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Looking for fun in Las Vegas at New Year’s? Follow these transportation tips

I’m an amateur when it comes to celebrating the arrival of the new year in the resort corridor. In my more than 20 years as a denizen of Southern Nevada, I’ve spent just two New Year’s Eves among the revelers, estimated this year to be around 332,000 strong.

Don’t be scammed; give wisely

If you are a regular reader of this column you already know that one of my ongoing concerns is that any money you give to nonprofits be used for the best purpose.

 
Countdown clocks have issues, but dancing signal may be helping

After some of the carnage they’ve seen on local streets lately, Warrior readers Don and Chris said all they want for Christmas are a few well-placed countdown signals that have been tested across the country and are in use in some cities in Asia.

UNLV president plans to revive Barrick Lecture Series

Based on how the late Marjorie Barrick’s wishes to keep the Barrick Lecture Series going strong after her death and how the lectures have been allowed to languish, I’m not sure I’d give the UNLV Foundation millions. Presuming I had millions.

Holiday driving tips: See and be seen, learn to play outfield

It’s beginning to look a lot like collision season. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says 20 percent of all collisions take place in shopping center parking lots during the holiday season.

Future of ‘Nevada Week in Review’ remains cloudy

“Nevada Week in Review” is not dead, but it has been on life support since July. That’s longer than expected when it was announced the Vegas PBS show was taking a “summer hiatus.”

Plenty of blame to go around for our unsafe streets

There are all kinds of ways to be safer and last week has proved to us all that we have to do something to get back to paying closer attention to what we’re doing when on the streets.

Lawyer’s poke at Hardesty falls flat

When wealthy Las Vegas attorney Robert Eglet presented an education seminar to more than 200 attorneys and judges and put up a slide showing mug shots of Nevada Supreme Court Chief Justice James Hardesty and mobster Al Capone side by side, some laughed. Others didn’t.

Earlier sunsets bring awareness to headlight law

Be grateful we don’t live in Fairbanks, Alaska. Besides the obvious advantage of living in sunny Southern Nevada’s mild winter climate, we don’t have to use our headlights as much in the winter months.

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