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Archive for November 13, 2005

Columnist Jeff Simpson: Why Lanni's legacy may be diversity: By Jeff Simpson; One of MGM Mirage Chairman and Chief Executive Terry Lannis lasting legacies will be his industry-leading efforts to diversify the company's management ranks, contractors and vendors.; 11:10 a.m.

Letter: Outstanding fines a failure of justice: What a fine fix we're in -- taxpayers that is. The amount of dollars reported by Matt Pordum's story on unpaid traffic fines is disgraceful. The justice courts should all be ashamed, and their administrators ...; 10:27 a.m.

Letter: Our public schools are doing great work: With very few exceptions, the teachers, administrators and counselors in the school district have been intelligent, dedicated, well-prepared, effective, accessible and responsive to my children's educational needs. There are many variables besides teacher ability that ...; 10:25 a.m.

Letter: Let's crack down on unpaid traffic fines: Furthermore, far too many people live and work in Nevada and refuse to register their vehicles here because of cost -- and we let them get away with it. Arizona once cracked down and warned ...; 10:21 a.m.

Columnist John Katsilometes: How Miss (Senior) New York topped the competition at the Miss Senior America contest: Helen Halpin McCarney and Ross Perot were both born on June 27, 1930. The similarities appear to end there, as Halpin McCarney was sporting a sash and tiara Saturday night and Perot (to our knowledge) ...; 10:09 a.m.

NLV economic boom isn't universal: Timoth Pratt; On a recent balmy afternoon, James E. Johnson was spreading fertilizer in his front yard as he has every autumn for years.; 9:57 a.m.

Forum's birth year listed as 1955 for good reason: "The Sun Youth Forum put me in front of my peers and taught me that I had something to say and that others would listen. I attribute much of my professional success to that seed ...; 9:56 a.m.

Columnist Tom Gorman: A living time machine: By Tom Gorman; I visited the Clark County Museum the other day to brush up on local history, and for an added dimension I asked Vielet Tracht to join me. We paused at a display about the old ...; 9:02 a.m.

Off-road vehicles face a minor new regulation starting Jan. 1: Cy Ryan Sun; CARSON CITY -- Nevada has hundreds of thousands of off-road vehicles and motorcycles, and virtually no regulation.; 8:49 a.m.

Editorial: NFL star's antics do him in: Owens subsequently apologized to the Eagles for his conduct, but the Eagles were right in not buying it. Still, let's put this in perspective. Owens hasn't been charged with a crime. There are plenty of ...; 8:17 a.m.

Flashpoint for Nov. 13, 2005: Flashpoint for Nov. 13, 2005; 8:16 a.m.

Columnist Jon Ralston:What happens when we take too much initiative: CARSON CITY, February 2015 -- Gov. Barbara Buckley's State of the State speech this week lasted only eight minutes -- two minutes under a time limit passed by voters who enacted the Shut the Governor ...; 8:13 a.m.

Columnist Hal Rothman: Why it's important to stay off TASC: Hal Rothman; Colorado's recent suspension of its Taxpayers' Bill of Rights (TABOR) is the first sign of common sense in a public vote in a long time. Like Proposition 13 in California, passed in 1978, TABOR is ...; 8:12 a.m.

Success of Youth forum is celebrated: As Brian Greenspun was preparing for fall classes at Georgetown University in 1969, his father, then-Las Vegas Sun Publisher Hank Greenspun, phoned him and asked him to hop on a plane to Georgia to receive ...; 8:04 a.m.

519654682.html: Ed Koch Las Vegas Sun; The Sun Youth Forum had been selected as the American Legion Auxiliary's Golden Press Award winner as the nation's best local newspaper program for youths, an award Brian accepted at the group's national convention in ...; 8:02 a.m.

Oversized vans still used by prisons: David Kihara; The Nevada Department of Corrections continues to use 15-passenger vans to transport inmates despite concerns that the vehicles are prone to rolling over.; 7:45 a.m.

A city's growing pains: By Buck Wargo; The third-fastest-growing city in the country, North Las Vegas also is, in many respects, two separate communities.; 7:43 a.m.

Homes now hot commodity: Jennifer Shubinski; Twelve years ago most of Realtor Jennifer Pitterle's clients would tell her they didn't want to live in North Las Vegas.; 7:42 a.m.

Business is booming in NLV: Kevin Rademacher; In the 1980s James York saw builders set their sights on both North Las Vegas and Henderson, two cities with strong industrial roots.; 7:32 a.m.

Letter: What would Jesus do about torture?: Adele VandeHouten; 7:23 a.m.

Editorial: Stop monkeying around: In deciding that the intelligent design concept is not all that smart, the electorate voted in a slate of Democrats and ousted eight Republicans who in October 2004 required that all Dover public school biology ...; 7:23 a.m.

Letter: Intelligent design not smart for school: Intelligent design (also known as creationism), with its many contradictions, should be taught in a religion or philosophy class. The majestic proof of evolution is derived through a convergence of empirical evidence from such diverse ...; 7:23 a.m.

Editorial: Managing a mountain of a job: Members of the groups told the Las Vegas Sun last week that traffic-choked roads up Kyle and Lee canyons, hikers trespassing on private property, damage from off-road-vehicle use in unauthorized areas and a lack of ...; 7:22 a.m.

Columnist Jeff German: On the delicate balance that must be struck between the American people's right to privacy and the government's need to take extraordinary measures in order to protect us: There's no easy formula for deciding how far the government should go when gathering information on Americans to root out terrorists.; 7:08 a.m.

UNLV's oldest building to be partially razed: By Cy Ryan; CARSON CITY -- Maude Frazier Hall at UNLV, the first structure on campus, is going to be partially demolished, rather than renovated.; 7:03 a.m.

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