cata*lyst (kat’e list’) n. 1 (chemistry) A substance, usually used in small amounts relative to the reactants, that modifies and increases the rate of a reaction without being consumed in the process. 2 A person or thing acting as the stimulus in bringing about or hastening a result.
There are four words one never wants to hear from a friend. And I’m reluctant to use them myself. These four words can come across to the recipient as proud and haughty. At the very best, they can sound indelicate. So it is with great consternation and some reluctance that I open our time together in this space with these very four words: I told you so.
In a masterpiece of cynicism, American labor unions have come up with a scheme to bypass those federally supervised, secret ballot elections they keep losing … and dubbed it the “Employee Free Choice Act”!
This legislative session will be one of the most challenging in our history. Legislators and the governor should prepare for this challenge by reconsidering their oath to uphold the Nevada Constitution.
Now that the primary election has passed, all political eyes here are focused on November’s general.
Generalizing is a dicey business, especially in Las Vegas.
The Clark County Commission appears ready to reverse its decision to leave a completed and badly needed Las Vegas Beltway interchange closed for two years.
Here are a few of the things in news, pop culture, entertainment and sports that we’ve been talking about lately:
Shelly Cook calls out to her husband and 9-year-old son across the Wal-Mart at the Las Vegas Beltway and South Rainbow Boulevard. She has spotted the next item on the back-to-school shopping list they downloaded from the Clark County School District Web site, www.ccsd.net.
Vines are versatile plants. They perform functions no other plants can do: They shade, screen, shelter, obscure, add color and fragrance and take up very little lateral space. Yes, vines are ideal for our postage stamp-size landscapes. Here are some of my favorites:
Once infamous for its lawlessness, old Pioche now espouses family fun and old-fashioned American activities during holidays and special events. The historic mining boomtown born of silver discoveries in 1864 once boasted a population of 10,000. Just 900 people call Pioche home today, but they work together to produce the town’s busy Labor Day schedule, an annual event for the past 103 years.
Fueled by money from Dubai, Cirque du Soleil is ready to soar around the world.
Wendy Dietzel sells handmade soaps, incense and all the ingredients that a practicing Wiccan uses for magic potions.
Finitude means limits. No boy can become a man unless he comprehends this paradox: He is not nothing; he is not everything.
Compared with the high rollers who crowd Wynn Las Vegas each weekend, Middle America tourists in fanny packs aren’t nearly as glamorous.
Log onto the Las Vegas Business Press Web site and let us hear your opinion on this week’s question.
WORKERS’ PARADISE: Labor experts say organized labor in the Silver State thrives today.
