To the editor: Last month, the Rasmussen Reports tracking poll had the Democrat-led Congress with a 9 percent approval rating. After the recent decision of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to send Congress on a five-week vacation rather than allow a vote on our nation’s energy future, that historically low 9 percent number has surely gone down.
At the risk of sounding like a less lofty (but more doable) version of the John Lennon song “Imagine,” I’ll ask all Nevadans on this fine August morning to imagine a tax holiday — a day on which all the people may shop for back-to-school supplies without paying sales tax.
For more than a year, officials from Nevada’s higher education system have argued that their ability to attract and retain top academics has been compromised by the state’s refusal to offer taxpayer-subsidized health insurance to domestic partners.
Given the number of judicial races on Tuesday’s primary ballot, you’d think voters might have at least marked their sample ballots before heading to the early polls.
Some Arkansas Democrats — Clintonians, of course — were trying to ease the pain of retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark.
Dogs played poker behind the men whose dreams gave birth to Las Vegas. But today’s leaders possess an appreciation for the fine arts as sophisticated and eclectic as our city itself has become.
With its picturesque mountain setting and abundance of 19th century buildings, historic Virginia City offers visitors plenty of charm and a busy schedule of special events. Its fabulous Comstock Lode glory days gone, Nevada’s most famous mining boomtown survives today on tourist dollars.
One of the most challenging design features today is home lot sizes shrinking to postage stamp proportions. If you are looking for a small tree, here are a few suggestions:
Bringing a pop-culture icon to TV is full of so many pitfalls, “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” star Thomas Dekker could be forgiven had he opted for something simpler. Like theoretical physics. Or explaining theoretical physics to Brooke Hogan.
If you’re just tuning in, this is Part Two of our discussion about male rites of passage into adult manhood. We’re examining the universal themes of these rites across time and place and culture. Last Sunday, we explored the necessity for radical separation from the mother. Today, The Ordeal.
The Review-Journal again is compiling a directory of Las Vegas Valley bars that cater to fans of specific NFL teams.
Here are a few of the things in news, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
MODEL AIRPLANES: Allegiant Travel Co. is defying the odds: The Las Vegas-based airline is making a profit despite a bad economy and rising fuel costs, something almost all other airlines aren’t able to do.
Boyd Gaming Corp. continues to receive accolades from Wall Street for putting the brakes on its $4.8 billion Echelon project. The company hopes to resume construction on the Strip development sometime next year.
As New Jersey stumbled through one of its episodic bouts of dysfunctional state budgeting two years ago, the Nevada Development Authority sensed a chance to pounce on a wounded animal.
