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School Lockdowns Rise

The newly ended school year saw a rise in lockdown incidents. There were 98 hard lockdowns, as opposed to 80 the year before, plus 331 soft lockdowns, compared to 313. Caveat: Not all were due to on-campus incidents; police action near a school often results in a lockdown. [KSNV]

• More school stuff: How Las Vegas became a school-choice hot zone. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

Abortion Patients Protected

On the campaign trail, Gov. Lombardo changed his stance on safeguarding out-of-state abortion seekers; initially saying he’d repeal his predecessor’s protections, he later changed his mind. This week he signed a bill that secures abortion patients in Nevada no matter where they live. He also OK’d a bill strengthening protections for election workers. [Nevada Independent, KVVU]

• Related: Tracking Lombardo’s vetoes. [Nevada Independent]

Middle of the Road

You can’t swing a Yugo in this town without hitting a tailgating road-rager, a fast-lane slowpoke, or an entitled jerk sending a text while driving. And yet this study doesn’t place Nevada among the top 10 states with the worst drivers. 🤨 I demand a recount! [Digg]

🪐 Space Talk | Friday | 4 p.m.

Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco has led or participated in the imaging aspects of several planetary probes, from Voyager to Cassini. [Windmill Library, Rainbow & Windmill, free]

• 🔭 Related: a stargazer’s guide to Las Vegas. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

🎶 ‘Wham!’ | Friday | 7:30 p.m.

Alexandra Arrieche conducts the Henderson Symphony Orchestra in its season finale. Highlights: a piece inspired by Steve Jobs, and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.3. [Dollar Loan Center, Henderson, free]

🎸 Mercy Music, Brake Check, Sweet Gloom | Saturday | 9-11:30 p.m.

Local bands raise the roof! [Red Dwarf, Maryland & Vegas Valley, no cover]

The Best of All the Food Groups!

Co-hosts Vogue Robinson and Dayvid Figler are joined by lead producer Sonja Cho Swanson and several boxes of locally fried dough as they pit three of the valley’s donut heavy hitters against each other in a sugar-filled throwdown. It’s all in honor of National Donut Day. They’ll tell you the backstory behind Ronald’s Donuts, Donut Bar, and Poppy’s Donuts — and then get down to business.

• Breaking: Donut Bar, one of the shops featured in this episode, closed Wednesday. [Review-Journal]
• Related: Lotta people in town love Pinkbox Donuts. Award-winning food writer Kim Foster isn’t one of them. Listen to her surprising reason why. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]