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Print edition for October 15, 2005

Columnist Hal Rothman: Senior power
Hal Rothman
Editor's note: Today's column is the seventh in an eight-part series on the consequences of growth in the Las Vegas Valley
Editorial: Political prime time
For now, election of a female U.S. president remains prime-time fiction. It's not real. It's simply fun to watch.
Editorial: Blowing the whistle on the enemy
"We live in a world where people are leaking things all the time," Justice Stephen Breyer said Wednesday during the high court's review of a lower court's ruling, adding that government employees should not receive blanket protection for speaking up.
Editorial: Bring privacy to AIDS testing
Today the outlook is much brighter. "AIDS is no longer a death sentence," Cade said, adding that 99 percent of the HIV/AIDS patients at the public hospital are outpatients who are living longer lives thanks to new drugs on the market.
Letter: Mobile home owners deserve a solution
Although hampered by limited incomes, most of the retirees, single parents and disabled citizens being displaced hold clear title to their trailers. With no place to re-park them, however, a high percentage of these outmoded dwellings will undoubtedly be demolished where they stand. The owners, presumably, will be free to go.
Letter: Senior citizens overlooked yet again
Some seniors liked listening to the Dennis Bono show on Friday evenings. That's gone.
Letter: Protest by buying satellite radio
After all, as Beasley officials have said, it boils down to a business decision.
ACLU offers help in pot case
Although Boulder City, which accused Warren of selling marijuana out of her home, filed a lawsuit in April to confiscate her house, it also is discussing a deal that would allow her to keep it for a payment of up to $100,000.
D.C. paparazzi hungry at the Harry and Harriet show
Benjamin Grove and Suzanne Struglinski
An anxious phalanx of dozens of photographers, reporters and videographers waited in a second-floor hallway in the Capitol on Oct. 3 for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers to emerge from their private meeting in Reid's office.
Biking at Bootleg
Epic rides
Duly noted for October 15, 2005
NBC has Notre Dame, ESPN has just about everybody else and College Sports TV has ... the Naval Academy? If Roger Staubach had any eligibility remaining or if this were 1963, when Navy was good, then perhaps UNLV's new television partner would have an anchor for its Saturday afternoon programming schedule.
LV Syphilis cases rise dramatically
Molly Ball and Cy Ryan
That's one of the breezy slogans health officials are using to spread the word about an outbreak of the sexually transmitted disease.
Senate gearing up for battle on immigration
By Timothy Pratt
Reid said the proposed federal legislation he thinks would achieve the group's goals is the Kennedy-McCain Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act. The bill includes a temporary worker program, a way for illegal immigrants to earn legal status and measures for securing U.S. borders.
Medicare beneficiaries are facing a host of changes
Michelle Swafford
There are 200,000 Clark County residents and about 42 million other Americans who can sign up for government-subsidized prescription drug coverage as of Jan. 1.
Solution on water no nearer
About all anyone agrees on in Southern Nevada's water debate is this: Las Vegas is about tapped out.
Forging ground in Judaism
It has been a whirlwind two weeks for Rabbi Yocheved Mintz, having celebrated her first Days of Awe as the senior rabbi of her own synagogue.
Flashpoint for Oct. 15, 2005
Flashpoint for Oct. 15, 2005

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