Experts In The News
With cooler temperatures here, that means mosquito season is thankfully coming to an end. Following up on a story I covered on Monday when I stopped at 51ԹϺ to talk to experts about how bad this past mosquito season was, on Tuesday I wanted to find out what can be done to help fight the problem.
So far this year, pedestrian deaths have far exceeded last year’s total, which was the worst on record. Tuesday morning, officers from across the valley joined forces to make a statement before Halloween to remind drivers to share the road. However, even an officer dressed in a neon yellow inflatable costume could not slow down most of the drivers.
California gaming tribes have been given an unprecedented opportunity to litigate against their main rivals, the state’s commercial card rooms. There’s a chance that many of the card rooms’ gaming activities, or even the establishments themselves, might become a thing of the past in California. The tribes imagine that their own casinos would receive any business lost by the card rooms, but they aren’t the only ones competing with the card rooms.
When you daydream about your retirement, you may be picturing traveling, volunteering and spending time with grandkids. One thing that’s likely absent from the dream? Struggling to move around your own home.
As Nevada continues through the second week of early voting, one out of three of the state's registered voters has already cast a ballot. More than 697,000 people have voted in the election either in person, through a mail ballot or through the EASE system, according to the Nevada Secretary of State's latest figures released Monday night.
Abortion rights could be enshrined into Nevada's Constitution depending on the voters. Question 6 would protect the right to an abortion until fetal viability. Right now, Nevada law allows abortions up until 24 weeks. But having it amended into the state Constitution would make it harder to overturn.
Ten years after he and his wife experienced a pregnancy loss, Eli Schiff still gets a bit choked up talking about his experience with miscarriage. “You’re imagining all the things that he or she could be, you know, and that imagination or that idea of what they could have been, it doesn’t really go away,” he says of the grief associated with miscarriage.
If you have noticed more mosquitoes — or felt their bites — this past summer... You are not alone. Experts said not only did we have more mosquitoes, but we had more cases of West Nile virus when comparing it to previous years.