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News Columns
For a few minutes, it was just three women chatting about what we’d do if we were 21 again, entering the job market in today’s newspaper business, instead of in our 50s and already established journalists.
When Barack Obama made his first presidential campaign visit to Las Vegas 19 months ago, I got into it with his press person because there was no access for the local media and while Obama generally opposed Yucca Mountain, there was no answer to my follow-up question: “Then what should the country do with that nasty nuclear waste?”
This week readers want to know whether construction crews need a permit to bring all traffic to a halt while they enter and exit a job site, are there plans to put a sign on southbound Interstate 15 identifying the exit for St. Rose Parkway, and is there a law regarding people handing out religious information in the middle of the street. Also the Road Warrior learns he sometimes needs to use an Elmer Fudd accent to understand a personalized plate.
Fuel taxes are going the way of the stegosaurus, dodo bird and Jean Claude Van Damme’s film career.