Three decades after its creation, the Moapa Valley National Wildlife Refuge will finally open to the public, if only for one day a week.
Southern Nevada politician to Northern Nevada: “Get your grubby hands off our stimulus package!”
Even when exhausted from treatment with interferon, a potent substance sometimes capable of beating back hepatitis C, 61-year-old Gwendolyn Martin has to take medication to help her sleep.
For Nanny Staters, the socialization of public services is the gift that keeps on giving: As politicians pile more financial obligations on taxpayers, more intrusions and restrictions on personal liberties can be justified as necessary to control those increasing “public” expenses.
For more than a year, Chancellor Jim Rogers has been screaming from the tops of the university system’s ivory towers that Gov. Jim Gibbons is beyond irrelevant. The budget-cutting Republican is a political Neanderthal, a public official so loathed and isolated by his own repugnance that he makes Richard Nixon seem cuddly by comparison.
The First Amendment guarantees government may not take away your right to free speech.
For sheer boldness, you gotta love those deep-breathing Beltway Democrats who suggest America ought to alter her traditional economic principles to overcome the global recession.
Fortuitously, I recently stumbled on a copy of Henry Hazlitt’s “The Failure of the ‘New Economics,’ ” 1959, reprinted 1973.
Before going downhill fast, Bobby Jindal started badly in his nationally televised Republican response to President Obama the other evening.
St. Rose Dominican Hospital and the St. Rose Dominican Health Foundation presented the Children’s Miracle Mardi Gras Ball on Feb. 21 at Bellagio. In its 52nd year, the ball benefitted the pediatric centers at St. Rose Dominican’s hospitals.
Alma appears in front of you as a ghost. She is girlish, as thin as an unfed fence post, translucent-white. Most of the time, Alma just stands there, or shakes your shoulders. For such a slight thing, she is the “mother of the apocalypse.” Or, at least, that’s her goal in the afterlife. Little girl: big plans.
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One day,” Ms. Morrell told me, “you’re going to regret not paying attention in this class.”
The tomato is the No. 1 vegetable in Las Vegas, but it comes with hang-ups. You can overcome these by following a few simple tips suggested by Sylvain Wittwer, who will be at the Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd., at 8:30 a.m. Saturday.
Faded linoleum. Leaky toilet. Light fixture circa 1972. Towel bars falling out of the walls. The paint color is, well, when I bring home the book of color chips, the closest match is “Nicotine Dinge Yellow.” Or maybe “Jaundice.”
The lyrics of a Bob Marley song may be what best describes Dylan Parr: “Don’t worry about a thing, ’cause every little thing, gonna be all right.”
Here are a few things in news, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
You’d think being Satan’s right-hand man would come with a few perks. Untold riches. Supermodels underfoot. Maybe a job in the Yankees’ front office so he’d feel at home.