One day after a Carson City judge ruled Scott Ashjian would remain on the Nevada ballot for U.S. Senate as a member of the Tea Party, the president of Tea Party organization Anger is Brewing and three others filed an appeal with the Nevada Supreme Court.
Today’s high school students were in kindergarten through the third grade when terrorists attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. Memorials to local victims like Barbara Edwards, a Palo Verde High School teacher who died in the airliner that crashed into the Pentagon, have become more significant for their educational value nine years after the tragedy.
Jim Fassel thinks back on it now and remembers all the eerie feelings after the world changed forever. The United Airlines plane waiting to depart as one he was traveling on landed in Newark early that September day. United Flight 93. Sitting at the next terminal. Loading passengers, all of whom would be dead within a few hours. Just waiting to depart.
To the editor: As a political scientist somewhat familiar with constitutional rights, I had briefly sparred with my unabashed liberal friend via e-mail that building a mosque near Ground Zero — although constitutional and therefore legal — was not the proper path to pursue. He dismissed my argument for its divisiveness, absolute insensitivity and questionable motives. It was about rights, not responsibilities, he argued.
Richard Nolton Sr. had a lethal amount of methamphetamine in his system when Henderson police responded to his home on July 3, but it was a single bullet from a SWAT officer’s rifle that killed him that morning.
If asked how many wins a driver had on the season after 25 races by giving such clues as 1) having led 813 laps with 10 top-five finishes, 2) sitting second in points and 3) having 82 career wins, the easy answer would be three, or maybe even four wins. It would be a good guess based on the information given. But for Jeff Gordon, who boasts all those credentials, he still remains winless in 2010.