The improving economy is swinging the pendulum in President Barack Obama’s favor in the 14 states where the presidential election likely will be decided.
LOS ANGELES – Metta World Peace was subdued and contrite, apologizing to Oklahoma City’s James Harden for throwing the elbow that sent them both to the locker room in the second quarter.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – With a quick flick of his wrists, Jarret Stoll sent the Los Angeles Kings on to the second round and the Vancouver Canucks into the offseason a lot sooner than they expected after leading the NHL during the regular season.
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, a Democrat, has been on a crusade over the past few years against for-profit colleges. You know, schools such as the University of Phoenix or the DeVry Institute, educational outfits operated by profit-seeking businesses.
The turnaround in Nevada’s economic recovery may finally be in sight. For years, I have advocated that our public education system will be central to that recovery and to our state’s long overdue economic diversification.
DETROIT – Alberto Gonzalez squared to bunt, hoping to drive in the go-ahead run on a squeeze play. The ball hit his bat and glanced off his right leg before bouncing off the ground and out toward the pitcher.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. – The sun shined brightly on Denny Hamlin at Kansas Speedway.
Over the last several years, as the state’s higher education system has fought against and endured budget cuts, it has been typical for the elected student leaders at the state’s colleges and universities to go along with higher ed leaders and preach against the cuts.
Where have all the tea party followers gone? Separate ways, for some, in the Silver State. Still, hundreds of Southern Nevada members of the 3-year-old anti-tax movement are alive and well and working largely behind the scenes, hoping to elect conservative Republicans in 2012.
Reading independence isn’t common among 2-year-olds, unless they’re like Amanda Marks.
The Smith Center for the Performing Arts has a few kinks to work out. Anyone who has valet parked there knows it, and yes, President and CEO Myron Martin knows it, too.
Britney Spears’ first multiweek deal as a Las Vegas resident headliner is being discussed with the Hard Rock Hotel.
Charles Patrick Mahoney remembers his brush with death on Sept. 18, 1950, like it was yesterday. He will never forget the hell that followed and the six decades he spent trying to figure out why he was different.