Heavy-handed federal regulation of health care has painful consequences at the local level. And we’re not talking about Obamacare here.
The Oct. 15 termination of Las Vegas police officer Jesus Arevalo was supposed to a be a defining moment for the Metropolitan Police Department. An agency with a history of questionable fatal shootings of unarmed civilians, and a lack of accountability resulting from those deaths, for the first time had fired an officer for improper use of deadly force.
The Super Bowl is the only television event of the year when people are genuinely excited about watching commercials, quieting their friends not during the game, but during breaks. Unfortunately, this American pastime has become a target for activists threatening to ban some of the most iconic ads from the airwaves.
The American economy is shifting. In the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the number of business owners who are not wage and salary employees, but instead independent contractors. Since the “end” of the recession, there has been an increase of more than 1.8 million sole proprietors.
Faced with an electorate that’s soured on the health care law, Democrats have settled on a plan to boost their 2014 prospects: an aggressive push to raise the minimum wage, as featured in the president’s State of the Union speech. By making wage hikes a focal point at the ballot box or in a campaign platform, they hope to shift the conversation from Obamacare to old-fashioned class warfare. It may be a cynical strategy, but it’s one the GOP can’t afford to ignore.
Following a four-day trial in federal court, a jury Friday convicted Deon Frederick Smith in the September 2011 armed robbery of a U.S. Bank branch on North Durango Road.
The castle where defense lawyers Oscar Goodman and Harry Claiborne were kings, which saw a string of mobsters pass through and was the site of the infamous Ted Binion murder trial, is half torn down.
Super Bowl weekend is expected to ring up some super numbers in terms of tourism. The game betweeen the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos is expected to draw 292,000 visitors, up 2.5 percent from last year.
This week’s Henderson news highlights include swimmers preparing to plunge into a chilly South Point pool to raise funds for Special Olympics Nevada, the construction of a new Mercedes-Benz of Henderson Sprinter service center and information on the Hearts on Fire Greater Las Vegas Women’s Conference.
Many roads in the valley are named because they sound as if they came from a Zane Grey novel, and at first glance, one might assume Hidden Well Road is in that category. Peg Crockett knows that is not the case.
It turns out Las Vegas driving is just too crazy to be figured out in a single story. Last week’s list of 10 problems only Las Vegas drivers have got so much feedback, we decided there should probably be a Round 2.
President Barack Obama’s current diplomatic effort with Iran is founded upon the hope that its new president, Hassan Rouhani, is in fact moderate and will agree to forfeit Iran’s goal of building nuclear weapons. Obama ought to have first revisited Iran’s most critical position paper — the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It best defines the Iranian regime’s policies and true intentions.
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Important paintings by Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir are among 400 items that will be sold this spring. The sale of Huguette Clark’s collection also has a local connection — her father was a senator who founded Las Vegas.
Clark County is negotiating new contracts with the Service Employees International Union Local 1107, and one major sticking point is management’s desire to eliminate longevity pay for future hires. The SEIU, of course, wants things to continue as if Las Vegas were still in the boom years of a decade ago. News flash: It’s not.
If you are still on the fence about going to see Pink tonight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, here are five good reasons to go.
Las Vegas is getting a new pro sports franchise. World Team Tennis will be putting a team at the Darling Tennis Center this summer as the Las Vegas Neon plays its inaugural season in the eight-team league.
Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California may be named for a tree you can see closer to home, but it also offers some other attractions worth the 200-mile drive from Las Vegas.
Question: I have planter boxes that get hours of direct sun. I’ve tried everything from corn to edamame, grapes, peppers, tomatillo and many others. I have even put up shading, but either there is too much sun or maybe I overwater. I’d like to start now and get a jump on summer.
Clifford J. Lawrence, Lawrence Street’s likeliest namesake, spent 22 years as an educator in the Las Vegas Valley.
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A suspicious powder mailed to several locations in New York and New Jersey, including at least five hotels near the site of Sunday’s Super Bowl, appears not to be dangerous, the FBI said Friday.