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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.