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Freedom to Write

Best-selling author David Guterson rarely sets a story in a locale outside of the Pacific Northwest, where he was born and raised and still lives.

From the ‘Street’ to the Strip

The “Street” fleet’s in — as in “Sesame Street Live,” back for another romp of classic characters in their yearly leap from screen to stage, this time called “Elmo’s Green Thumb.” But this year, the town’s abuzz with rumors that some citizens of the “Street” have been spotted in and around the Strip, trying out for Vegas shows.

Here & Now

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Batters Up

Longer, thicker, darker. Until recently those words had become as believable to women as “bigger, firmer, fuller.” With the December FDA-approval of cosmetic prescriptions for Latisse, however — a treatment originally used for glaucoma until patients discovered it caused eyelash growth — the claim is now reality.

Style Scoop

Style Scoop

FASHION AND BEAUTY GET THE ‘GREEN’ LIGHT

If you refuse both paper and plastic and recycle religiously then surely your clothes and beauty products boast the same green conscience. Then again, maybe not.

‘Out of control’ salaries?

Some academics have always bristled at the money and attention lavished on college sports. But watching major universities pour tens of millions of dollars into coaching salaries while cutting core education has been too much for University of Nevada, Reno President Milton Glick to bear.

Popularity contest

Nevada Democrats spent much of last year crowing about their influence in the national presidential sweepstakes.

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to visit Las Vegas, tour work sites

WASHINGTON — Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is scheduled to make her first trip to Las Vegas as a Cabinet member today where she will address a labor gathering and visit two or three work sites, officials said.

IN BRIEF

Community bank out of Nasdaq compliance

Commission sets date to decide on power-rate bid

As the first in a series of hearings on NV Energy’s big rate case wrapped up Wednesday, the state’s Public Utilities Commission set a date for a decision on the utility’s rate-increase request.

Valley home prices tumble to 2001 levels

Las Vegas home prices have retreated to 2001 levels, although two-thirds of the homes being sold now are foreclosures, housing analyst Larry Murphy of SalesTraq said Wednesday.

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