CARSON CITY — In a sign that Nevadans may see their own financial futures tied to those of their employers, residents decisively oppose raising the business payroll tax, cornerstone of the nearly $800 million tax package that has emerged in the Legislature, according to a poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
CARSON CITY — Despite concern it will fan feuds between neighbors, Assembly members voted 32-8 Saturday for a bill to limit how long one can chain a dog.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers open their next-to-last full week of the 2009 session on Monday with an outline of a nearly $800 million tax increase plan that they hope to finalize and send by the week’s end to the governor, who will veto it.
On the morning Essie Oten Reed was shot, she rose before dawn as usual and dressed for work as a housekeeper at Circus Circus. She had held the job 14 years and supported her family through good times and bad on a maid’s wages. That was October 2000.
At first, Molly was a little skittish about going outdoors, a tad hesitant about going from room to room.
CARSON CITY — Increases in sales, car registration and two other taxes will bring in about $709 million of the $780 million in tax increases that legislative leaders think they must pass before June 1 to limit state budget reductions to a reasonable level.
CARSON CITY — There is a chess game going on between the Legislature and Gov. Jim Gibbons.
I want to address a subject near and dear to my heart: Casino parking garages.
The Charleston Antique Mall is one of those seven-day-a-week outfits that rents out space to 45 or so independent antique vendors. Think Victorian furniture, Depression glass, Coca-Cola collectibles, old Elvis records.
With the Clark County School District considering furloughs, pay cuts, class-size increases and the elimination of electives and extracurricular activities to weather this terrible recession, you’d think educators would jump at the chance to save $500,000 without sacrificing a single student experience.
As the Nevada Legislature nears the end of its session — as voters and taxpayers wait in dread for small cabals of legislators to emerge from their moldy crypts waving hundreds of millions of dollars in economically crippling tax hikes during a recession — various procedural deadlines speed by, allowing numerous pending pieces of legislation to “die on the vine.”
Claudine Williams was born in 1921 in DeSoto Parish, La. She took her first casino job when she was 15, dealing cards at a private club in Bossier Parish.
Perhaps the most outrageous thing to come out of the 2009 legislative session won’t necessarily be the ginormous tax hike we’re all about to be hit with, but the behind-closed-doors secrecy by which that plan was concocted.
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have … a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters and conduct of their rulers.”
Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush and Mike Huckabee are right. That’s how bad it is for Republicans.
If a man and a woman, or two guys, or two gals desire to bind themselves contractually to what the state calls a “marriage,” then what’s a good ol’ fashioned American conservative to say?
We are made for relationship. We are social animals. Yet, we are ambivalent about intimacy: We seek it, we shun it, we long for it, we dodge it. We need it. A whole and authentic life is marked by the ability to forge lasting, intimate relationships.
Bob Mondello, the film critic for National Public Radio, put his finger on the problem of comic book villains in his negative review of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”
Visitors to the Calico Early Man Archaeological Site near Barstow, Calif., need to use their imaginations to understand what may have happened there between 135,000 and 200,000 years ago. Instead of the sun-scorched Mojave Desert of today, they must visualize a landscape with lush plains teeming with game bordering ancient Lake Manix, fish-filled and attractive to waterfowl. It would have been attractive to humans living off the bounty of the land, as well.
Communist Carebear stands on his metal pedestal on a file cabinet, surveying students as they try to find their misplaced government homework.
A man from Down Under has emerged up and over the competition in the Review-Journal’s sexiest male exotic dancer contest. “Thunder From Down Under” dancer Donovan Lewis drew a thunderous 40 percent of the 3,373 votes registered.
Flowers are the workhorses of the garden. They’ll dazzle any landscape and they radiate a warm or cool feeling, depending on the colors selected. Here are flowering shrubs and ground covers that are perpetual bloomers through the summer that anyone can rely on to put zip into a landscape.
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