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The image of the city as an adult playground has often meant extreme and erratic change for hotels, casinos, and restaurants. The Culinary Union has had enough.

<p>A leading historian of poor people&#39;s activism joins HNN for a discussion of the new edition of her acclaimed book on the Las Vegas Welfare Rights movement, which is the basis for a documentary now streaming on PBS.&nbsp;</p>

<p>A leading historian of poor people&#39;s activism joins HNN for a discussion of the new edition of her acclaimed book on the Las Vegas Welfare Rights movement, which is the basis for a documentary now streaming on PBS.&nbsp;</p>

The body of 33-year-old James Hartley was found in grave so shallow that his hand protruded through the desert soil, waving at traffic near what is now Harry Reid International Airport.

Las Vegas Weekly A casino executive mysteriously disappears. Hikers find a body in the desert. An ignition key sets off a car bomb. Fortunately, these are stories from Las Vegas ’ past, not its present. But mob-related murders—some solved, others enduring mysteries—still loom large.  “There ’s a lot of mythology surrounding organized crime, ” says Geoff Schumacher, vice president of exhibits and programs at the Mob Museum in Downtown Las Vegas.  “One of the reasons for that is it can be hard to know exactly what happened; the mob was not very good at keeping notes . … A l...