Our economy has become so imperiled and the numbers so large that the word million now connotes manageable size and the word billion connotes affordable moderation.
“We like driving the car, and we’re not going to give the steering wheel to anybody but us.”
In this economy, a paid-off pickup is worth more than any showroom stunner. Consumers and businesses are cutting back, newly committed to driving their cars longer. Demand for vehicles has dried up.
A Tennessee corporation wants to build a privately run prison at an industrial park in Storey County, east of Reno and north of Virginia City.
“We are filing this contest to make absolutely sure every valid vote was counted and no one’s was counted more than anyone else’s. … Something greater than expediency is at stake here. Democracy is not a machine. Sometimes it’s messy and inconvenient, and reaching the best conclusion is never quick because speed is not the first objective, fairness is.”
In the past few weeks the newspaper has been getting smaller — due to a decline in advertising lineage.
The “decisions Reid makes this week could become a lasting measure of his tenure as majority leader.”
Experts say police pull over red cars more than any other vehicle. Stoplights and stop signs are also red for a reason. Red catches the eye better than any other color.
The remote corner of Clark County known as Gold Butte remained unknown to most Nevadans until a recently proposed congressional act brought it unusual attention. The long-ignored region lying south of Mesquite, east of the Virgin River and the Overton arm of Lake Mead and west of the Arizona border, may gain recognition and protection under the Gold Butte National Conservation Area Act, HR 7132.
For wife and husband Amanda and Shannon Barr, marriage brought with it a whole set of new, and sometimes expensive, responsibilities.
Thinking of turning over a new leaf for 2009? Try growing your own salad bar and other choice vegetables.
Here is a listing of events designed for book lovers. Information is subject to change or cancellation without notice. Additions or changes to this listing must be submitted at least 10 days in advance of Sunday publication to Bookmark, Las Vegas Review-Journal, P.O. Box 70, Las Vegas, NV 89125. For more information, call 383-0306.
Believe me, I’d rather be playing “Call of Duty: World at War” than “My Word Coach,” because in the online version of “World at War,” I just earned my level-65 general stripes, and that means I finally get to burn up Nazis with a flamethrower. Fire!
After being sidelined by the writers strike last season, “24” (8 p.m. today and Monday, KVVU-TV, Channel 5) is returning to action in a brave new world.
Here are a few of the things in news, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is a film about a man who is aging in reverse. He is born with the metabolism, skin, cataracts, arthritis and relative vitality of a man in his late 80s. His life ends some 90 years later as a newborn.
Your computer files say more about you than you probably want said. And identity thieves are listening closely.
2009 is 11 days old, and that mist you see hanging over the valley is the dust of thousands of ambitious, and now disintegrated, New Year’s resolutions.
Crazy Benny. Sounds like a used-car dealer. And with his red fedora, he looks like a guy who hawks them on TV.
Buzzwords are the “in” thing these days, especially if you’re hanging out at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics show. That’s CES for those in the industry, and probably the buzziest of words if you have a product and you’re looking for coverage and exposure.
BATTLE AHEAD: The Employee Free Choice Act, a federal law that could come before Congress this year, would make it easier to certify unions. Observers say the law would drop barriers to organization that made it tough for unions to pursue smaller companies. Some small-business leaders are concerned.
The departure of Progressive Gaming Chief Financial Officer Heather Rollo may be the final nail in the coffin of the casino technology provider.