Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval’s State of the State address Wednesday was a thoroughly uninspiring cookie-cutter speech that might as well have been phoned in to save everyone the time and trouble.
Looking back over last week’s State of the State speech and the Democratic response, it occurs to me that perhaps the reason Nevada’s Democrats don’t want to come out strongly for new taxes is that they want to appear to be open-minded.
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In ministry, they’re known, usually derisively, as “C&Es,” and if you go to church only when the people outside are dressed as shepherds or when there’s an Easter egg hunt taking place in the parking lot, feel free to count yourself among them.
You can call them retro chicks, femme fatales or the kind of dames that Philip Marlowe would say are “worth a stare.”
Here are a few things in news, entertainment and pop culture that caught our eye last week.
When you grow up in West Valley City, Utah, you become very familiar with the term “snow day.” So familiar, you might take a knee before bedtime and ask the good Lord above to bless you with a beautiful blizzard.
Las Vegas has been pretty good to Don Cheadle over the years. Now, the city is serving as the backdrop to a season-long story arc on “House of Lies” (10 p.m. Sundays, Showtime), the dark comedy that follows a team of unscrupulous management consultants led by the slicker-than-an-oil-spill Marty Kaan.
These aren’t happy days for small companies. And that matters because 60 percent of net new-job growth in Nevada in the last decade came from companies with 20 or fewer workers, according to the National Federation of Independent Business.
The new phenomenon in Las Vegas is the vanishing “shadow inventory” of foreclosed homes being held by the banks, a private-home investor believes.
When Emmanuel Ayim offers a soccer tip or life advice to his fellow players on the Las Vegas Legends professional soccer team, they listen intently.