Democrats applaud selection of Biden

As a 2008 presidential candidate, Sen. Joe Biden never made it to the Nevada caucuses. He dropped out two weeks before the Jan. 19 contest.

Gibbons’ numbers beyond compare

CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons should avoid entering any popularity contests against other governors in the Mountain West. He would come in dead last.

Nevadans give McCain edge

Nevada voters favor Republican John McCain over Democrat Barack Obama, but a sizable number who plan to vote remain undecided about the presidential race, according to a new Review-Journal poll.

Reporter’s Notebook

DESPERATE TO GENERATE MORE REVENUE, the Clark County School District is exploring the possibility of selling advertising space on and in its school buses.

Poll says picking Romney may help McCain in Nevada

If Republican presidential candidate John McCain picks Mitt Romney as his running mate, it could give him a boost in Nevada, according to a new Review-Journal poll.

Is Nevada’s tax burden low or high?

It’s easy to imagine the glee with which Nevada’s ever-higher-taxes crowd must be greeting a new study from the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation, which found that Silver State residents enjoy the nation’s second-lowest state and local tax burden.

Obama and Biden

Forty years ago, Americans still tuned in the respective Democratic and Republican national conventions to find out who was going to be nominated for president.

State Democrats converge on Denver

Four years ago as Nevada Democrats prepared to attend their party’s national convention in Boston, they had been hammered with the message that they lived in a battleground state.

Inflation running 5.6 percent … and other nonsense

I’m a coin collector, in a small way. British issues of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, mostly: Pistrucci, the Wyons — apogee of the engraver’s art.

Bombast over finesse

You had three agendas last week at the Saddleback Church forum.

Some sage proposals

As worse economic news piles on top of the bad — declining passenger traffic at McCarran International Airport, declining visitor counts, declining gaming and sales tax collections — one group of Nevadans is doing a lot more than just squeal about state budget cuts leading to Armageddon.

GOIN’ TO THE DOGS

We knew Review-Journal readers loved their dogs. But maybe we didn’t know they loved them quite this much.

It’s tough to say goodbye

Amy Cartwright and her son, Cole, have spent the past few weeks buying school supplies, picking out school clothes and doing all of the other chores required before Cole begins his first day of kindergarten.

OUTDOOR BRIEFS

PLAY A KEY ROLE

‘Mad Men’ remarkably captures feel of early 1960s

Walking onto the set of “Mad Men’s” Sterling Cooper — the famously decadent ’60s advertising agency at the heart of the Emmy’s most-nominated drama (10 p.m. Sundays, AMC) — you feel almost naked without a stiff drink in one hand, a cigarette in the other, and a girl from the steno pool to sexually harass.

OUT THERE

HIKES

The Book Nook

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Fort Churchill now peaceful but has seen share of strife in past

Stripped of roofs, windows and doors, stark adobe ruins remain of buildings that once comprised Nevada’s first military installation. Strife between native Paiutes and white settlers in 1860 resulted in the establishment of Fort Churchill east of Carson City. Now preserved as Fort Churchill State Historic Park, the outpost saw nearly a decade of active use during turbulent times.

HAS LAS VEGAS JUMPED THE SHARK?

There comes a moment in nearly every popular television show’s history when, like a pandering politician, it will do anything just to get people to like it.

Building blocs

The national headlines tell stories of unions in retreat, of organized labor groups facing record-low membership numbers and fewer retirement benefits for their workers.

COMING IN THIS WEEK’S BUSINESS PRESS

BLOGGING FOR BUCKS: Businesses are increasingly using blogs to help market their companies, but they are also finding blogs can create new legal problems, too.

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