Nevada
An urban inferno awaits street vendors in Las Vegas – The Nevada Independent
I first met Madrigal, or Madri as she prefers to be referred to as, at a House Depot whereas organizing our avenue vendor venture. She was splashing water onto the concrete to deliver again a cool breeze whereas concurrently trying to cowl her neck with a home made neck gaiter.
“It’s the one option to hold me from passing out,” she stated. “It’s best to see what we do again house to chill off a bit, now we have a complete hielera (ice bucket in English) we use to wash ourselves in.”
Greater than 70,000 individuals residing in Nevada are uncovered to excessive warmth situations. This disproportionately impacts Black, Indigenous and folks of shade (BIPOC) and immigrant communities residing in city areas, close to highways, or in historically underfunded areas with no entry to air-con, and poor air high quality.
“It’s unhappy. We work on daily basis underneath the solar for hours to pay for lease for a spot that doesn’t have a correct cooling system,” Madri shared. “Our communities are struggling and dying due to this.”
Bushes and inexperienced house are important to residents in Las Vegas, and this grew to become notably clear because the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted who had entry to timber and who didn’t. Neighborhoods with fewer timber and grassy areas and lots of concrete will be as a lot as 15 to twenty levels hotter than their extra rural counterparts. This is called the city “warmth island impact” and one neighborhood specifically is being affected — East Las Vegas, which is the house of many Latino people and immigrants like Madri who can’t afford air-con and don’t have any option to escape.
Las Vegas is anticipated to get even hotter within the coming years as local weather change intensifies. As the town reaches its limits, many in the neighborhood imagine now’s the time to enact actual change — not only for the tourism business, however for immigrant staff like Madri and the BIPOC neighborhood who’re overburdened and susceptible in quite a lot of different methods, together with missing entry to high quality well being care, harmful working situations, poor housing, underlying medical situations and meals insecurity.
“We will’t even go to the physician if we fall ailing,” shared Elena, one other avenue vendor. “We don’t have every other possibility however to maintain working, our household’s livelihood is determined by it. If we’re to outlive this warmth, our communities want entry to well being care no matter immigration standing and extra importantly a pathway to citizenship.”
One in 5 Nevada residents is an immigrant, and practically 35 % of the immigrant inhabitants is undocumented. In 2018, undocumented immigrants in Nevada paid an estimated $241.6 million in federal taxes and $121.3 million in state and native taxes, in response to the American Immigration Council.
“Although we contribute to the financial system on daily basis, we don’t obtain any advantages like social safety or medicare,” Madri stated. “It’s powerful as a result of we don’t have the profit to only cease working. We didn’t obtain any stimulus checks or qualify for the kid tax credit score. All we are able to do is figure and hope it’s not one in every of us who finally ends up burned from the concrete or dying of dehydration.”
Avenue distributors are uncovered to the elevated temperatures each day. Lots of them are undocumented immigrants like Madri and Elena, they usually typically have no idea the place to go for assist.
Excessive warmth has a number of well being impacts together with warmth associated sicknesses like warmth cramps, warmth rashes, warmth exhaustion and warmth stroke. These preventable well being issues are additionally related to unsafe housing situations, that are additional exacerbated by the local weather disaster and racial discrimination.
Rising proof factors to the correlation between race and environmental injustice. Taking motion now would give our communities the chance to create a extra affluent future. With equitable insurance policies in place, help of municipal authorities, and the fitting distribution of funding we are able to dismantle the constructions subjecting BIPOC and immigrants disproportionately.
“We deserve a seat on the desk,” stated Elena. “The federal government ought to be working in collaboration with us, not towards us. I’ll plant the timber myself if they offer me the assets.”
Jose Rivera is an Environmental Justice Organizer for Make the Street Nevada, a non-profit group based mostly in Las Vegas elevating the ability of working class immigrant communities across the state.
About 45 Southern Nevadans are headed to assist with recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
Nevada Task Force-1 is one of 28 Federal Emergency Management Administration teams that have been activated to assist efforts in the storm area. The team left Las Vegas about noon Friday.
At least 40 people were killed overnight after Helene came ashore late Thursday east of Tallahassee, Florida, and ripped through several states.
“Currently they have been assigned to report to Atlanta, but this can change,” Clark County Deputy Fire Chief Billy Samuels said in an email. “The anticipated travel time is approximately 30 hours. Typically, these missions are for 14 days, but can be shorter or longer depending upon the need of the communities and the incident.”
The capabilities of the team consists of search, recovery, rescue, heavy rigging, water operations, rescue K-9s, intelligence gathering and whatever else the community needs, Samuels said.
Team members come from the Clark County Fire Department, Las Vegas Fire Department, North Las Vegas Fire Department, Boulder City Fire Department, and Henderson Fire Department, but the team also includes private civilians.
Contact Marvin Clemons at mclemons@reviewjournal.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Friday, Nevada Task Force One was notified of possible deployment to assist in Hurricane Helene.
Program Manager Kenyon Leavitt received an alert notification around 3 a.m. Around 8 a.m., it was upgraded to a Type III activation. According to Clark County, that consists of 45 personnel.
NV-TF1 is one of 28 FEMA teams. It includes personnel from the Clark County Fire Department, Las Vegas Fire and Rescue, North Las Vegas Fire Department, Boulder City Fire Department, Henderson Fire Department, and private civilians.
The county says they are headed to Atlanta. It will take the team about 30 hours to travel and the mission could last for 14 days.
The capabilities of this team consist of: Search, Recovery, Rescue, Heavy Rigging, Water Operations, Rescue K’9s, Intelligence Gathering, etc., and whatever else the community needs.
“We would like to thank all the supporting members on helping get this team out the door,” Clark County says. “We will periodically update Southern Nevada with how their efforts are going.”
Southern Nevada’s Red Cross team is also deploying two volunteers to Hurricane Helene.
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In August, Nevada sportsbooks generated $25 million in sports betting revenue, a YoY increase
On Thursday, the Nevada Gaming Commission reported $25 million in sports betting revenue. That was a notable year-over-year increase for operators in the state. Compared to their numbers from August 2023, the revenue was up 38.2%. That comfortably outpaced a 5.8% rise in the handle to $455.8 million.
Revenue was down 3% from their figures in July despite a 21.3% upswing in their betting handle. In August, the $4.86 billion handle was down 3.9% compared to their figures in the first eight months of 2023. However, the $289.9 million is up 15.5%. Their 6.4% hold in 2024 is over one percentage point higher. Nevada’s year-to-date totals for state taxes are $19.6 million, roughly $2.6 million ahead of their pace last year.
Where did Nevada sportsbooks see the most wagers in August?
August has Week 0 of college football, NFL pre-season, MLB, and other various sporting events to bet on. While it’s not as busy as the fall, Nevada still saw increased revenue last month. Operators collected more than $8.7 million in revenue in August from football. That was a 72.9% increase from their figures in 2023. Additionally, Nevada’s $84.6 million handle was up 62.2% last year. That also beat their previous record of $72.3 million in August 2019.
The “catch-all” category took a jump in revenue for August 2024. This includes golf, tennis, soccer, boxing, MMA, and auto racing. Nevada sportsbooks collected $7.6 million in revenue, a 64% YoY increase. Their betting handle from the “catch-all” category in August was $112.3 million.
This helped Nevada sportsbooks offset a negative shift in baseball wagering last month. Their revenue for baseball in August was 1.8% higher at $9.7 million. However, the betting action from April – August has decreased compared to 2023. Nevada’s $1.14 billion handle in that fourth-month span is down 15.4% YoY. Their $$61.5 million in revenue is also 10% lower.
How did mobile sportsbooks fare in Nevada?
Despite $14.8 million in revenue from mobile sportsbooks in August, Nevada’s 4.7% hold on $313 million worth of wagers is their lowest in 2024. Digital wagering accounted for 61.4% of the total revenue. That is on pace to be the highest percentage since the NCGB first published those figures in 2020. Retail sportsbooks had a 7.1% win rate in August, enough for $10.2 million in wagers from $142.8 million in wagers.
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