I, along with several other Review-Journal scriveners, recently joined the lowing herds browsing the ether — otherwise known as bloggers, those free-range creatures who mostly chew up the intellectual property of others and spit out their cuds online.
Medical doctor Tim Ryan (tfr.ryan@comcast.net) responds to my recent column on medical costs:
When I contemplate the dangers facing America, two competing thoughts arise regarding the Democratic takeover of the federal government.
Members of the Culinary union have as much right as anyone to attend Las Vegas City Council meetings and make their opinions known.
“Some judges are in office for an entire career and do not accumulate the type of dismal professional history that the record in this case establishes. … No employee, even those inured to a judges’ mercurial temperament and foul mouth, should have to experience what Judge Halverson made her immediate staff live and work through.”
People wonder why Mike Huckabee would come out with a book that violates Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment, which is not to criticize another Republican, and trashes the wholly deserving Mitt Romney.
For the past year, students have been affected by Nevada’s poor economic climate. Higher education system Chancellor Jim Rogers has spearheaded the call to oppose any further budget cuts, and for that we, the students, are grateful — not only to Chancellor Rogers, but to his family as well.
Quick political pop quiz: After U.S. Sen. John Ensign, who’s the most powerful elected Republican from Southern Nevada?
It’s starting to feel like losing a friend. A friend who shot a fellow cop in the face, tortured and killed suspects, put seized drugs back on the streets he patrolled and started a bloody war between a Mexican cartel and the Armenian mob just to help cover his tracks, but a friend nonetheless.
It’s 6:40 on a Friday morning at Palo Verde High School.
Your gift this holiday season may stop giving — if it’s a gift card.
Many students are questioning the fairness of having to pay to park in their high school lots. Some only see logic in paying for spots if their money benefits the school.
You are at the nursery buying a tree and see a beautiful giant tree in a 36-inch box, but the price is high. Next to this tree, is one in a 15-gallon container. Which one will you pick? I hope you pick the smaller one.
How do we measure the quality of our lives? Numbers amassed in a bank account? Our portfolio of real estate, as if we were playing a real-time game of Monopoly? The places we shop for clothes? The car we drive? The neighborhood in which we live?
A friend called the other day and asked (as I paraphrase): Why does every TV ad for a video game look like it’s the end of the world, like we’re all going to die in a fire of blood? My answer: Because this is the most apocalyptic season for games I can remember.
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Thankful? Two wars continue overseas, the economy is as uncertain as Lindsay Lohan’s sexual orientation, the only jobs around seem to be ones that have disappeared and ones that eventually will, and foreclosures are making Southern Nevada neighborhoods look like deserted Hollywood backlots.
The UNLV Foundation thanked donors with its 29th annual dinner on Nov. 14 at The Mirage Grand Ballroom.
If Donn Arden were alive he’d love this idea, love what we’re planning,” says Jerry Mitchell.
Here are a few of the things in news, sports, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
Occupying a little bluff outside Overton, the Lost City Museum, Pueblo Grande de Nevada, interprets thousands of years of cultural heritage along the Muddy River in northeastern Clark County. Inside, the facility protects a treasury of artifacts spanning 10,000 years of human activity in the river valley. Outside, it re-creates the kind of multi-unit village developed by farmers of prehistory populating areas with water resources in the desert Southwest.
CASH NO, BASH YES: The struggling economy means fewer companies are giving holiday bonuses. More companies are giving parties, home-cooked meals or paid time off to make the holiday merrier for staff with less pinch to bottom lines.
The trade show portion of the annual Global Gaming Expo is all about innovative slot machines, systems and new gambling devices.
My first work day at CityCenter — the largest privately financed project in U.S. history — starts in the pitch black hour of 4:30 a.m. It’s still crisp and cool outside, eerily quiet and calm, when a crush of cars converge onto Dean Martin Drive for the 6 a.m. shift change.
