Las Vegas dentist Dr. Greg Edwards noted recently that the implications of poor oral health extend far beyond the mouth. The inability to chew affects nutrition and missing teeth can cause social isolation.
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Work experience, coupled with equity and/or wealth already in place, are reasons boomers find they’re in the right position to start a business.
Dr. Marietta Nelson, a Las Vegas ophthalmologist, advises baby boomers to get yearly checkups to prevent blindness from age-related diseases. If diseases are caught early, she says blindness can be prevented.
At the order of District Judge Richard Scotti, robbery defendant Bayzle Morgan has been allowed to cover up tattoos that show he’s a neo-Nazi white supremacist. Taxpayer-funded makeup amounts to a bailout for his bad decisions.
You can’t miss the $47 million Centennial Bowl project, with the numerous daily detours, small army of construction workers and towering cranes.
Poet Lee Mallory came to Las Vegas from California hoping to turn on Southern Nevadans to poetry. He’s performed in casinos, bars and coffee houses, believing that in these trying times poetry can mellow people out.
As the world waits to see if the entire Russian team is expelled from the 2016 Olympic Games, Las Vegan John “Jack” Spargo remembers how the Russians always did things their own way.
With research finding that the typical boomer feels nine years younger than his/her chronological age, it is not surprisingthat many of them opt for plastic surgery, a doctor says. Men are now becoming a much larger part of the cosmetic surgery market to stay competitive in the marketplace and to attract spouses after a divorce.
Combining municipal elections in odd years with county, state and federal elections in even years could save Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas and Boulder City substantially.
A math teacher who refuses to allow classroom time to be wasted also finds time to help students with challenges of poverty. Even though her students are often labeled at-risk, she has managed to raise test scores in math.
Hailing a taxi isn’t so hard for tourists hopping around casinos on the Strip. But what do residents go through when they need to catch a cab to the airport, grocery stores or work? The Nevada Taxicab Authority wants to know.
If there is no trust, blacks and whites will always face conflict. A schoolteacher and a journalist learned through their work that there are good and bad among both whites and blacks.
Former mayor and American Heart Association executive escaped Nazi concentration camps at age 7, says illegal immigrants deserve compassion.
A veteran Las Vegas financial planner says that people approaching retirement must plan to have an income stream that covers their basic expenses.
In order to provide a solid future for their children, Fabian Coleman and his wife, Nina, have saved money so he can go to truck driving school and buy his own truck. Now he worries that technology could end his dream and throw millions of truckers out work.