Opening statements, a field trip and an expletive-laden audiotape marked the first week of testimony in O.J. Simpson’s Las Vegas trial.
At the rate we are going, our American juries are going to look like South American drug trials, the jury box packed with a dozen black-hooded jurors to conceal their identity and prevent retaliation.
Huge financial institutions long screened from normal investor skepticism by the assurance that “They can’t fail, they’re federally regulated!” are dropping like dinosaurs in the snow.
The terms new and old media distort — but trust panels and speakers at the Blog World convention here in Las Vegas this weekend will invest both intellect and passion in debating what is old, what is new and what comes next in the Information Age.
A funny thing happens whenever you suggest reform and regulation of an industry. You’re instantly labeled a socialist.
The Nevada Democratic Party wants to re-take control of the Nevada state Senate for the first time in 18 years.
When you’re not getting paid for it, fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Nevada is off to an impressive start in the solar sweepstakes. In August, UNLV hosted a national clean energy conference. In Boulder City, Solar One is producing thermal solar power. In Las Vegas, Ausra is manufacturing solar plant components.
“Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem.”
The corruption-stained Clark County Commission demonstrated how far it has come — and how far it still has to go — in restoring its reputation when it voted Tuesday to open a lucrative airport concession to competition.
The latest political conceit — the president must be e-mail savvy — deserves all the disdain that can be heaped upon it.
Harry Reid claims John McCain is hotheaded. Names for the opposite of that aren’t as colorful. Is anyone called a “cool head”? But Gilles Ste-Croix could be submitted as the dictionary definition of one.
Like most first- and middle-wave baby boomers, Natalie and Doug Ahlstrom can feel their retirement getting closer and closer all the time.
Here are a few of the things in news, entertainment and pop culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
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A parade of 21- to 40-year-old stay-at-home mothers come to my office and complain of boredom, resentment, depression, loneliness: “I feel like I’m going crazy” … “If I don’t talk to a grown-up soon, I … I …” … “I need some ‘me time.’ “
This is undoubtedly the year of stupid, stupid oil. As you know, 2008 started with Daniel Day-Lewis winning an Oscar for playing a tycoon who kills people for oil in “There Will Be Blood.” Then, gasoline prices skyrocketed. And at the Republican National Convention, people in the crowd literally were screaming, “Oil!”
Flowering annuals will show you a good time with the brightest colors in the plant world. Grow them in sun, shade, underneath shrubs or trees, in borders or in containers of any kind.
Few areas within easy reach of Southern Nevadans offer better displays of autumn’s colored foliage than Southern Utah’s high plateaus forested with dark fir, spruce and pine. Accessible within a half-day’s drive, these tablelands in the fall feature wide amber meadows starred with late summer wildflowers that vie for admiration with stands of white-trunked aspens wearing foliage of gold and orange. Head for the high country soon to take in this natural extravaganza, for by mid-October the best of the high country color will be gone with the falling leaves and frost-blackened flower stalks.
The Review-Journal has extended the deadline for nonprofit groups to submit their holiday bazaar information. Submissions will be accepted through Wednesday .
