The one-page advisory barely blipped on the media radar screen when it surfaced back in July.
The H1N1 vaccine will be arriving in Nevada sometime this week, health officials say.
Nevada’s unemployment rate hit 13.2 percent in August, second only to Michigan among the 50 states.
Employers offer paid time off as a quality-of-life benefit, a means of providing some professional and personal balance as well as paycheck protection in times of illness and bereavement. Paid leave isn’t supposed to make workers rich.
Still licking its collective wounds from one public health crisis, Nevada’s medical community is on the verge of another — and like last time, it has itself to blame.
It now seems nearly certain that Congress will not create a government health insurer to enter the marketplace to compel competition with private health insurers.
In all the years I worked on the top floor of One Herald Plaza, I never bumped into humor columnist Dave Barry. I never got invited up to the roof to fire potatoes into Biscayne Bay from his hair spray-powered spud gun.
Unemployment continues to tick upward. Small businesses forgo profits on two-for-one deals just to keep the doors open.
You don’t necessarily associate words such as “compassion” and “encouragement” with the aggressively in-your-face title “So You Think You Can Dance.”
It’s that classic love-hate dynamic, which can be directed at everything from sports teams to, well, people. And, Las Vegas, being a love it-hate it kind of town, probably has more than its share of colorful characters who grate or inspire.
Here are a few things in news, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
Evil is real. There are plenty of things to be embarrassed about as I observe my own life, but somewhere toward the top of the list is remembering the years when I insisted that “there’s no such thing as evil, only the absence of good.”
Joining a national trend of proliferating vineyards and wineries, Nevada’s fledgling wine industry now numbers three wineries, one each in Pahrump Valley in Southern Nevada, in the Lahontan Valley near Fallon and in the Carson Valley near Genoa. Each offers a different experience for visitors and a new attraction for increased tourism.
Russ Thompson and the Southern Nevada Arborist Group are noticing trees in decline all across town. He took me on a tour of some subdivisions and tree decline was everywhere.
I once told you “video games are as good as girlfriends — and as bad,” because games and girls can both be fun, cute, smart, stupid, high maintenance, clumsy, manipulative, and sometimes they won’t acknowledge you won a fight they started.
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Four shows closed last week. But the producer of one told me “closed” is a harsh word. That’s because, in their mind, all four will return.
Since she started learning to play the piano a year ago, Earnestine Howell, 75, feels mentally sharper, less stressed and physically relaxed.
Those who can’t do, they say, teach. Well, those who can’t do either write adventure articles.
It was an intimate evening with singer Tony Bennett and friends at Tao at The Venetian to benefit Las Vegas’ Marty Hennessy Junior Tennis Foundation on Sept. 24.
As you’re teaching your children to do things like brush their teeth you should also be encouraging them learn to be responsible with money, said the founder of Web site designed to show kids more than the value of a dollar.
Budget-minded apartment tenants may be willing to sacrifice features such as walk-in closets and hardwood floors for cheaper rent, but they still want swimming pools, fitness centers and barbecue pits that make staying home more enjoyable.
The entertainment industry always beckoned Trent Othick.
Bob Regon operates a strange business in an off-the-beaten-path location and still manages to turn a profit each year, even during the economic downturn.