WASHINGTON — The House voted last week to revive a set of federal budget controls in an effort to rein in spending and reduce the deficit.
Proposals to amend the Constitution to require that Congress balance the budget have come and gone for years.
In politics, the old rationalization goes, if everyone’s unhappy, you must be doing something right.
Just as we saw in the last 21/2 years of the Bush administration, the Obama administration obviously has listened to respond, rather than listening to hear.
Barack Obama has come up with a political rehabilitation strategy that’s not bad.
A passel of Nevada politicians tripped over each other in the mad dash to chastise President Barack Obama for yet another cheap shot at the presumed profligacy of a Vegas vacation. But did anyone really listen to the content of his “Father Knows Best” lecture?
President Barack Obama said some interesting things in his Jan. 27 State of the Union address. They’re interesting not so much because they’re lies, but because the political class — the kind of people who field lobbyists in Washington and file lawsuits for the ACLU and edit major American newspapers — was so confident that these utterances were lies that it simply ignored what might otherwise have been some earthshaking developments.
Economic recovery? Only 19 percent of American CEOs expect to increase their work forces in the next six months, while 31 percent are planning to downsize, according to a Business Roundtable survey of executives released Tuesday.
Public employees and their unions have become so practiced in sky-is-falling rhetoric that their reactions to revenue shortfalls amount to stump speeches.
A different kind of teeing off was what Rick Welch came to Angel Park Golf Club for this morning. A leggy company of female golf assistants invited the ad agency owner and avid golfer to try out their latest hire for free.
Decent jobs and part-time income continue to elude tens of thousands of formerly comfortable Nevadans, forcing them into a financial situation they never imagined possible (and still might not be willing to admit to themselves).
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Last Sunday’s column noted the long dry spell awaiting Las Vegas entertainment: Forget about big-buck investments in splashy new shows. This week, it’s only fair to note the flip side: Being broke doesn’t mean you can’t still be creative.
Everybody keeps asking me what new game they should play. I finally have a four-star answer in 2010: “Mass Effect 2.”
If things were different, Paul Hill would be excited about today’s Super Bowl, which pits the New Orleans Saints against the Indianapolis Colts.
Proud of its history, the Nevada town of Mesquite invites visitors to get acquainted with the border town’s past, starting with a visit to its diminutive museum at 35 Mesquite Blvd. Housed in a flat-roofed rock building erected to serve as a library during 1939-41, the Virgin Valley Heritage Museum contains remnants of its past dating back to original settlement by Mormon colonists in the early 1880s. The single-storied museum, later turned into a hospital, was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
Every crisp, sporadic gesture he performs mimics a conductor’s enthusiasm while onstage.
Goodbye, guys selling “Too Close for Comfort” reruns to emerging markets that have yet to discover the joys of Jim J. Bullock.
There is indeed a very short list of moments in time wherein it’s good to be reactive.
Here are a few things in news, entertainment and pop culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
If you have trees that are not growing much, vertical mulching will give them a jump start. It opens up our poor soils to get air and water to the roots, it drains away salts and it gets rid of toxic gases.
For parents who are looking for a low-cost activity in which they can involve their entire family, now’s the time. Friday through Feb. 15 is the Great Backyard Bird Count, sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society.
Clinics In Schools, founded in 2009 by Dr. Noah Kohn, kicked off its inaugural fundraiser on Jan. 21 with a benefit party at Aria’s Golden Lounge.
The Internet has become the de facto place to find answers to just about any question.
Nearly 58 percent of the Review-Journal online business survey’s 100 participants said they believe the worst of the recession has passed, while 41 percent said they expected harder times ahead.