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Maybe there's something to all this Tea Party hubbub after all.
Fueled by a burst of support from the grass-roots conservative movement, Sharron Angle rocketed into a near dead heat with Sue Lowden in the U.S. Senate Republican primary, according to a new poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Lowden, who had been the Republican front-runner since February, lost support to Angle, who is seen by likely GOP voters as the most conservative candidate in the field.
Danny Tarkanian lost ground to Angle, too. She passed him after gaining a bit of political star power and a bunch of financial support from an endorsement by the Tea Party Express.
Monday
Civil rights leader dies
The Rev. Jesse Scott, a lifelong civil rights leader and former president of the local chapter of the NAACP, died at the age of 90.
The Louisiana-born son of tenant farmers moved to Los Angeles in the 1950s, where he joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
He later met the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and marched and rallied his way to Las Vegas to head the local chapter of the NAACP.
Scott quickly established himself as one of the valley's best-known civil rights leaders.
Tuesday
Group suggests fixes
A study group appointed by state legislators proposes tax hikes and other steps that aim to stabilize the economy and improve the lives of Nevadans over the next 20 years.
The 20-member Nevada Vision Stakeholders Group, in a just-released report, also wants Nevada to push major transportation projects, secure more federal money and strive to bring greater diversity to an economy largely based on the tourism and mining industries.
Wednesday
Mines see golden gains
The price of gold reached a record high as uneasy investors put their money and their trust into the metal.
Gold for June delivery peaked at $1,249.20 an ounce, nearly $22 above the previous record of $1,227.50 set Dec. 3.
The surge was welcome news for Nevada's gold mining industry, which produces nearly 80 percent of the nation's supply of the precious metal.
Thursday
Gibbons' slide goes on
With less than four weeks left before the primary, Gov. Jim Gibbons continues his slide against Brian Sandoval.
According to a statewide Review-Journal poll, Gibbons now trails Sandoval by 18 percentage points, up from a 14-point gap a month ago.
Friday
Money talking in race
In the U.S. Senate contest, third-party groups seem to be influencing the race with a pre-primary Election Day spending spree.
Republican Sue Lowden lost some of her luster after a Democratic Party front group launched $300,000 in TV ads making fun of her for suggesting people could barter with doctors.
Meantime, Republican Sharron Angle moved up in the race, thanks to some $300,000 in ads by the Tea Party Express.
The flood of outside spending is possible because of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that threw out donor limits for third-party groups.
Week In Review
More Information
NUMBERS
0.2
Percent rise in the Las Vegas Valley’s median home price between April 2010 and April 2009. It was the first
year-over-year increase since 2007.
54
The age of Steven Zegrean, who died in prison after serving less than one year of a 90-year sentence for a 2007 shooting spree inside New York-New York.
3.22 million
Visitors to Las Vegas in March, an increase of 0.7 percent over the previous year.
$1,249.20
Per ounce, the new record-high price of gold posted Wednesday amid investor concerns over the outlook
for the euro.
QUOTES
“No one has ever lost this much money in a casino before. He’s the biggest whale of all time.”
Bill Thompson
A UNLV professor who specializes in the gaming industry, talking about Nebraska philanthropist Terrance Watanabe, who is said to have lost $189 million at Caesars Palace and the Rio in 2007. Watanabe is suing Harrah’s Entertainment, claiming the company kept him in a constant state of intoxication during his record losing streak.
“People keep using the term 'at the bottom.’ I think we’re going to be bouncing along the bottom for quite awhile.”
Frank Streshley
Gaming Control Board official, commenting on a less than 1 percent drop in gaming revenues in March after a double-digit gain in February.
“If we could make rabbit wine, we’d be bigger than Gallo.”
Bill Loken
owner of Pahrump Valley Winery, joking about the problem they have with rabbits, which like to eat the grapevines when they are tender young shoots.
“This was a legal fight that a vandal just made personal to 50 million veterans, military personnel and their families.”
Thomas J. Tradewell
National Commander of the VFW, talking about the theft of a metal cross from a rock in Mojave National Preserve less than two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it could remain on federal land as a tribute to American war dead.
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