I just read John Stossel’s op-ed piece (“Price gouging needed after Hurricane Florence,” Wednesday Review-Journal), and he is so correct. If, after a natural disaster, the poor, or others, do not have bread or water and cannot afford it because of price gouging, they should simply eat cake and drink champagne.
The full Senate was set to vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation next week, until Christine Blasey Ford, a California college professor, publicly came forward accusing Kavanaugh of sexual assault in high school 36 years ago (“Kavanaugh accuser talks to newspaper,” Monday Review-Journal). The legal and moral issues are whether the allegation is “probable” or “possible.” Possible means that it may or may not have happened, while probable means it is more likely than not to have happened.
Adrienne Hallock scored in the second half to help Sierra Vista’s girls soccer team salvage a 1-1 home tie with Silverado.
Tyson Tesfamariam had two goals to help Durango’s boys soccer team score a 3-3 home tie with Palo Verde.
Brittany Chavez and Hannah Rivera went 2-0 in doubles help Las Vegas High’s girls tennis team to an 11-7 road victory over Eldorado on Friday afternoon.
The nonprofit Guns To Hammers organization completed more than $20,000 worth of renovations on the home of veteran Ed Wiesing and his wife, Dana Wagner.
Tampa Bay has taken the league by storm behind veteran quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, a Harvard graduate who has thrown for 400 yards and four touchdowns in each of the first two weeks in upsets of the Saints and Eagles.
The event, from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, is free, but tickets are required and must be picked up in person. They are available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Pearson Community Center, 1625 W. Carey Ave.
The planned facility near Executive Airport Drive and St. Rose Parkway would house 1½ indoor football fields, a 200-seat theater, a training center and office space. At 323,000 square-feet, the planned headquarters is about twice the size of the MGM Grand’s casino.
“Pawn Stars” co-star and Gold & Silver Pawn owner Rick Harrison had his photo taken with President Donald Trump during Trump’s rally Thursday at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The person who took the pic was an amateur photographer, but a professional politician: Sen. Dean Heller.
Paul Stone and Wes Reynolds are each 11-4 ATS through the first three weeks of the college football season.
Two members of the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s editorial page staff were honored Thursday for their work shaping public opinion.
Katie Ballou scored with 24 seconds left to lift UNLV past Utah State 1-0 in both teams’ Mountain West-opening women’s soccer match Friday in Logan, Utah.
In the fourth episode of the Fantasy Outlaws, Heidi Fang, Adam Hill and Ed Graney give their opinions on who to pick up from the waiver wire, and who to start and who to sit for Week 3 of the NFL season.
One game does not an All-Pro quarterback make. But Baker Mayfield’s performance Thursday for the Browns was a smash-hit debut, especially for those of us who took Cleveland as a 3-point favorite.
All 17 of Nevada’s counties have joined a new federal information sharing network that election officials say will bolster election cybersecurity and infrastructure ahead of the 2018 midterms.
One by one, members of the Rancho High School color guard placed a red rose onto a white and blue wreath on Friday at Nellis Air Force Base — each representing a Nevadan listed as missing in action in U.S. military conflicts.
As they deal with a spate of students bringing guns to school and a fatal on-campus shooting, district officials also are trying new approaches to discipline to steer problematic students away from prison.
A bid to add sexual harassment prevention guidelines to state gaming regulations is shaping up to be a debate over whether existing federal harassment rules already provide enough oversight for the industry.
Rashaan Melvin used his experience Sunday to record the Raiders’ first interception of the season. But he is very much still learning.
The collapse of Lehman Brothers – an event that shattered the dreams of some of the bank’s employees – stimulated others, to give their true passions a shot. One former employee moved to Las Vegas within a year of Lehman’s collapse to begin building a business.
Goaltender Oscar Dansk was placed on waivers by the Golden Knights on Friday, one day after he started in the team’s preseason victory at Los Angeles.
Locally, rental prices for houses were up 5.7 percent in July from the same month last year, compared to 3 percent year-over-year nationally, housing tracker CoreLogic reported this week.
Nevada Realtors from all over the state volunteered their time and talents this month to help Nevadans in need as part of a Realtors Give Back Day on Sept. 13.
Inspirada, a Henderson master-planned community is partnering with the city of Henderson to bring Inspirada residents and neighboring community members a Neon Ride on Sept. 29.
Pardee Homes’ Luma, off Fort Apache Road north of Sunset Road at Patrick Lane in the southwest valley, features three modern, open, single-story floor plans with options such as second master suites.
Lennar, one of 11 homebuilders building and selling in Summerlin, is actively selling single-family homes in two neighborhoods and a third town home neighborhood in three distinct villages within the master-planned community. Oluna in The Cliffs village and Delano in The Paseos village offer single-family homes while Santa Rosa in The Paseos village offers two collections of town homes, also in The Paseos village.
Woodside Homes has announced the debut of Pinyon Chase, a neighborhood consisting of 110 new homesites in the Skye Canyon in northwest Las Vegas at U.S.
After climbing steadily since 2012, local home prices have been hovering this summer, with a report released this month by the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors showing prices back to where they were in May.
Pulte Homes, one of the nation’s largest homebuilders which has been actively building in Southern Nevada since 1991, recently completed work on a 6,700-square-foot apartment complex encompassing eight units at 497 Calcaterra Circle near Flamingo and Paradise roads in the center of the Las Vegas Valley.
