A.D. Hopkins

Ruby Duncan, one of the most effective advocates for Nevada’s poor and racially oppressed, has died. She was 93. She won national fame in the 1970s by organizing a welfare rights march that temporarily halted gambling at Caesars Palace, then the plushest casino on the Strip. Duncan also was a founder of the anti-poverty agency Operation Life and helped establish a medical clinic in the heart of Las Vegas’ impoverished West Side.

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A.D. Hopkins spent 46 years as a journalist in Virginia, North Carolina, and Las Vegas. Much of that time he was an investigative reporter and editor, and part of it he was a touring correspondent focusing on small-town life. Hopkins’ fiction reflects realities and people he met in the small towns, police stations, and courthouses of Virginia. Hopkins co-authored a respected history of Las Vegas, and is an authority on early Nevada gunslingers.