When Starbucks announced it was closing 600 underperforming stores, including 17 in Southern Nevada, I imagined street corners across the nation lined with out-of-work baristas.
With gold prices high and holding, the mining region of northeastern Nevada is in deep clover. Money is being tossed around.
The Rev. Jerome “Jerry” Blankinship’s ministry as pastoral care director of Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center revolves, in large part, around the simple but profound act of listening. And that probably explains the epiphany Blankinship experiences immediately after telling a story about a long-gone patient.
The Rape Crisis Center’s Spanish support group for survivors of sexual assault and their families meets at 5:30 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at 6375 W. Charleston Blvd., Building B, Room 148 (385-2153).
Q: In regards to (your column of July 6), I really did like it. I have that (David Gates/Bread) album and have listened to (“It Don’t Matter to Me”) quite a bit in the past. The song was going through my head as I read. I agree with your sentiment, it does matter to me as well. And when that person leaves to find whatever they are looking for and they don’t return, how do you forgive them? — S., Las Vegas
He’s still getting used to it, to the thought of seeing his face all over your stuff.
It’s a question that’s been asked for at least a decade, but it begs to be asked again: Do you know what your kids are doing online? I’m not talking only about your teenagers, but your “tweens,” too.
Las Vegas topped 100 million square feet of industrial space with the addition of more than 1.5 million square feet during the second quarter, local business advisory firm Applied Analysis reported.
Bankruptcy Judge Linda Riegle on Monday grilled an attorney for bankrupt Lake Las Vegas for an hour Monday over a proposed $127 million postbankruptcy loan from a group led by investment banking firm Credit Suisse.
