Upside-down smooching with Kirsten Dunst? Not included, so put away your pucker, pal. Otherwise, this is Spider-Man Central. “I tell people that climbing is dangerous,” says Bill McLemore, manager of the Red Rock Climbing Center, apparently not the savviest salesman until he adds: “It may cause you to quit your job and live in your car — because it’s so addictive and fun.”
Bubbles depend on the happy delusion that prices can only go up, that there will always be a new sucker to pay 10 percent more than you bought something for — on credit, on margin — a week or a month ago.
The vast majority of the populace cannot afford private school tuition, nor can most two-income households get by on a single paycheck so the kids can be home-schooled. Because teacher unions are so effective in killing legislative proposals for tax credits and school vouchers, most children are at the whims of their neighborhood public education monopoly, and if their parents aren’t happy with the results … well, they don’t have a choice, right?
Stephanie Fournier can’t stop kids from growing but she can make it a lot cheaper for parents to keep up.
Silver State Bancorp, the $2 billion-asset holding company for a similarly named Henderson bank, on Thursday disclosed it may not be able to continue as a “going concern” as presidential politics began to swirl around former director Andrew McCain, son of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
Soft-core pornographer Joe Francis has caused casino developer Steve Wynn to go wild.
Developer William Plise agreed with creditors Thursday over most of the amounts owed on the $2 billion City Crossing mixed-use development in Henderson, though the structure of some loans left questions about exact outstanding balances.
The sky is not falling on the nation’s renewable energy industry, a trade group leader says, and, in fact, Nevada’s biggest renewable power resource industries is booming.
