CARSON CITY — Officials for a company that wants to resume mining gold and silver at the site of the historic Comstock Lode in Virginia City has won approval of a necessary permit from state environmental regulators.
It’s not about talent. Wisconsin always was going to be a much better football team than UNLV on Thursday night. Bigger. Stronger. Faster. Better in every imaginable way.
The wide-open desert at Kyle Canyon Road and U.S. Highway 95 would have as many as 9,000 houses, retail properties and a casino under a revised agreement between landowners and Las Vegas officials. Critics say the scaled-back version of an earlier plan still is too much building on nearly 1,700 acres that border the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and are a buffer between Las Vegas and the Mount Charleston area.
Suni Erlanger said when her son was in a foxhole getting shot at he’d be cracking jokes because he wanted to put his fellow soldiers at ease. “Everybody loved him,” the Las Vegas woman said about Army Spc. Douglas J. Green, who was killed Wednesday in Afghanistan.
