New UNLV football coach Bobby Hauck is bringing a new brand of discipline and planning to the Rebels after seven successful years at Montana, who played in three national title games in the former I-AA. Anything close to that kind of success in the Mountain West Conference might make Rebels fans happy. But the very private Hauck is much more than an accomplished football coach.
A single-engine Piper Cherokee airplane struck a car Saturday afternoon on a dirt road in Nye County, but authorities said both the pilot and the car’s driver escaped serious injury.
SO, LAS VEGAS MAYOR OSCAR GOODMAN ISN’T RUNNING for governor. Since he’s a betting man, who would he put money on now that he won’t be in the race?
Miss Virginia Caressa Cameron was crowned Miss America 2010 during a two-hour event Saturday night at Planet Hollywood.
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.
In Nevada’s higher education circles, Jan. 22 is the dividing line. Before that date, higher ed leaders thought the state’s colleges and universities would be forced to endure more cuts, perhaps 6, 8 or 10 percent. Those cuts would be on top of 12.5 percent cuts last year and smaller cuts the year before.
In the Green Valley High School performance of the musical “Rent,” the exotic dancer Mimi flirts with a rock guitarist by asking him if she has the best ass “below 14th Street,” referring to the gritty neighborhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
They’ve grown older without growing up. On their latest disc, “Sorry For Partyin’,” the dudes in power pop cut-ups Bowling For Soup don’t sound very repentant at all.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted last week to raise the limit on how much the government can borrow to keep itself running, a move that while necessary has become highly political.
As any experienced bloom chaser will tell you, it takes more than one storm system — even a soaker of record proportions — to grow wildflowers in the hottest, driest place in North America. Experts at Death Valley National Park are predicting only a moderate bloom this year, despite the storm front that delivered almost a year’s worth of rain to the park’s Furnace Creek weather station several weeks ago.
As a columnist, I often search for the right metaphor. Only rarely does one scurry across a desk leaving pellets in its path. Today, I can say with certainty I smell a rat inside the state Division of Welfare and Supportive Services Professional Development Center at 701 N. Rancho Drive. Not only do employees in the building, once home to a Safeway, smell rats: They see them, hear them, and occasionally clean up after them.
For the Metropolitan Police Department, 2009 closed as its deadliest year. Four officers died, including three in crashes while driving department vehicles. The fatal crashes prompted headlines, a public outcry and a revamp of the agency’s driving policies. Yet beneath all that attention, the department’s safety record on the road has been steadily improving in recent years, according to agency figures on crashes involving its vehicles.
Legendary entertainer Jerry Lewis, on the brink of returning to Broadway in his energetic 80s, is nutty over his latest project.
Palo Verde High School won the Nevada Regional Science Bowl on Saturday at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and earned a trip to Washington, D.C., in late April for the competition’s final.
The process has already dragged on for decades. Now the Southern Nevada Water Authority could be forced to start all over again as it seeks state permits to supply Las Vegas with groundwater piped from across rural Nevada.
When Green Valley High School announced the student production of two controversial plays last year, a number of parents instantly swarmed the decisions. “The Laramie Project” and the musical “Rent” are centered on the issues of HIV, violence, drug abuse and homosexuality. Declaring these topics too mature for high school, the protesters sent the case to court.
Charlie Mitchener, the Las Vegas business owner who was handcuffed and disarmed after presenting a concealed weapons permit along with his driver’s license to a police officer responding to a burglary call at his place of business Jan. 3, has provided me with his Jan. 19 follow-up letter to Metro.
I’m well into my 70s now. I’ve been in and out of the ranching business all my life. I’ve run a lot of horses, trapped coyotes and bobcats, cut post over a good portion of the state of Nevada. And I tell you, I have never been so disgusted.
As recent events have clearly amplified, the average American’s grasp of the content and purpose of the U.S. Constitution is woefully inadequate and too often inaccurate.
Dina Titus is the last person I would have expected to channel Dick Cheney.
Reversing a District Court decision, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the groundwater applications underpinning a multibillion-dollar plan to pipe groundwater to Las Vegas from east central Nevada may not be valid.
Last year, a Review-Journal report exposed the abuse of University Medical Center’s emergency room by 80 illegal immigrants with failing kidneys. The dialysis treatments provided to these noncitizens costs more than $2 million per month, with the bills forwarded to Clark County taxpayers. … Nevada’s congressional delegation agreed the situation demanded a response.
I was glad to see the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada taking on the inequity of Nevada’s mining tax (Jan. 16 Review-Journal). John Winthrop, the early American Puritan, once noted that “the rich and mighty should not eat up the pool.” The mining industry has been eating up Nevada, raking up gross profits while leaving the state little to show for 100 years of exploitation and environmental degradation.
State and local governments must cut more than $1.3 billion in spending to balance their books through June 2011. It’s going to be a brutal process for public employees, whose salaries and benefits consume the vast majority of operational expenses. After more than two years of slumping economic conditions and tax revenue declines, sizable layoffs and pay cuts are unavoidable.
Our last two Democratic presidents have wasted a year each by pursuing the perceived moral imperative of comprehensive health care reform aimed at universal insurance.
Here are some things in news, sports, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
Over the past couple of years, yoga instructor David Oliphant learned two valuable lessons:
Mammoth Lakes, Calif., in the Eastern Sierra Mountain Range, is surrounded by some of our nation’s most spectacular scenery, including the Inyo National Forest and the Ansel Adams and John Muir Wilderness Areas. Sportsmen of one kind or another visit throughout the year, but for the skiers of Southern Nevada, the slopes of Mammoth Mountain have few equals in depth and duration of snow pack and ease of access.
The Verde Canyon Railroad Chocolate Lover’s Festival will feature chocolate, a train and a scenic view.
