Cable cut and the mourning after

There’s nothing more telling of a society’s priorities than condolences. Not just any condolences. Condolences that arrive during nontragic times.

After 18 years as gaming’s face in D.C., Fahrenkopf steps aside

WASHINGTON — The wall of framed photos with political heavyweights from Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher to Barack Obama — reputedly one of the more impressive collections in town accumulated over 30 years — has been taken down.

If winning matters, Puig should be there

The argument for Dodgers rookie outfielder Yasiel Puig making the National League All-Star team dates to Milwaukee in 2002, to a game that ended in controversy and a 7-7 tie.

Food critic tastes trouble with tweet

Local food critic John Curtas is getting called out for his response after tweeting what was taken as a slur by Japanese. Referring to a youtube.com video that features yodeling Japanese singer Takeo Ischi, Curtas tweeted, “The best Jap-German collaboration since 1941.”

UNLV targets creation of drones technology minor

Creech Air Force Base drone crews operate unmanned aircraft in war zones from their Indian Springs location.

The U.S. Geological Survey plans to use less sophisticated drones to spy on Southern Nevada’s mule deer and bighorn sheep later this year.

Viewpoints: Hooked on federal money

On reviewjournal.com today, Stan Veuger of the American Enterprise Institute and Robert Lang and William Brown of UNLV’s Brookings Mountain West address an important topic that generates precious little public debate: Federal funding of state and local government services.

Weidman knocks out Silva at UFC 162, wins middleweight title

Anderson Silva has toyed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s middleweight division for seven years. All of that playing finally caught up with him in the main event of UFC 162 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night.

Beacon Academy caters to at-risk kids

Valedictorian Patrick Casa comes from a military family, and it was in keeping with a proud tradition that upon graduation from high school he was accepted to the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Carpenter Canyon scorched; firefighting forces moved to Kyle Canyon

Crews battling the wildfire that consumed Carpenter Canyon on the west side of the Spring Mountains switched their focus to the small community of Kyle Canyon to the east on Saturday.

Hey, D.C. and Carson City: Las Vegas needs its federal tax money back

Who keeps more of Southern Nevada’s federal tax money — Washington, D.C., or Carson City? Turns out it’s a toss-up. So how do we fix the problem? With D.C., we need to get in the game. With Carson City, we need to change the game.

Everybody wants a piece of federal pie

The Founding Fathers granted the federal government several enumerated powers and a few implied ones. The Supreme Court, in National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius, decided to take that idea a few steps further and granted the federal government the authority to use its taxing power to compel the citizenry to do whatever it wants it to do, as long as it uses certain turns of phrase. But that is only a recent development, and sometimes the unrestrained exercise of raw power is not politically palatable.

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