One thing we’ve always known in the newspaper business — or ought to have known — is that we’re not necessarily being truthful by being factual.
If we had no armed central state to seize money from people against their will and fund the government schools, we’d have no tax-funded government schools.
It’s easy to get down on Las Vegas, especially during these dog days of triple-digit summer. We’re aggravated by the inadequate roads and highways. We’re frustrated about the underfunded schools. We feel helpless about an economy wholly dependent on distant vacationers. We’re bewildered by parents who kill a mentally disabled child by leaving him in a hot car for 17 hours.
A new police report shows off-duty Nevada Highway Patrol Sgt. Edward Lattin had more marijuana in his system than state law permits when he triggered a three-car crash that left one person dead last month.
Here are some questions I recently encountered and my responses to them.
The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill has weekly support groups at 6:30 p.m. Mondays at its clinic, 1590 W. Sunset Road, and at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays at Nevada Adult Mental Health Services, 6161 W. Charleston Blvd., Building 1 (310-5764).
Angels in the Valley provides clothing packages to hospitals for needy families who can’t afford to outfit their new babies.
Tempest Storm is fuming. Her fingers tremble with frustration. They are aged, knotted by arthritis and speckled with purple spots under paper skin.
George Carlin is dead. He was an icon of my youth, and a counted on companion throughout my adulthood. What did I count on him for? To tell the truth. To keep me honest. To remind me that I am small, ordinary, impermanent and ridiculous.
Travelers on Nevada’s highways parallel historic trails established by explorers and frontiersmen and followed by emigrant trains and commercial traffic as the west was settled. Part of 93 north of Ely and all of US 50 across the middle of the state follows the 402-mile route of the Pony Express, the shortest route cross the vast territory that would become Nevada.
Hold off on buying season tickets for the phantom NBA team that Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman is busy courting.
NO FEAR: Economic downturn or not, there are still some entrepreneurs willing to jump into the fray and launch new businesses. A look at some who are doing it and some ideas about what you can do to increase your chances of launching a successful business in bad times.
The poker community is abuzz over what some believe was special treatment Harrah’s Entertainment officials gave superstar Phil Hellmuth during the World Series of Poker’s main event.
It takes patience and understanding to muddle through the process of buying a home in short sale, local real estate experts said.