For as long as I can remember, elected Democrats everywhere have claimed to be devout defenders of “working families.”
In response to Benjamin Spillman’s Friday article, “Ruling expected to bring more political ads to state for 2010 races”: I am honestly at a loss as to why Republicans are in favor of the ruling allowing unions and corporations to finance campaign efforts, and Democrats are opposed.
It was either the end of democracy as we know it, or the restoration of it.
Health care reform could have been about lifting up the health of Americans. Instead, the process became the equivalent of a wolf pack stalking, attacking and killing its prey. Special interests consumed all that could have been good or possible, leaving us with a carcass stripped clean.
In my Jan. 3 column, I projected that Barack Obama would probably not wake up one morning this year, slap his forehead and exclaim that allowing welfare recipients to vote is a blatant conflict of interest which is quickly turning this nation into a collectivist slave state.
Democrats, dazed and confused, sat around at week’s end arguing about how to proceed, or not, on the fading signature of health care. Three schools of thought predominated.
Nevada is hurting, no question about it. Unemployment rose last month to a near-record 13 percent. While housing prices have stabilized, no one expects them to rise again for years. Tourism is steady, but visitors aren’t spending much of their money. Businesses are scrambling to survive. The state and local governments are planning hundreds of millions of dollars worth of budget cuts in response to sagging revenues.
Here are a few things in news, sports, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
Many of us now have drought-tolerant plants and are wondering how to prune them. The late Eric A. Johnson’s “Pruning, Planting & Care” book tells you how to correctly prune more than 300 desert plants. In addition to pruning, the book has other facts about arid west plants. You’ll find it at local bookstores.
Forget CityCenter. Here are some ways to turn Las Vegas around guaranteed not to cannibalize room rates or restaurant reservations.
Celebrity litigator Patty Hewes and high-end escort Hannah Baxter don’t have much in common.
It’s early in the morning on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. And, as is my custom on every MLK Day, I just finished watching the video of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963. For me, it’s tied with Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address as the greatest speech in American history. It gives me shivers.
The truth can be found in simple conversation. My friend David calls and asks, “Hey man, what game are you playing?”
Television host Ina Garten adds walnuts to her endive salad.
At the age of 13, former Green Valley High School student Christian Clemens would ditch school with his friends to smoke marijuana.
Here is a listing of events designed for book lovers. Information is subject to change or cancellation without notice. Additions or changes to this listing must be submitted at least 10 days in advance of Sunday publication to Bookmark, Las Vegas Review-Journal, P.O. Box 70, Las Vegas, NV 89125. For more information, call 383-0306.
Sometime between Jan. 15 and Jan. 17, a deer carcass and an elk hindquarter were dumped near Bassett Lake, north of McGill.
It’s a cliched, but not-undeserved, joke that beauty pageants support such simplistic and crowd-pleasing aims as “world peace.” … But when Christina Keegan takes the stage Saturday in Las Vegas to represent Nevada in the 2010 Miss America competition, she will be there to address an issue that’s as far from world peace as it gets. Sexual assault.
A privately owned zoo flourishes in Moapa Valley’s rural setting, drawing visitors for guided tours of the facility and hands-on acquaintance with many animals in the 160-member menagerie. Where else in our area can you pet a gentle camel, watch agile and amusing otters at play, touch a soft young kangaroo, feed carrots to a zebra or get within inches of porcupines dining on fruits and vegetables?
Among romantic images surrounding small-business ownership — independence, knowing customers by name — perhaps none is more potent than striking it rich based on an idea originally sketched on a cocktail napkin.
MGM Mirage is laying the groundwork for an initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Steve Coffield inherited a government agency in turmoil in September when he was promoted from enforcement supervisor to chief administrative officer of the Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
There was more than 3-D television at the International Consumer Electronics Show this year. Some high-tech, some low-tech and some no-tech. Among the gems were customized earbuds, a video handbag and a supersimple, automatic way to back up your computer files.