EDITORIAL: Downtown land deal On Wednesday, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman and the rest of the City Council showed remarkable concern for the taxpaying public in putting off a deal that would have allowed Boyd Gaming to acquire a favorable piece of downtown land for pennies on the dollar.
EDITORIAL: Vote on arts center Backed by a Frank Luntz poll that reports 80 percent of local residents "favor" a city performing arts center --- and that 71 percent would still support such a center even if tax subsidies are required --- the City Council gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a plan to fund construction of a 200,000-square-foot facility to be built on 5 acres of the old Union Pacific property, downtown.
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EDITORIAL: Downtown land deal On Wednesday, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman and the rest of the City Council showed remarkable concern for the taxpaying public in putting off a deal that would have allowed Boyd Gaming to acquire a favorable piece of downtown land for pennies on the dollar.
The 2005 legislature: A back-breaking burden For the legislative session that begins Monday, let us call upon our lawmakers to repeal two specific new taxes of the many that came out of the 2003 sessions: the modified business tax and its smaller sibling, the modified business tax on financial institutions.
THOMAS MITCHELL: Not only dangerous, but disturbing We, in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our mirth; And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world's worth; For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth. --- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
LETTER: Looking out for children As a psychologist and child custody evaluator, I would like to respond to Phyllis Schlafly's column of Jan. 28 on custody battles, particularly on how these are managed in the Eighth District Family Court in Las Vegas, which is the court I am most familiar with.
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: Teaching preschoolers to read 'not encouraged' I turned this week from reading the ongoing assurances of our state's Democratic politicians that things will surely get better in the government schools if the stingy taxpayers will only OK a state lottery to throw yet more millions at the existing bureaucracy, to a piece by a former Washington, D.C., high school math teacher in this month's DeWeese Report headlined, "How teaching has been rendered impossible in government schools."
EDITORIAL: Vote on arts center Backed by a Frank Luntz poll that reports 80 percent of local residents "favor" a city performing arts center --- and that 71 percent would still support such a center even if tax subsidies are required --- the City Council gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a plan to fund construction of a 200,000-square-foot facility to be built on 5 acres of the old Union Pacific property, downtown.
