The Obama administration’s multi-pronged attack, designed to place private American corporations under federal oversight and control on a model reminiscent of Benito Mussolini’s approach in the Italy of the 1920s and 1930s, raced ahead this week as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the administration will ask Congress to give shareholders a “nonbinding” voice on executive pay and to require corporate compensation committees to stand independent of company management.
UNLV President David Ashley is about to lose his job, and one of the biggest reasons why can be boiled down to this: When the school’s drama queen and its queen of political correctness were burning bridges, destroying good will and embarrassing the entire campus, he did nothing to stop them. In fact, he lent them his full, unconditional support.
One of the measures of a Nevada legislative session is whether lawmakers made government more open or more secretive. In the 2009 session, although they missed some opportunities, legislators generally advanced the cause of open government.
The day after the coroner announced that the death of impressionist/singer Danny Gans was accidental, the Review-Journal received a reply to our public records request for Gans’ toxicology report.
We’ve seen mixing of politics and religion lately, and it has become apparent that some people are confused.
Here are some problems I encountered from visitors to the Springs Preserve:
Tucked into a corner of the casino, the Gold Coast’s poker room might seem easy to overlook — if all you’re doing is looking.
Camera flashes often slice through the near darkness of the Artisan Hotel lounge. Any part of any wall makes a good backdrop, or you can pose behind an empty picture frame hanging from the ceiling at a tilt.
A supermarket at midnight: plenty you’d expect, plenty you wouldn’t.
Jim Lower bends over and takes his spanking with an all too-happy grin. His buddy waits his turn with a crocodile smile of his own.
The bewitching hour in Las Vegas may be unlike that in any other city. After all, Vegas built its reputation as a 24-hour town.
But the Strip isn’t the only place that sees action in the wee hours of the morning.
To get a taste of what goes on elsewhere in a city that never sleeps, we sent eight reporters to a variety of locations to record events at midnight on a recent Friday.
Makes sense outside, lettered across the glass-door gate, buses pullin’ in.
Patients in therapy tell unhappy stories about relationships with their mothers and fathers. They complain about the past. They complain about the present. They are oppressed by thoughts of the future.
Bishop Gorman High School’s 14th annual wine and beer tasting, offering a little “vino therapy,” was May 30 at South Point.
It’s unfathomable how video game players get riled up over the stupidest stuff. The other day, I was playing “UFC 2009 Undisputed” online — against an anonymous kid who sounded 14 — and he whined that I was kicking him, you know, with my feet.
Central Arizona’s Verde Valley lures visitors with stunning scenery, varied recreational opportunities and fascinating remnants of the past. The region boasts scenic highways, ghost towns, historic railways, state parks and national monuments. Within a half-day’s drive from Las Vegas, the Verde Valley invites Southern Nevadans to visit and explore year-round.
There’s nothing much going on at University Medical Center’s emergency department at midnight.
While in French class, Nicole Raffail hears her phone vibrating in her bag sitting on the floor beneath her desk, indicating she has received a new text message.
She didn’t have a clue about track or cross country when she walked on the field, motivated by little more than an impulse to try something new — and the feeling that running was something she might be good at.
Summer’s here, and that usually means throwing that backyard party you’ve been waiting all year to host.
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Here are a few things in news, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
The guns of “Time Crisis 3” sit in their holsters waiting for a trigger-happy soul to stop the Zagorias’ army invasion.
I always assumed Disney’s young stars were grown in a lab.
Cricket chirps fill the gazebo outside the Little White Wedding Chapel — at least they do in between the whooshing of vehicles along Las Vegas Boulevard. The chapel’s first bride and groom of May 16, 2009 face one another.