Wendell Potter, the former health insurance executive turned critic, was telling me last week that the industry was not inherently evil, but merely insulated in a fatally flawed culture that emphasizes serving investors over helping sick people.
The Nevada Supreme Court has instructed Clark County District Court judges to start charging fees to defendants represented by the public defender’s office or otherwise represented by lawyers paid by taxpayers — on a sliding scale based on their ability to pay.
Sarah Palin has come out with her new book and it is causing quite a stir. Regardless of what you may think about the former Alaska governor, she has tapped into the grassroots of America and proved that she has a sense of the pulse and values of Joe Sixpack and Sally Doe.
When does a prolonged, demonstrated indifference to state law and the state constitution among elected politicians and appointed bureaucrats become a malevolent conspiracy against the public?
We all make mistakes. Most of us are big enough to make things right when a mistake is brought to light.
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when men were men, women were women and presidents were hermaphrodites.
Earlier this year, the wealthy and powerful Culinary union launched a bruising legal battle against the city of Las Vegas, endeavoring to place before local voters ballot measures that would have delayed a proposed new City Hall building and placed new restrictions on the downtown redevelopment agency’s activities.
A yam by any other name is a sweet potato, as the names often are used interchangeably. Yams aren’t just good to eat — they also make beautiful vining houseplants. The quick-growing purplish vines covered with emerald-green heart-shaped leaves are attractive wandering around window frames in homes. Have your children grow them anytime for an excellent activity, especially this time of year.
It would be like realizing in the operating room that your surgeon is Patrick Dempsey. Or that the attorney standing between you and death row is Andy Griffith.
Like most law firms, Jolley, Urga, Wirth, Woodbury & Standish is a buttoned-down kind of place. Male attorneys are expected to wear coats and ties, Fridays are not casual, and employees who greet visitors in the reception area must remove jewelry worn in body piercings.
Finding true love is something many people strive their whole lives to accomplish.
Death Valley Ranch, the remote Moorish-styled mansion in Death Valley National Park better known as Scotty’s Castle, continues to fascinate visitors as it has for more than 85 years. Located in Grapevine Canyon, the ranch served as a vacation retreat for wealthy Chicago businessman Albert Johnson and his wife, Bessie. Introduced to the desert in the early 1900s by Walter Scott, a colorful character known as Death Valley Scotty, the Johnsons developed a campsite, then decided to build a grand house. Construction began in 1924, but was never completed. The Johnsons provided the funds and Scotty the notoriety.
Alice O’Hearn walked into the physical therapy center on a mission: visit her injured mother.
Christmas is the perfect time to remind friends and family back east that you live in a warm place where anything goes, and they don’t.
Down Syndrome Organization of Southern Nevada presented “A Heart for the Holidays” gala on Nov. 19 at Paris Las Vegas.
I’m not one of those fathers who wield strident preferences for my sons’ respective career paths. However they ultimately make their living, I care only that it’s honest work, meaningful work, and work that turns them on! Work that engages their passion.
Maps of the West are speckled with dead towns — places that shot to fame on a mining boom and fell empty as a spent rocket when the boom burned out. But Park City, Utah, proved that fate was not inevitable and reinvented itself as richer, livelier and certainly more fun to visit than it was in its original model.
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The whole plot of “New Super Mario Bros. Wii” is you play as Mario (or Luigi or Toad) while fighting your way through a magical land of walking mushrooms and winged turtles, en route to finding and saving Princess Peach, who has been kidnapped — for the zillionth time.
Buzzzz. It’s 11 p.m. on a Friday and your phone is vibrating with a new text message. The message contains one thing: the location of a party. Within 10 minutes you are out the door and on your way.