As the nation’s leadership transitions to a new administration, some people may fret about what the future holds.
Jesse Rivera loves his children. He and wife Amanda have three.
The group of Republicans gathered atop the velvety ridges of Yucca Mountain. It was a clear day, with perhaps 120 miles of visibility in every direction, from Telescope Peak to Skull Mountain, Jackass Flats to the Paiute Mesa.
Joseph Perez, who suffered head, neck and leg injuries during a 2003 uprising at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, felt overwhelmed after his discharge from the Nevada National Guard’s 72nd Military Police Company.
Federal authorities plan to seek the death penalty against the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that infiltrated the Nevada prison system, but all parties involved in the case have agreed to hold off until the nation’s new administration is in place.
Two boys, ages 12 and 13, sit side by side at a conference table as professor Rebecca Nathanson begins their first session of Kids’ Court School.
Clark County court officials are looking to start a specialty court to help some veterans who get in trouble with the law.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — Las Vegas developer Jim Rhodes’ effort to build a master planned community in northwest Arizona cleared a significant hurdle late Friday night.
SOME REVIEW-JOURNAL READERS believe everyone deserves a piece of the multibillion-dollar federal bailout, even low-level traffic offenders who don’t pay their tickets.
Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan routinely overcome horrid wounds and loss of limb, but equally formidable foes are the mental effects of head injuries, constant or repeated exposure to danger and making decisions of awesome consequence.
After fighting in the Persian Gulf, Somalia and Kosovo, Ron Portillo was diagnosed in 1998 with post-traumatic stress disorder by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Nevada’s governments cannot seriously tackle their growing revenue shortfalls and budget deficits without addressing public employee compensation. Proposals to freeze wages, alter existing contracts with bargaining units or lay workers off are not rooted in resentment. Salaries and benefits consume the lion’s share of the public sector’s general fund resources, and those expenses have been growing faster than tax collections, faster than the population, faster than the economy for the better part of two decades.
While surfing the murky Web last week, I ran across a 2004 commencement address titled “Lay Your Hammer Down” by Edwin J. Feulner of the Heritage Foundation.
One of my fondest yet most frustrating memories of Christmas is the annual Christmas Eve-through-Christmas morning ritual of assembling doll houses, tricycles, bicycles and swing sets. There always seemed to be more parts than I could find use for, and less time than I needed.
The dawn of 2009 brings no symbolic relief for the state’s battered businesses and anxious workers. Economists, entrepreneurs and politicians are bracing for a dismal new year that will claim tens of thousands of jobs, an untold number of companies and force all institutions, private and public, to rethink and re-prioritize their operations.
People “said it would snow in hell before I left the commission,” Bruce Woodbury joked as he wound up his final meeting Wednesday as the state’s longest-serving county commissioner, during the heaviest snowfall the valley has seen in 20 years. “Well, it’s snowing, and some people think Las Vegas is hell.”
You must exercise the mind and body, or they will atrophy.
That our politics should be more about “and” than “or” first occurred to me in the late 1990s.
My relatives in New England are fighting their way out from under a giant ice storm. Here in Las Vegas it’s been snowing all week, several weeks earlier than our usual one-day-a-year photo op of snow and icicles sparkling one of our palm-bedecked golf courses before melting away by afternoon. The National Weather Service calls it “a rare snow event.”
Here are a few of the things in news, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
Paddlewheel cruise boats plying Lake Mead and the Colorado River recall the days before dams controlled the river and created lakes. Sturdy little steamboats served as workhorses on the untamed river of yesteryear. A vital link for remote communities, the boats carried passengers, supplies, draft animals, equipment and the production from area mines and mills. In bygone days, the challenging passage on the river always included elements of danger from shifting sand bars, driftwood, boulders and white-water rapids through narrow canyons.
America’s rinky-dink economy is forcing many of us to go poor, yet we’re armed to the teeth with luxury gadgets. We listen to our $250 iPods. We talk on our $300 mobile phones. And we play video games on our $400 Xbox 360s and PlayStation 3s.
Be bold this year and buy the gardener on your shopping list a gardening gift. It’s true that gardeners are particular when it comes to their gadgets, but I have some suggestions that are guaranteed to please.
The small trinkets hanging on a Christmas tree can mean more to people than the wrapped gifts beneath it.