What a difference a day makes. President Barack Obama went from a hero deserving Nevada’s gratitude to a bum trying to kill Las Vegas’ economy.
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Every now and again, Alan Stock invites me to join him on his KXNT News Radio morning show to discuss traffic and transportation. After joining Stock last week, I promised to address callers’ traffic-related questions. We are still working on some of the queries, but here are a couple answers I was able to dig up.
In law, victory is a matter of interpretation. Personal injury attorney Glen Lerner agreed Wednesday to a public reprimand and a $5,000 fine from the State Bar of Nevada. Yet when I bumped into Lerner and his attorney, Dominic Gentile, at the Reno airport, Gentile happily declared, “We won.”
On any given Sunday, you can belly up to a Las Vegas bar and down a few shots of Jägermeister. Or stuff 500 dollar bills into the G-string of a stripper. Or place a $1,000 bet on the Saints to win the Super Bowl.
But what if you’re longing to test drive that powerful 2010 Cadillac CTS or Dodge Ram or to sit in a new Chrysler and feel that smooth Corinthian leather? (I know Chrysler hasn’t built the Cordobas with the mythical “fine Corinthian leather” since the ’80s, but Ricardo Montalban made it sound so luxurious that the image sticks with me.)
Anyway, you can’t get into that new car.
Once again, and for the third time, Oscar Goodman isn’t a candidate for governor.
At long last, I have something in common with the under-30 crowd besides an affinity for pizza. I, too, am now getting my news from Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”
Alvida shipped me an interesting incident that happened to a friend in California. She said her friend passed two police officers who were ticketing a motorist on the shoulder of the road. After the man slowed down and passed the two police cars, one of the cops jumped into his vehicle and tracked Alvida’s friend down. He was ticketed for not moving over to the next lane while passing the police.
Alvida’s question: Do you know whether this is a law in Nevada?
If you made a horror movie about Carole Vilardo, she’d be holding a hatchet dripping with blood, while wearing a stylish hat.
This is not an attempt to get all political on your asphalt, but are you having trouble figuring out who to believe when it comes to Nevada’s effectiveness in cashing its $201 million stimulus check for transportation projects?