WASHINGTON — Sen. John Ensign on Tuesday called on congressional leaders to allow full television coverage of negotiations this week where a handful of House and Senate members will finalize the economic stimulus bill.
WASHINGTON — Nevada’s two House Democrats on Tuesday endorsed a waiver that could allow the state to qualify for federal grants for schools even if it can’t meet the financial requirements.
In late October then-candidate Barack Obama told an audience of 18,000 people in Las Vegas he wanted to help, “not just the folks who own casinos but the folks who are serving in casinos.”
Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo is an experienced cop known for choosing his words wisely. As an elected official, he knows it rarely pays to vent in public.
You gotta love Episcopalians. They can argue over big things with the intensity of a UFC cage match, but with the decorum of 4 o’clock tea.
There was a time when the Legislature’s biggest budget battles focused not on whether state government should grow, but on how much it would grow. Merely maintaining the size of government? Pshaw! Reducing it? Impossible.
No one in the Clark County School District could have seen this problem coming. Just nine months ago, the country’s fifth-largest school system was seeking support for a $7 billion construction bond issue. Today, it’s struggling to figure out how to fill hundreds of empty seats at a Henderson high school.
Bill Sanchez and Dale and Sandra Smutzler asked for reader suggestions for restaurants that serve good meatloaf, mashed potatoes and gravy, and we’ve got ’em in spades.
Sure, you can cut back any day of the week, but the calendar doesn’t always cooperate. Up pops a birthday, an anniversary, a wedding, a birth, and you feel the pressure on an already strained budget.
It’s clear, after multiple seasons of Rainbow Company’s Nevada history series, that the response to these mini-musical skits likely will be affected considerably by how many of the annual shows a viewer has seen.
People called Michael Dabour “mad” to open his Greek family’s first restaurant in Corona, Calif., practically the middle of nowhere in 1974. That gave him the name.
Ay Caramba Mexican Restaurant, 2901 W. Washington Ave., received 17 demerits Jan. 30. Violations included broken cold water faucet at hand sink. GRADE: B
After showing improvement in December, the Las Vegas housing market relapsed in January with a drop in sales and a steeper slide in prices.
CARSON CITY — The future of Internet gambling, which the Bush administration sought to bar in a rule issued in November, remains “very much up in the air,” a Nevada regulator told lawmakers Tuesday.
Wall Street found positive news in Ameristar Casinos’ fourth-quarter earnings announcement Tuesday despite the Las Vegas-based casino operator’s net loss of $101.1 million.
The number of people who visited Las Vegas fell 4.4 percent to 37.5 million in 2008.
