OAKLAND, Calif. – After erasing what once appeared to be an insurmountable deficit, it has come down to this for the Oakland Athletics – one game against the Texas Rangers to decide the American League West title.
Mark Kriegel, author of biographies on Joe Namath and Pete Maravich, has produced his most poignant work yet with “The Good Son,” the story of Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini and how one tragic moment in November 1982 altered the course of two families.
Sometimes all President Barack Obama has to do is look out the window to get a firsthand look at the country’s economic woes.
Barack Obama, who today concludes three days of debate prep at Lake Las Vegas, has come to Nevada more and stayed longer than any president, but he has yet to ride through in a stagecoach. That distinction belongs to Rutherford B. Hayes, in 1880. The aren’t the only presidents to visit.
Ah, presidential debates. Those special times when we learn there was no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, that Sen. Dan Quayle was no Jack Kennedy, that Ronald Reagan refused to take advantage of the youth and inexperience of Walter Mondale, and that George H.W. Bush was, well, kind of bored.
The Southern Nevada Health District conducts random inspections of local restaurants.
