The Nevada Democratic Party wants to re-take control of the Nevada state Senate for the first time in 18 years.
When you’re not getting paid for it, fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Nevada is off to an impressive start in the solar sweepstakes. In August, UNLV hosted a national clean energy conference. In Boulder City, Solar One is producing thermal solar power. In Las Vegas, Ausra is manufacturing solar plant components.
“Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem.”
The corruption-stained Clark County Commission demonstrated how far it has come — and how far it still has to go — in restoring its reputation when it voted Tuesday to open a lucrative airport concession to competition.
The latest political conceit — the president must be e-mail savvy — deserves all the disdain that can be heaped upon it.
Harry Reid claims John McCain is hotheaded. Names for the opposite of that aren’t as colorful. Is anyone called a “cool head”? But Gilles Ste-Croix could be submitted as the dictionary definition of one.
Like most first- and middle-wave baby boomers, Natalie and Doug Ahlstrom can feel their retirement getting closer and closer all the time.
Here are a few of the things in news, entertainment and pop culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
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A parade of 21- to 40-year-old stay-at-home mothers come to my office and complain of boredom, resentment, depression, loneliness: “I feel like I’m going crazy” … “If I don’t talk to a grown-up soon, I … I …” … “I need some ‘me time.’ “
This is undoubtedly the year of stupid, stupid oil. As you know, 2008 started with Daniel Day-Lewis winning an Oscar for playing a tycoon who kills people for oil in “There Will Be Blood.” Then, gasoline prices skyrocketed. And at the Republican National Convention, people in the crowd literally were screaming, “Oil!”
Flowering annuals will show you a good time with the brightest colors in the plant world. Grow them in sun, shade, underneath shrubs or trees, in borders or in containers of any kind.
Few areas within easy reach of Southern Nevadans offer better displays of autumn’s colored foliage than Southern Utah’s high plateaus forested with dark fir, spruce and pine. Accessible within a half-day’s drive, these tablelands in the fall feature wide amber meadows starred with late summer wildflowers that vie for admiration with stands of white-trunked aspens wearing foliage of gold and orange. Head for the high country soon to take in this natural extravaganza, for by mid-October the best of the high country color will be gone with the falling leaves and frost-blackened flower stalks.
The Review-Journal has extended the deadline for nonprofit groups to submit their holiday bazaar information. Submissions will be accepted through Wednesday .
This being premiere week, there’s a lot of information to get to. So I won’t waste any time before sharing the 10 things you should know about the new fall season.
The public relations machine for the $9.2 billion CityCenter was churning this week. Aria, the project’s centerpiece, topped off. Restaurants and high-tech hotel room enhancements were unveiled.
As a poker dealer at The Orleans, John Hill talks to players almost every day who have come to Las Vegas from faraway states and foreign countries.
While chaperoning a Swedish business delegation on a whirlwind tour of Las Vegas just before Labor Day, Lena Walther may have stumbled on a hot new export for Nevada: The bed tax.
FIXING THE FISCAL HOLES: The state budget is in crisis, but local businesspeople can’t agree on how to fix it. Gaming leaders want nongaming businesses to share the burden, either with a boost in the modified business tax or the adoption of a gross receipts tax. The business community has resisted those requests.