sent to the... more
Arts for All Nevada
Arts for All Nevada (formerly VSA arts of Nevada) was founded in 1986 to provide arts programming to all Nevadans, especially the 15 percent of the population with some kind of disability. The organization provides art classes and workshops for children and adults, produces festivals, places... more
Legislative Process in the House of Origin
The Nevada legislature, like legislative bodies throughout the nation, is the branch of government that drafts bills and resolutions. In Nevada, these may originate in the senate or the assembly, the two houses of the state legislature. Following the preparation by legislative staff of a requested... more
Legislative Branch of Nevada
Article 4 of the Constitution of the State of Nevada vests Nevada's legislative authority "in a Senate and Assembly, which shall be designated 'The Legislature of the State of Nevada,' and the sessions of such Legislature shall be held at the seat of government of the State."... more
W.H.C. Stephenson
Places: Virginia City, Storey County, Northern Nevada
Dr. W. H. C. Stephenson (1825–18??) was northern Nevada's most prominent African-American citizen in the nineteenth century. One of Virginia City's few African-American professionals, Stephenson served as the unofficial spokesperson for northern Nevada's African-American community... more
Leavitt House, Bunkerville, Clark County
Places: Clark County, Southern Nevada
Thomas Dudley Leavitt and twenty-two other Latter-day Saints established the utopian community of Bunkerville in 1877 under the leadership of Bishop Edward Bunker. Founded on the principles of the "United Order," their economic system relied on cooperative labor and communal property... more
Wabuska Hot Springs
Places: Lyon County, Northern Nevada
The Wabuska geothermal area is located at the margin of Mason Valley, in Lyon County, Nevada, where both the valley margin and the thermal springs coincide with a northeast-trending zone of faults referred to as the Wabuska lineament. Hot springs, about 1.6 km north of Wabuska, range in temperature... more
Leaving Las Vegas
Places: Clark County, Las Vegas, Southern Nevada
Leaving Las Vegas (1995) is a much-honored film about the brief bonding of a prostitute and a suicidal alcoholic planning to leave Las Vegas—and life—by drinking himself to death.Nicolas Cage won a Best Actor Oscar playing Ben, a compulsive drinker who needs a city that represents his... more
Lear Theatre
Places: Reno, Washoe County, Northern Nevada
The Lear Theater occupies the historic First Church of Christ, Scientist, in the Truckee River Arts District. In 2011, the building was in the process of renovation into a mid-size space for theater, music, and dance performances. The 1939 church building was purchased in 1998 by the Theater... more
Waddie Mitchell
Places: Elko, Elko County, Northern Nevada
Waddie Mitchell has become an icon of Nevada, of buckaroo culture (cowboys of the Great Basin), and of cowboy poetry. Born in 1950 on a ranch in Elko County, he grew up to be a working cowboy. After the popularity of the first Cowboy Poetry Gathering in 1985—of which he was one of the... more
LDS Moapa Stake Office Building/Virmoa Maternity Hospital, Overton, Clark County
Places: Clark County, Southern Nevada
Mormon settlers built the LDS Moapa Stake Office Building/Virmoa Maternity Hospital as a concrete symbol of the Church's principals of community management. An administrative unit, called a "stake," oversees several geographically related groups of churches, called "wards."... more
Laura Ethel Mills
Places: Churchill County, Northern Nevada
Educator Laura Ethel Mills left a lasting impression on those she taught, either in the classroom or on field trips to the deserts that she loved so much. An accomplished photographer and recognized authority in the field of natural history, Mills created permanent images of the diversity of life... more
Wadsworth
Places: Washoe County, Northern Nevada
The Wadsworth area was important for settlers as early as 1841, but was not formally established until the railroad arrived. Westbound immigrants, having crossed the Forty-Mile Desert to the east, found the area on the big bend of the Truckee River a welcome place to rest and water livestock.... more
Last Frontier Hotel
Places: Clark County, Las Vegas, Southern Nevada
The Last Frontier Hotel is best known as the second resort built on the fledgling Las Vegas Strip, located along historic Highway 91. Built several miles south of downtown Las Vegas, the Last Frontier was completed in 1942, a year after the debut of its neighbor, the El Rancho Vegas.Like the El... more
Las Vegas' Block 16
Places: Clark County, Las Vegas, Southern Nevada
On May 15, 1905, the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake City Railroad auctioned off commercial and residential lots in the Clark Las Vegas Townsite, now the core of downtown Las Vegas. As part of its plan for the fledgling town, the railroad set aside two blocks in the northern section, Block... more
Walter A. Van Voorhis
Places: Churchill County, Fallon, Northern Nevada
Walter A. Van Voorhis came to the Fallon Paiute Reservation as government agent in January 1909, from Taholah, Washington, where he had served in that capacity on the Quinault Reservation. He was accompanied by his wife, Lillie, baby son Bruce, his mother-in-law Alice Simson, and newest arrival... more
Las Vegas Upscale Dining
Places: Clark County, Las Vegas, Southern Nevada
The Las Vegas megaresort boom that began in the 1990s and continues today has benefited from and encouraged the arrival of celebrity chefs operating fine-dining eateries. Each new resort competes for brand-name chefs to move west and set up shop in hotel-casinos to create fine dining experiences... more
Las Vegas Sun
Places: Clark County, Las Vegas, Southern Nevada
The Las Vegas Sun is its city's second longest published newspaper, with a legendary past as a muckraker and crusader. It debuted on May 3, 1950, as the Las Vegas Free Press, a thrice-weekly newspaper founded by the International Typographical Union, which consisted of typesetters locked out of... more
Walter Baring
Places: Northern Nevada, Southern Nevada
Born in Goldfield, Nevada on September 9, 1911, Walter Baring Jr. came by politics naturally. During Goldfield's heyday, his father was an Esmeralda County commissioner and an assemblyman. The family later moved to Reno, where the elder Walter owned a furniture store.The younger Walter... more
Las Vegas Styled Production Shows
Places: Clark County, Las Vegas, Southern Nevada
The modern-day Las Vegas production show originated with the tried-but-true formula of women dancing in provocative costumes, magicians and jugglers dazzling audiences with seemingly impossible feats, plus singers belting out popular tunes. Nevada-based producers combined these elements with over-... more
Las Vegas Strip: The First Boom
Places: Clark County, Las Vegas, Southern Nevada
Since the late 1980s, the Las Vegas Strip has been in a manic building boom, creating some of the world's largest hotels and giving southern Nevada more than 130,000 hotel rooms. The ongoing boom is the latest in a series of transformations that began in the 1940s and 1950s. The concrete... more
Las Vegas Showgirls
Places: Clark County, Las Vegas, Southern Nevada
Showgirls were tall, statuesque figures featured prominently in casino showroom productions. They had a role distinct from that of a dancer, and they were sometimes referred to as mannequins because they appeared partially nude and did not dance.The idealized image may be traced back to Florenz... more
Las Vegas Shopping
Places: Clark County, Las Vegas, Southern Nevada
A shot glass with the "Welcome to Las Vegas" logo. Maybe a cheap T-shirt or a deck of used playing cards. Or for those favoring the terminally tacky, how about a famed dice clock? Those were the types of gifts tourists hauled home for decades. Or if purchasing something for themselves,... more
Las Vegas Review Journal
Places: Clark County, Las Vegas, Southern Nevada
The Las Vegas Review-Journal is Nevada's largest newspaper and has been the flagship of two media empires. It began publishing as the Clark County Review on September 18, 1909. Founder Charles "Corky" Corkhill, then serving as Clark County's first sheriff, had edited the Las Vegas... more
Walter Sully Long
Places: Eureka, Eureka County, Reno, Washoe County, Northern Nevada
Walter Sully Long (1842-1907) arrived in Eureka, Nevada in October of 1878, and found employment as a civil engineer in the mining districts of central Nevada. In addition to work as a surveyor, and, in his spare time, Long filled several postcard-sized sketchbooks with watercolors that featured... more