Senate Republican leaders are threatening to block confirmation of President Obama’s Health and Human Services nominees unless and until that department drops a “gag order” that prevents private health care companies from communicating with senior citizens about congressional bills intended to nationalize health care and insurance.
June’s primary election might as well be called the Raggio Referendum.
In his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Barack Obama Wednesday summoned world leaders to help him bring about a world free of nuclear weapons.
With the 2009-10 school year for the Clark County School District under way, citizens, pundits, journalists, policymakers and insiders will scrutinize the spending and performance of the district, and rightly so. We all have a right to know how much is spent and how well the district educates students.
There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.”
Imagine you’ve offered to help a teenager prepare a report on American politics of the 1970s.
Things got all turned around and twisted up last week in Washington, even more than usual.
Two men sit in a parked tan Cadillac with no rear license plate. North Las Vegas police officer Kathryne Buehler, 29, approaches the driver’s window, no trace of the bubbly personality she displayed while being interviewed in her squad car.
One of the defining characteristics of most cities in the Western U.S. is their newness; Las Vegas, for instance, is barely a hundred years old. But recently, my two youngest daughters joined me in exploring Albuquerque, N.M., where written history is more than 400 years deep, giving it a complex and interesting character unexpected of a city with only about half a million people.
In his upcoming show at the Tropicana, Wayne Newton will reminisce about his 50 years in Las Vegas. He offered a sneak-preview reflection last week.
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In its gold mining heyday, Oatman, Ariz., claimed 10,000 residents and thousands of travelers passing through on Route 66, America’s “Mother Road.” Today, the ghost town thrives on tourism, with half a million people annually finding their way to this unusual town where wild desert burros begging for snacks have the right-of-way and gunslingers battle on the main drag several times a day.
If cool-season flowers — such as pansies — could tell you when to plant them, they’d scream for planting in the fall. It’s ideal for bedding plants to produce many more blooms and the bright, sunny days bring out the rich colors these plants are famous for.
What says summer better than babies with messy goo on their faces at the swimming pool?
The Public Education Foundation presented its 13th annual Education Heroes Award Dinner on Sept. 12 at the Four Seasons.
In “Wet,” Rubi is just minding her own business as a sexy mercenary, an angry cuss wearing chest-tight leather with an itch to scratch. Then, this big mob guy tells her how much he likes her, and asks, can he hire her for a killing job?
Here are a few things in news, sports, entertainment and pop culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
She’s falling in love. And, yes, that’s a joy. But an inconvenience, too, because she has spent her whole life more or less making sure that never happens. So then she says something so honest that it takes me aback: “If I fall in love with him, I don’t know what will happen to me.”
In the 10th month of the year, Nevada finally gets its weather right! No better time than October to enjoy a festival or frolic in Cerca Country. See if one of these appeals to you.
They say experience is the best teacher. But what they don’t tell you is that, sometimes, experience is a tough teacher, too.
Let me be perfectly clear: Clear is an excellent option for providing broadband Internet service at home or away from home.
Public relations man George McCabe admits he’s a little loath these days to pass even the smallest potential clients along to someone else. He performed that courtesy plenty in the past, as did other professionals in the valley’s tight-knit community of public relations and marketing professionals, where spreading the work and the wealth is usually a matter of routine. But these days, McCabe, PR director at B&P, a spinoff of the state’s largest advertising firm R&R Partners, is looking out for his media agency first. A lack of clients to go around has made for a tougher market for flacks all over.
So where would you rather hold your next convention? Las Vegas or Detroit?
A young professional at the National Bank of Detroit heard a speech in 1959 from the head of Germany’s central bank and raised his hand to ask a question afterward.