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Sandra Douglass Morgan has seen a lot of changes in the five years since she was named to the Nevada Gaming Commission.The same year she became a gaming regulator, the Supreme Court cleared the path for legalized sports betting. Since then, 32 other states and Washington, D.C., have launched sports betting.During that time, Douglass Morgan went from gaming regulator to chair of the Nevada Gaming Control Board to the corporate board of directors for casino giant Caesars Entertainment. Now, she is president of the Las Vegas…

Run the Jewels rapper Michael “Killer Mike” Render had a lot to say this week about free speech, and he did it in a keynote address during a gala in New York.“I need us here to know tonight that there is no grand final winning of freedom of speech. There’s no end of the race where we all hold up trophies. It is a constant and protracted struggle to make sure the rights to become a more perfect union are always striven for,” he said. The social-justice advocate, who is the founder of Grind Time Official Records,…

A story about a young woman encountering a childhood friend has won the 4thWrite short story prize for unpublished writers of colour.Olivia Douglass’s Ink concerns the reunion of the two friends that results in shared secrets unravelling. The author and judge Sara Collins said the story had her “in its grip from beginning to end and for a long while afterwards”, and was “exactly” what she looked for in a short story. A special commendation was awarded to End of the World by Dionne McCulloch, about a woman who, distressed…