Balking at a “no amendments” provision, rural representatives in the House on Wednesday narrowly defeated a bill to empower the Food and Drug Administration to set new safety standards for growing and processing food, requiring sharply increased inspections.
Imagine you’re in the car business. You have a problem. Government mandates — aimed at “fuel efficiency” and lots of other high-sounding matters in which Congress is granted no power to meddle by the Constitution — require you to manufacture cars that are more expensive, yet lighter and thus less safe than the cars Americans already have.
In a more sane American political environment, no one, least of all the Republican leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, could get away with accusing the other side of trying to kill old people.
They call them the dog days, this time of year when summer has lasted way too long and it’s way too hot, and when the arrival of fall beckons like a Milk Bone to a famished German shepherd.
At the heart of marriage is the covenant pledge of fidelity.
You won’t see this on CNN, but the world’s top scientists are quietly assembling, crossing political divides and international borders, to confront the greatest menace mankind has ever seen. They’ll enlist only the bravest volunteers, all experts in their chosen fields — think “Armageddon,” just less Michael Bay-ish — in a last-ditch attempt to save humanity. Their mission: Travel back in time to January 2003 and shut down “The Surreal Life” before it gets on the air.
Often, when I interrupted his class, my seventh-grade math teacher asked if I was a comedian. Finally, I have a definitive answer for Mr. Byrnes.
Fall gardening, a plant giveaway and a chance to become a master gardener take center stage this week. Hope you can take advantage of these opportunities.
Here are a few things in news, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
Two news stories are revolving around the release of “NCAA Football ’10” — neither of which has anything to do with the fact that the new game is pretty good but infuriatingly flawed.
Unique among the scores of ghost towns scattered across Nevada, old Berlin in Central Nevada remains the only former boomtown to receive protection as a state park. Created by the Nevada Legislature in 1957, Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park couples the 1890s ghost town with a nearby fossil bed of huge marine reptiles discovered in the 1920s.
The Review-Journal again this year is compiling a directory of Las Vegas Valley bars that cater to fans of specific NFL teams.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of an occasional series of stories highlighting performers who played an interesting role in the history of entertainment in Las Vegas.
I look at the lineup for The Mirage and yawn: Jay Leno, Ray Romano, Brad Garrett, Kevin James. Sometimes they really shake things up and team Romano with James instead of with Garrett.
BUSTED BANKS: The economic slump may mean the end for some community banks. Some observers predict the area will have fewer small, independent banks, regardless of whether the economy rebounds or remains mired in a downturn.
When spinmeisters hyped the “Manhattanization” of Las Vegas, grand plans were announced for about 75 high-rise towers that would deliver 47,500 luxury condominium units to a market saturated with single-family, stucco homes. But now, the fireworks have fizzled. As some analysts predicted, less than 25 percent of the proposed high-rise projects have been completed. The One Las Vegas high-rise condo project, above, has entered foreclosure. A real estate analyst said the high-rise condo craze was partly created by the “mystique” of being in Las Vegas.
Green, more than a color, is a catchall term used to describe an ecoconscious lifestyle, including everything from hybrid-fuel-powered cars to recycled consumer goods to solar electricity. The big-minded concept is to preserve the Earth’s natural resources by reducing waste and pollution through innovative design and improved efficiency. In development circles, green has gone from a boutique idea to a mandatory part of architecture and construction.
Fernando Chui holds the future of Macau’s once burgeoning casino industry.
Lenard Schwartzer recalls that his father, the hard-working owner of a cafeteria in a midtown Manhattan office building, recommended he become a lawyer.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will suspend the “cash for clunkers” program unless the Senate provides $2 billion more for the popular car incentive plan, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said today.
He said he expected the current $1 billion pool to be exhausted tonight. The House approved an additional $2 billion on Friday and the administration is pressing the Senate to go along before its summer vacation begins at week’s end.
