🚫🐶 No doggies in the (pet store) window

🐶 Petless Pet Stores

Following a one-year grace period, next week will see the deadline arrive for pet stores under county jurisdiction to stop selling dogs, cats, rabbits, and pot-bellied pigs. Some stores say they’ll pivot to grooming. And the unsold animals? They’ll be adopted out — hopefully. [KVVU]

🤖 Is AI Coming for Our Jobs?

Of all the cities in the U.S., guess which one has the most workers at risk of losing their jobs to advances in AI. You guessed it. According to a new study, in part that’s because service jobs, plentiful here, will be especially vulnerable to automation. [Vegas Inc.]

• Related: Will AI take over Las Vegas hospitality? [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

🚨 Hendo’s Police Woes

Henderson’s recently hired police chief has cleared the disciplinary record of an officer accused — in part by fellow cops, no less — of racist behaviors, a dozen violations in all. This raises a host of questions, which neither the chief nor the city will answer. [Review-Journal]

• Hey, Henderson has its good side, too! [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

💪 Union Boss Reflects on Talks

The Culinary Union’s recent contract negotiations with the Strip’s “Big Three” casino companies were by all accounts historic — so what exactly did they win, and how? Today, co-host Dayvid Figler talks with Culinary 226 Secretary-Treasurer Ted Pappageorge about the talks, from their inner workings to their larger import — and what’s next.

Inside the Culinary Negotiations

Podcast co-host Dayvid Figler debriefs Culinary boss Ted Pappageorge about the union’s recent negotiations, who buys the food during interminable bargaining sessions — and they get into a spirited conversation about Culinary’s arrest tactics. Good stuff.