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After some prodding from me, UNLV officials now say they’re sorry they let the Barrick Lecture Series languish for two years, even though the late philanthropist Marjorie Barrick left the university millions to keep it going.
On time? Ahead of schedule?
Strategically, my plan seemed brilliant. If the election in Nevada were swamped with problems, where’s the best place to be? Why with Secretary of State Ross Miller, of course. If all hell broke loose, he’d be in the loop and I’d be there.
Exactly 24 hours after exhorting Nevada voters Monday that victory remained within his reach, U.S. Sen. John McCain congratulated President-elect Barack Obama in one of the finest concession speeches ever delivered.
Advice for Tuesday’s winners: Don’t get puffed up with any false sense of entitlement. Just because voters elected you to office doesn’t mean they believe you deserve any special privileges. Winners need to realize that deep within the smelly swamp of entitlement awaits the potential of indictments.
If you haven’t heard — or are really good at using your remote control to flip off those TV political ads — the country will elect a new president Tuesday.
Mayor Oscar Goodman spent Thursday morning with 400 children at the Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast and it was only 11:30 a.m., so I doubted he was impaired.
Back before he was mayor of Las Vegas, when he was the city’s leading mob attorney, Oscar Goodman insisted he didn’t represent snitches.
He represented Frank Rosenthal. Now that Rosenthal is dead, three former law enforcement sources with first-hand knowledge confirmed what was long suspected. Lefty Rosenthal was an FBI informant, whether his attorney knew it or not.
This week, readers want to know how the law defines running a red light and what the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles will do when it runs through license plates that begin with “Z.” And the Road Warrior offers a special Spook ‘n’ Boo version of Hit ‘n’ Run in preparation for Friday’s scare-fest.