The feral cat room at the Lied Animal Shelter is a difficult place to keep clean.
“We must become the change we want to see.”
THE CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS 1,900 PORTABLES TO PROVIDE EXTRA CLASSROOMS AT OVERCROWDED CAMPUSES. School Board member Larry Mason this week wondered what happens to portables that are no longer needed.
We find ourselves once again tangled over abortion as Congress debates its place in national health care reform. A number of lawmakers believe language in a House health care bill will lead taxpayers to fund abortion, and the discussion has pro-abortion interests once again using words to mislead.
So, is Gov. Jim Gibbons toast? In a general election held today … yeah. But in the Republican primary next June? Not so fast.
The rationale for the free speech clause in the First Amendment has often been couched in the terms and definitions of a marketplace, where ideas compete and government is prohibited from interfering through laws, regulations or investigations.
Despite the fact she voted against it in the House Education and Labor Committee back in July, Nevada Rep. Dina Titus announced last week she now supports the House version of the breathtaking government takeover of the health care industry. Debate in the lower chamber bogged down Saturday thanks to GOP objections, but a vote on the legislation was expected sometime over the weekend.
Nation-leading growth shaped this valley’s identity for decades. The Clark County School District, more than any other local institution, was defined by this constant expansion.
A “push in Congress for broader gun rights is threatening to derail Amtrak and stall a transportation spending bill,” wrote Walter Alarkon on thehill.com on Oct. 25.
A year after his historic election, Barack Obama stands revealed as something less than the transformative president he aspired and was intermittently projected to be.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of an occasional series of stories highlighting performers who played an interesting role in the history of entertainment in Las Vegas.
Ever since “Hazards of Helen” in 1915, Hollywood has rolled in to roll in Las Vegas. More than 500 movies bear the made-in-Vegas brand. Last year alone, 32 were added to the list, according to the Nevada Film Office.
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Having to question the generally unimpeachable genius of creator Matthew Weiner is enough to make any lover of quality television wince. But here goes: What in the name of Betty Draper’s fainting couch is going on with “Mad Men”?
Irene Garcia, mother of three, was the stereotypical soccer mom.
Just because I don’t want to play a certain video game very much doesn’t mean I hate it.
Show producers get it, but they don’t have to like it. The Strip seems full if you crowd around the new Mirage volcano show. But the ticketed shows seem half empty … if they’re lucky.
Master gardener Denise McConnell’s yard features more than 30 kinds of plants blazing in color.
A delightful cool-season destination, Rogers Spring in Lake Mead National Recreation Area provides opportunities for picnicking, hiking and exploration. The natural oasis features a shallow pool fed by a warm spring shaded by palms, tamarisk and other vegetation. The overflow creates a meandering creek that heads toward Lake Mead. A few hundred yards distant, tiny Blue Point Spring supports more trees and marshy undergrowth.
Suffering is a profound mystery. If you ever meet anyone who can explain it to you, all neat and tidy, run away. Especially if they are trying to sell you CDs and a workbook in an infomercial.
Since his death on June 25, Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, still has reigned through the land. It’s hard to go a day without hearing one of his songs or hearing something new in the investigation of his death.
The Las Vegas Philharmonic Guild had its fall fundraiser to support the Kids to Concert program on Oct. 21 at the Stirling Club, honoring president of the Philharmonic’s board of trustees Jeri Crawford and board secretary Pat Fink.
Here are a few things in news, sports, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.