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Archive for August 15, 2006

This is not your mother's Powder Puff: What: New Mexico Burn at Las Vegas Showgirlz; 7:03 a.m.

FLASHPOINT for Aug 15, 2006: Do people pay attention to what they read? Alas, many do not. And many of them will be choosing primary nominees today. Many candidates, for instance, missed the Aug. 8 filing deadline for campaign contributions ...; 7:03 a.m.

Editorial: Taken for granted: The private nonprofit UNLV Research Foundation is charged with securing money for scientific and technological research. The foundation also oversees the beleaguered Institute for Security Studies, which has received nearly $9 million in public money ...; 7:02 a.m.

Editorial: Letting their guard down: In a letter to Congress, the governors of 51 states and U.S. territories demanded that the National Guard provision be dropped from the version of the National Defense Authorization Act that was recently passed by ...; 7:02 a.m.

Letter: Thankfully, Lieberman has right to run again: Is Mr. Burgess suggesting that Sen. Lieberman doesn't get the message because he chooses to exercise his right to run for office? Or does Mr. Burgess think that because the very few members of one ...; 7:02 a.m.

Letter: Default forced NEA to recover funds: For nearly a decade, the National Endowment for the Arts has given the National Theatre for the Deaf every consideration allowed by law regarding repayment of the 1998 Challenge Grant. We have great regard and ...; 7:02 a.m.

Letter: Bush too preoccupied with war and wealthy: One hears nothing from the White House on the cost of the backbreaking wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with their attendant drain on our nation's wealth. You have not heard one word from President Bush, ...; 7:02 a.m.

Letter: Don't ignore lessons of history: On Dec. 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, inflicting damage and loss of life to U.S. citizens. The U.S. declared war against Japan and attacked Japanese ships and islands that the Japanese had ...; 7:01 a.m.

Editorial: Cease-fire must be enforced: Perhaps the most revealing fact of the war, which began July 12 when Hezbollah terrorists crossed the border and killed three Israeli soldiers and abducted two others, was the quantity and type of arms the ...; 7:01 a.m.

John Katsilometes on an idea whose time (maybe) has come: John Tesh headlining a gospel brunch at Wynn Las Vegas: Far-fetched? The pairing of gospel music and soul food with the person once known as the Whitest Man in America might seem as such. But Tesh provides a persuasive account as to how this could, ...; 7:01 a.m.

LOOKING IN ON: WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON - Patience is waning among Nevada's Democrats in Congress over the Veterans Affairs Department's inability to keep veterans' personal records from being lost or stolen.; 7:01 a.m.

'What happens here' stays with LVCVA: Perhaps saving the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority from one of the more embarrassing deals in its history, a federal judge has officially voided the $1 sale of the tourism agency's most popular marketing ...; 7:00 a.m.

New light on Yucca: By Lisa Mascaro; Slowly and quietly, a 20-year logjam on Yucca Mountain and nuclear energy is breaking.; 7:00 a.m.

Over-the-counter answer when what seemed so right meets the morning after: It could become a familiar ritual, here in Sin City, or maybe just a bad television commercial.; 7:00 a.m.

A look at states with term limits: AP; - Arizona, 8 years; 5:22 a.m.

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