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6-year-old suspended for kissing girl at school

A 6-year-old boy has been suspended from a Colorado school for kissing a girl on the cheek. School officials in Canon City are accusing the boy of sexual harassment and they want it on his school record.

Expectations are the highest form of respect

Really appreciate your column of Dec. 4 (tinyurl.com/m4sjxoj) … up until the final line, where respect is associated with having high expectations of others. If you respect them, you will have no expectations of them. Respect isn’t about imposing or judging. Those things are the opposite of respect. Respect is about honoring, listening, being open to who the person is right now. Expectations are a form of soft cruelty. They limit the person’s right to wake up as any form of person they choose. They chain a person to other peoples’ “expectations.” True respect is a form of love, of appreciation.

Anthem singer gets it just right at NFR

There was a certain amount of pressure on the young woman who sang the national anthem before the fourth performance of the NFR on Sunday night. And this is why Jackie Schmillen spent most of Sunday in her room at the LVH, making animal noises with her throat.

Nevada Department of Transportation sets minority contracting goal

At least 6.98 percent of construction funds spent by the Department of Transportation in the 2014-16 period should go to minority and women-owned businesses, a state board decided Monday.

 
World leaders, South Africans honor Mandela at memorial service

U.S. President Barack Obama exhorted the world Tuesday to embrace Nelson Mandela’s universal message of peace and justice, electrifying tens of thousands of rain-lashed spectators and prompting a standing ovation by scores of heads of state in a South African stadium.

Bellagio pianist Osborne going back to play for Obamas

The Bellagio’s tuxedoed pianist David Osborne will fly to Washington today to perform for President Barack Obama’s family for the fifth year in a row, on the White House’s Eagle Steinway.

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