If Manny Pacquiao has said it once, he has said it a million times, or so it seems — he wants to make the people happy. And for the 500,000 inhabitants of Sarangani Province in the Philippines, nothing says happiness like a new hospital. Or jobs.
Just six weeks after Dean Heller announced he would run for the U.S. Senate, he was handed the job on Wednesday, when Gov. Brian Sandoval appointed him to finish Sen. John Ensign’s term.
A word of advice for people who write press releases: Don’t send us a release on Thursday to inform us that Friday is National Hairball Awareness Day. We generally need more than one day to prepare for something like that.
Times are tough when you can’t afford a bus ride. We’re not talking about the passengers who board a coach every day. We’re talking the agency in charge of the Las Vegas Valley’s transportation system, the Regional Transportation Commission.
Cellphone and texting addicts have no reason to fret about Oct. 1 when Nevada is expected to implement a law prohibiting all drivers from texting and using hand-held cellphones. American ingenuity already has developed the technology that will allow drivers to continue to make hands-free calls and even text with little or no inconvenience.
The price tags were almost identical: $240 million and change. The Hoover Dam bypass bridge and the I-15 overhaul both were designed to move traffic more efficiently. But one was viewed as an historic event; the other, a hand-wringing annoyance.
Great Basin College, based in Elko in northeastern Nevada, serves an area the size of Georgia. But the school faces a cloudy future as state budget cuts loom.
Everybody’s head is about to spin. Except mine, the one that’s supposed to. A crowd of 300 mostly adolescents has gathered at the Extreme Thing Sports and Music Festival to witness a performance by one of the founders of break dancing.