WASHINGTON — The U.S. House voted last week to repeal the 2010 health care law, carrying out a pledge that Republicans made during their successful campaigns to win control of the body in the fall.
The Rebel football team could one day take the field inside a 40,000-seat domed stadium right on UNLV’s campus, if discussions bear fruit between university officials and developers.
The new free speech climate at the Fremont Street Experience means people are free to hand out risque escort service advertisements downtown, even if the city approves a new ordinance about conduct at the tourist attraction.
Las Vegas CityLife Editor Steve Sebelius has been hired to write a political column for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nevada’s largest daily newspaper, Editor Mike Hengel announced today.
CARSON CITY — Brian Patchett, the Easter Seal president in Southern Nevada, worries that mental health services will be on the chopping block Monday when Gov. Brian Sandoval unveils his budget during his State of the State address. Like Patchett, everyone is trying to guess what programs will be on the governor’s “purge” list when he unveils his budget proposal.
Dr. Godwin Maduka, of the Henderson branch office of the Las Vegas Pain Institute, has been accused of leading a militia in attacks in his home village in Nigeria, but he disputes the allegations.
Some of the Best of Las Vegas categories can be tricky. There are bound to be readers who think, “Gee, I don’t know who to pick for Most Generous Las Vegan. No one’s done anything for me lately.”
At first glance, Las Vegas is a dirt-brown moonscape broken by a single strip of overwhelming glare. But beautiful color is not hard to find off the Strip, if you’re willing to look.
Here’s one way to prompt what Doug Lombardi promises will be a “very spirited discussion” among middle school kids. Mention Pluto. Kids still are “very angry about Pluto’s demotion to a dwarf planet,” explains Lombardi, an area science educator and past president of the Southern Nevada Science Teachers Association.
At last, local businesses say they have high hopes for Southern Nevada’s recession-battered economy. A recent online survey from the Review-Journal found that a majority of company owners and managers expect improved sales and a broader economic resurgence in the Las Vegas Valley in 2011.
Rivers Cuomo and Weezer played its second album, 1996’s moody, unflinchingly candid “Pinkerton,” in its entirety in front of a sold-out crowd at Hard Rock’s Joint on Friday.