I searched for a reason to feel bad about it, mad about it, somehow as an NBA fan (from mid-April on, of course) cheated by it, and couldn’t discover one.
Faith Lutheran girls basketball coach Jennifer Karner outlined a goal for her players Saturday: hold Boulder City to single-digit scoring in every quarter.
After being away for six years, Kevin Barry didn’t want to get back into training world-class boxers full time.
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UNLV knocked Texas Christian out of last season’s Mountain West Conference Tournament, and the Lady Rebels appeared poised Saturday to score another big upset over the same team.
FORT WORTH, Texas — It took some time for Tre’Von Willis to show it, but what he’s doing now is what he always expected. Never has the UNLV junior guard played better basketball.
When the betting lines were posted for last year’s NFL divisional playoffs, my opinions were quickly formed. But both of today’s conference championships require plenty of painstaking thought.
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted last week against an attempt to close the books on the $700 billion financial bailout fund. The vote on the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, came during debate on a bill to allow the government to borrow another $1.9 trillion to meet its obligations.
This is not an attempt to get all political on your asphalt, but are you having trouble figuring out who to believe when it comes to Nevada’s effectiveness in cashing its $201 million stimulus check for transportation projects?
Any lingering questions about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health surely were answered this past week.
Mother Nature sort of rained on CityCenter’s parade last week. Barely a month old, the pristine $8.5 billion project sprang some leaks during a week of record rainfall that surpassed last year’s total of 1.59 inches.
Some prostitutes bear a mark that makes it tough to find other work in any type of economy. It’s hard to explain away a 30-year gap in your resume, harder still to explain an arrest record. A soaring unemployment rate — above 13 percent now in Nevada — makes it difficult for anyone to find a job. For someone like Nicole, it was nearly impossible.
Danielle Nettleton has four plastic bins.
It’s almost midnight. The strip mall across the street, dead. The streets, slick with rain. The traffic lights, green. The guy working the counter at the gas station, grumpy.
RENO — Animal advocates are calling for an independent investigation after the deaths of nine wild horses so far in a government roundup on the range north of Reno.
Republican Sue Lowden knows she must go to rural areas to meet voters on their own turf if she wants to win their support in her campaign to be the next U.S. senator from Nevada. … To take on Harry Reid, the Democratic leader of the Senate, Lowden must first get past nearly a dozen GOP candidates in the June primary election.
RANDOM QUOTES OVERHEARD AT MONDAY’S MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY PARADE, held under dark skies and sporadic sprinkles in downtown Las Vegas:
Between watching and reading about the political atmosphere in this country I cannot help but laugh.
Unionized Clark County employees packed Tuesday’s commission meeting to show solidarity against an advisory report that calls for cuts to their ever-growing wages. … Commissioner Tom Collins … played to his audience, clad in yellow T-shirts, in declaring pay cuts off the table. “If they’re not worth what you’re paying them, then you should fire them,” Mr. Collins said. …
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.