If you’re in the position to buy a new car, now is a pretty good time.
As term-limited North Las Vegas Mayor Michael Montandon prepares to pursue his dream of becoming Nevada’s next governor, City Council members Shari Buck, William Robinson and Stephanie Smith have announced plans to run for mayor.
People nationwide paused to watch Barack Obama take the presidential oath of office Tuesday, and valley residents were no exception.
Irving Rudd was a pint-sized press agent who was quick with a quip and able to hype a boxing match like no other. I think of him whenever a big fight comes to town.
Two men posing as Clark County firefighters stole two flat-screen TVs from an apartment complex gym earlier this month and Las Vegas police want to know who they are.
Falling property values have generated almost a daily dose of depressing reports, but many people are finding one bright spot amid the gloom: lower taxes.
RENO — A federal judge intends to rule Monday on a complicated legal battle that pits religious and environmental concerns against the economic interests of hundreds of Nevada miners and the world’s biggest gold mining company.
Americans made history last week when Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of these United States.
Barack Obama faced an implausibly contradictory challenge in his inaugural address Tuesday. He needed to celebrate the historic magnificence of an African-American’s becoming president of a nation once of African slaves. But then he had to tell everyone sternly that, uplifting as that was, this same great country faced deep, ominous and largely self-inflicted trouble economically, not to mention diminishment in world reputation.
President Barack Obama hit the ground running on his first full day in office, issuing two memoranda ordering government openness and an executive order removing some obstacles to accessing the records of former presidents.
I see where the newspaper published without notable dissent (lead story, Page 2B, Jan. 16) another one of these cooked-up “report cards” on how Nevada is doing, this one from a Henderson-based outfit calling itself the Children’s Advocacy Alliance.
With each passing day, the massive economic stimulus package being pushed by President Obama and congressional Democrats looks more like the vote-buying slop we’ve come to expect from Washington.
Ironic that on Inauguration Day, when President Barack Obama told Americans it was time to take personal responsibility and “grow up” as a country, some of his supporters behaved like spoiled children in booing George W. Bush.
All the spin, all the exaggerations, all the shrieks and outright lies — it must be time for another session of the Nevada Legislature.
The politically potent Culinary Local 226 says it already has enough signatures to require a popular vote on the City Council’s current scheme to move Las Vegas City Hall to an abandoned casino site six blocks to the southwest — between the Clark County Government Center and the Regional Justice Center.
One show closes and two days later, another opens. That’s the natural ebb and flow of Las Vegas entertainment.
Though the shoulders of mountains be cloaked with ice in much of Cerca Country, there’ll be a hot time in its small towns all month. See if any of these events warm your imagination.
Now is the time to prune most trees and shrubs. Plants are dormant, and you can see more what to nip and save. When done correctly, pruning promotes healthy growth.
When artists began to explore the West in the 1850s, few did it better or more memorably than the fine landscape painters of the Hudson River School. In a continuation of that tradition, three contemporary artists from the Catskill Mountains of New York turned their talents to painting the Southwest, and are showing their work at the Museum of Northern Arizona.
When unexpected opportunity arose to spend a few days outdoors with my three daughters, we invested this windfall of time in a winter visit to Zion National Park. Though we love the park in spring and fall, winter offers an uncommon and stark beauty that is good for the heart.
I have a game writers’ secret to share. Now and then, some publicist for a game company sends me a freebie gift, which I guess is supposed to sway me into writing about the game. This week, I got a crrraaazy freebie in the mail: Omaha steaks.
I seem to be on a tear lately of jumping headlong into the deep end of pools of my ignorance. Activities and endeavors about which I know nothing. Such as learning to dance. Getting clobbered in chess by my 7-year-old son. Skeet shooting. Using my first laptop computer. Vacuuming (I’ve been divorced for nearly three years and I think I finally figured out what was going on with the carpet).
The Nevada Ballet Theatre had its 25th anniversary Black & White Ball, sponsored by Cartier and Wells Fargo and honoring Bette Midler as Woman of the Year, on Jan. 17 at Caesars Palace.
Maybe it’s some weird foraging strand of our DNA, or the same vestigial instinct that makes squirrels store up nuts when they probably could hang around a 7-Eleven and still dine sumptuously all winter.