WASHINGTON — After an initial misfire, Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma has set his sights on another government agency planning a conference in Las Vegas. This one is for federal cemetery managers.
If there were any good news in Nevada’s estimated $8 billion highway funding shortfall, it’s that the Department of Transportation won’t have any problem spending the state’s $201 million share of federal stimulus funding.
The following is not a misprint: A local hotel-casino construction project has benefited from the economic slowdown and plans to open some components ahead of schedule this year.
In a retail market of rising vacancy and increasing commercial defaults, business partners Mark Berry and Javier Barajas had a plentiful selection of places to open a third Lindo Michoacan restaurant in Las Vegas.
CARSON CITY — The regulatory agency that oversees Nevada’s multibillion-dollar casino industry may lose some veteran staffers in key positions because of proposed state salary and retirement benefit changes, lawmakers were told Friday.
Senior guard Wink Adams scored 18 of his 22 points in the second half to
lead UNLV to a 75-74 victory over Brigham Young tonight at the Thomas &
Mack Center. The crowd of 18,523 at the Thomas & Mack Center marked UNLV’s first sellout since Jan. 23, 1993, in a game against Georgetown.
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IT SEEMS LIKE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YOUR CAREER THAT YOU ARE WEARING THE BAD GUY LABEL, HOW HAS THAT BEEN TO DEAL WITH? “It’s not been too bad. Just been hanging out all week. I did get ripped up quite a bit. I don’t know, it’s kind of different being on that side of it.”