The Tropicana Las Vegas closed Tuesday to make way for a baseball stadium for the relocated Oakland Athletics. But the shut down began last week as former employees and tourists gave the Rat Pack-era property a send-off.

It's been 25 years since the gaming industry embraced responsible gambling messages and began funding research for compulsive gambling. It wasn't always a uniform approach.

Thursday's vote will end more than two months of uncertainty after the resignation of former chancellor Melody Rose in April.

The amended version of the bill, SB267, would require the Department of Taxation to annually survey corporations and government agencies with 1,000 or more employees about the diversity of their workforces, with a focus on women and women of color. Reports of that data, with personal information redacted, would then be made publicly available online.

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During a meeting of the search subcommittee on Friday, board members almost unanimously praised Brown, hired by Gov. Steve Sisolak in January 2019, and recommended that he be hired to be the next full-time leader of the agency, which is best known for offering a variety of tax incentives and abatements to new or expanding businesses in the state. 

According to a copy of Sisolak’s official calendar, the new governor held a slew of meetings and calls throughout January and the first week of February with education and business leaders, union heads, one Trump administration official and with California billionaire and Democratic megadonor Tom Steyer.