STARon sounds like something out of “Star Trek,” but the proposed disciplinary program for students actually has more in common with “The Breakfast Club.”
The financially troubled owner of the Las Vegas Marathon has agreed to a partnership designed to finally put the event on terra firma for this year’s Dec. 7 race and beyond.
Nobody asked me, and billionaires rarely take my advice anyway, but may I make a suggestion? The Plaza in downtown Las Vegas needs to go back to its original name, the Union Plaza. Many of us never stopped calling it that. Never made the transition to calling it Jackie Gaughan’s Plaza or just the Plaza.
The contemporary American family loves a good show of breasts and transvestites, but they don’t take kindly to staged violence against women. I came to this conclusion after checking out one of the biggest, happiest family days of the year: the Age of Chivalry Renaissance Festival at Sunset Park.
Emptying the notebook after the 13th Andre Agassi Grand Slam for Children benefit concert on Saturday at Wynn Las Vegas:
Cindy Florez can’t always remember the name of the man who will get her vote for president, but she knows his party and that’s enough.
A campaign finance “watchdog” outfit last week filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission against two groups — one pro-Republican and the other pro-Democrat — alleging they violated the law by airing political ads during the current presidential campaign.
The state’s financial picture continues to worsen as the nation’s economy slips toward recession.
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A 14,000-square-foot home at 59 Promontory Ridge in the master-planned Summerlin community closed escrow Oct. 3 for $11.5 million, the highest residential transaction so far this year in Las Vegas.
Jim Mace has witnessed Las Vegas in all its modern-day iterations, from a midsized town of 650,000 to a sophisticated metropolis where developers deploy today’s most advanced design and construction techniques.
