Try this in high school or at the mall, and you’d have an all-out brawl.
CARSON CITY — The mood is grim as the Legislature prepares for its biennial session.
Former Henderson Police Chief Richard Perkins was on the city payroll two months this fiscal year, but he stands to pull down nearly $450,000 from City Hall at a time when politicians must slash services or raise taxes as government revenue plummets with the state economy.
When it comes to our cars and roadways, Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie and the Metropolitan Police Department deserve a lot of credit.
CARSON CITY — With the economy in shambles and a report that illegal immigrants are going back home, illegal immigration won’t be a big issue at the 2009 Legislature.
Binion’s Horseshoe Club was never known as a Salvation Army annex, but Benny Binion had a soft spot for the ragged Westside kids who would mill around behind his gambling hall.
Anita Statler, one of the more than 300 people staying at the Shade Tree shelter, had never eaten buffalo meat before Saturday, when a hunting and fishing TV channel teamed up with local volunteers to bring a different kind of meal to some of Southern Nevada’s most needy tummies.
Of the 600 television shows he’s hosted over 20 years, Ed Bernstein‘s most memorable one might be the one that didn’t air.
The number of Clark County School District students not fluent in English grew by 132 percent between 1998 and 2008, but has since leveled off.
Some legislators are forbidden from lobbying colleagues immediately after leaving office, but not former Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins.
Doctors upgraded the medical status of several Chinese tourists and some were released from an Arizona hospital on Saturday, a day after they were involved in a fatal rollover accident south of Hoover Dam.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — A Bullhead City woman who severely abused her 3-year-old son and admitted allowing her roommates to do the same has been sentenced to prison for 121/2 years.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s bid to spark the flagging economy through a combination of tax cuts and infusions of federal spending passed its first major test in Congress last week.
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Orange County investigators say a felon sought for million-dollar Newport Beach burglaries has been arrested in Las Vegas.
When Gov. Jim Gibbons proposed that nearly three-fourths of all the state’s budget cuts should come from its higher education system, Chancellor Jim Rogers had an “uh oh” moment.
Roughly 128,000 Nevadans found themselves out of work last month, according to figures released by state officials.
When you are in the communication business, you come to appreciate the finer aspects of public discourse in a freewheeling democracy. You respect those who engage in debate with facts and figures, who cite precedent, who quote documents and authorities, who turn a clever phrase, who craft a believable forecast, who use logic, allegory and analysis — even if you ultimately disagree.
President Obama insists in public statements that his administration strives for openness and that his policies seek fairness for working families.
You thought the 2007 legislative session was petty and personal? You say the partisan gamesmanship, overtime drama and back-room tax increases of 2003 can’t possibly be repeated? That voters will never endure a more selfish slap from lawmakers than the 1989 veto override to quadruple legislative pensions?
Peggy Brown, a retired local poker dealer whom I’ve known for some years as an upstanding and truthful sort, writes in that her 2003 Dodge Neon was in storage for nine months while she was out of state.
For a country with founding fathers who wanted to keep the government separate from the varied organized practices of religion, there certainly was a whole lot of polarizing praying going on at the inauguration of Barack Obama as president.
He describes his extended family as “like walking into the 1950s … like watching an episode of ‘The Sopranos.’ ” He describes his family as “committed and respectful …”