CLERMONT, Ind. — Kyle Busch was frustrated by NASCAR’s latest rule change. He took it out on the competition.
All season, a long goodbye has been going on at Yankee Stadium, and rightfully so for the “House That Ruth Built,” all cement and grass and facade, a nostalgic memory-making machine that started churning out magic moments once the turnstiles started spinning on April 18, 1923.
Brunch came with a side of one-liners Saturday, until the subject turned to politics.
What if you could prevent your sister, your daughter or yourself from falling into an abusive relationship with a simple click of the mouse?
Several long-serving elected officials throughout the state, including Clark County Commissioner Bruce Woodbury, cannot seek re-election this year under a ruling by the Nevada Supreme Court.
Lounging in his leather easy chair, Bruce Woodbury looks as serene as the windswept mountain range he gazes at through his living room window in his Boulder City home.
WASHINGTON — Congress continued to struggle last week to pass legislation aimed at reducing the price of $4 per gallon gasoline.
Andrew McCain, son of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, on Saturday resigned from the boards of Silver State Bancorp of Henderson and Silver State Bank for “personal reasons,” the holding company said.
Carolyn Jessop is the one who got away.
Even as gasoline prices finally start to recede, I’m betting a number of valley drivers still are ready to dump their fuel-guzzling SUVs and pickups.
HAVE STATE BUDGET CUTS GOT YOU FEELING SQUEEZED? Assemblyman Joe Hardy knows how you feel and has a handy visual aid to prove it.
The Springs Preserve is earning a place within the growing cultural landscape of Southern Nevada. It hosts weekly farmers markets and jazz performances, monthly historical discussions and regular ecological tours. The Wolfgang Puck Café, with its cityscape views, has become a popular lunch spot for workers in the area.
The state Supreme Court on Friday handed down a ruling on state term limits which won’t please everyone, but which avoided the major dangers and — finally, after 12 years — lets Nevadans know where they stand.
There seems to be a lot of press regarding the agricultural exemption granted Gov. Jim Gibbons for his property in Elko County. A quick look at the law may be helpful:
In the July issue of Imprimis, an outreach publication of Michigan’s free-market-oriented Hillsdale College, Edward J. Erler, professor of political science at California State San Bernardino, challenges the prevailing wisdom that the 14th Amendment bestows “birthright citizenship” on the newborn child of any illegal alien who can manage to avoid deportation long enough to give birth — usually in a taxpayer-funded hospital.
Since this space is frequently devoted to bemoaning government secrecy and closed-door meetings, I would be remiss, nay, derelict if I failed to offer a tip o’ the hat in recognition of the fact the Nevada Commission on Judicial Selection has chosen to throw open its doors and let the public see just how they go about selecting judges to fill mid-term vacancies.
Let us review the very recent activities of the two major candidates for president.
During the 2006-07 school year, 218 Clark County public schools showed “adequate progress” under federal No Child Left Behind standards. In 2007-08, the number of schools showing “adequate yearly progress” dropped by 32, to 186.
If you go all the way back to the very first press conference, The Second City turned out to be a promise unfulfilled.
One after another, cars flowed in a colorful stream westward on Fifth Street. But even before I saw them, I could hear them. The deep, throaty rumble of V-8 engines, mingled with the less robust yet satisfying sound of four- and six-cylinder vehicles with tuned exhaust systems. Sounds from the past; sounds from the 1940s, ’50s, ’60s and a touch of the 1970s, too.