Day: February 14, 2009

WASHINGTON — Employees on the Yucca Mountain Project have stepped up appeals to rescue jobs amid confirmation that an anticipated new round of federal budget cuts will put another 500 or more of them out of work.

CARSON CITY — Wild horses in Nevada benefited for decades from money from a Californian whom relatives called insane. Those funds finally are being used up, but lawmakers were told Friday that the horses have another deep-pockets benefactor.

The proposed Las Vegas City Hall moved another step toward approval Friday when the Clark County Debt Management Commission voted 11-0 to allow the city to seek up to $267 million in financing for the project.

She was a young American attorney. He was a young French chef with a Mobil five-star rating.

With frazzled investors looking for assurance someplace — anyplace — gold might seem like shiny safety.

People are sick of the ugly mess that Valentine’s Day has become. They’re sick of the consumerism, sick of the pressure to buy-buy-buy, sick of being told by the corporate masters of the universe that the only equation that matters is Cash = Love.

WASHINGTON — In a major victory for President Barack Obama, Democrats muscled a $787 billion stimulus bill through Congress late Friday in hopes of combating the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous.

CARSON CITY — A Reno judge wounded by a man who was going through a divorce and had just killed his estranged wife asked lawmakers on Friday to support a measure extending additional privacy and protections to judges.

Mandy Keefer manned the fort by herself Friday, a job the park ranger can handle without much difficulty during tough economic times when tourism is down and visitors are scarce.