Amanda Rose Teig’s nearly 100 misdemeanor arrests and citations in the past three years have yielded only a handful of convictions and no jail time.
Not long after winning “America’s Got Talent” and its $1 million prize, ventriloquist Terry Fator moved to protect his good-as-gold assets.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers are expected to introduce more than 100 bills and discuss federal stimulus funds, budgeting accountability and pay raises in the Nevada governor’s office as they start the eighth week of the 2009 session on Monday.
RENO — A half century ago, a two-page bill passed by the Legislature planted a seed of knowledge in the Nevada desert that over the decades has grown tentacles of discovery around the globe.
Despite the ravages of recession, Carson City appears to be exuding an air of optimism. The big buzz around the Legislature concerns the potential new taxes on Nevadans and all the new government programs those new taxes will allow lawmakers to create, assuming an eventual economic recovery. The possibilities have the autocratic elite all aglow.
After more than a decade of runaway paycheck growth, a public employee union has finally agreed to cut back the generous annual salary increases that have left local governments awash in red ink, pushing buyouts and preparing for layoffs.
Politically speaking, Treasurer Kate Marshall couldn’t have picked a better time to lose nearly $50 million in taxpayer money.
I “just finished reading the article on Excessive Force on page 2B,” wrote in Ron the Former Police Officer, earlier this month. “Another person was apparently injured in a police confrontation, followed by the usual lawsuit. As a former police detective, I have a solution on how to avoid 99 percent of all injuries, lawsuits, and deaths sustained as a result of a police confrontation,” offers Officer Ron:
Two local announcements capped off Sunshine Week (dedicated to openness in government) in appropriate fashion.
Last week, the Copley family ended its 80-year ownership of the San Diego Union-Tribune, selling it to a private equity firm.
I heard it said once that “there’s so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us, that it’s sometimes hard to tell the good from bad.”
It’s pointless to isolate one’s rage on these bonuses paid by AIG, the international insurance giant that went broke by doing exotic financial transactions instead of actuarially unassailable insurance business.
Shakespeare’s comedies aren’t especially funny. That’s the comforting thing I tell myself when I write a column I don’t like. The point is no one’s perfect. Mozart was close. Picasso, too. But everyone and everything, tragically, is flawed.
The “brutal” winter weather is over. What a relief, wearing a sweater can be such a drag.
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Spring cleaning requires a little more elbow grease than the average maintenance housecleaning, says Dave Dorris, operations manager for Absolutely Spotless, a local cleaning and maid service.
Forget about the show reviews you read in these pages. Someday maybe, Antonio Restivo may be worrying about that stuff. But as I chat with him on this afternoon, we’re waiting for a more important critic.
Here are a few things in news, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
When John Chilese’s friends tell him to go fly a kite, he’s more than happy to comply. Four or five days a week, the semiretired satellite design consultant can be found beneath a vertical string at Patriot Park in northwest Las Vegas, Paul Oakenfold on the iPod.
The bad economy has impacted everything Americans do, from eating out to buying clothes and cars.
It was an evening of great food and entertainment, plus a generous serving of just desserts for the happiest mayor in the universe, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, during a roast March 14 at Green Valley Ranch to benefit Nevada’s Partnership for Homeless Youth.