Print edition for August 21, 2006

Editorial: Guilty! Now go celebrate: U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler lambasted the companies in a 1,742-page ruling released Thursday. The ruling responded to a 1999 lawsuit filed by the Clinton administration, which has undergone numerous filings and modifications over the years.

FLASHPOINT for Aug 21, 2006: Usually you give to someone's campaign and you get access. But imagine donating to get an idea. That's the concept behind a fundraiser for Ross Miller, who is running for secretary of state. The invite for the Sept. 6 event at the Jones Vargas law firm highlights Miller's "one-stop shop" for business transactions with the state. He is proposing consolidating applications for various business services online, which will save businesses money and makes good use of the Internet. The idea even got the much-coveted endorsement on the invite of an unbiased voter - former Gov. Bob Miller, the candidate's dad. ...

Editorial: Getting drunks off roads: Nationally, 16,885 people died in alcohol-related crashes in 2005, down a mere 0.02 percent from 2004. With so much that has been written and spoken about drinking and driving over the past 20 years, such accidents should be decreasing by several percentage points every year.

LOOKING IN ON: BUSINESS: By Liz Benston; Big-time developers have claimed another Strip landmark.

Letter: We all win by harvesting crude from ANWR: Rep. Devin Nunes' bill to dedicate federal revenues generated by minor developments in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to investments in renewable energy technologies is a great idea. It would be a small step toward the day the free world could cease to be a major funding source for worldwide terrorism.

LOOKING IN ON: CITY HALL: Dan Kulin; Las Vegas and one of the city's rougher bars have settled a complaint against the bar with an agreement that calls for the owners to sell within six months and ups the age of those allowed inside to 25, among other conditions.

Casinos eager to deal in Hispanics: By Liz Benston; Major U.S. brands such as Coca-Cola and Ford are doing it. As are Bank of America, AT&T and Microsoft.

John Katsilometes gears up for a shopping spree at a potential Vegas Trump Exchange: Trump's retail plans were related recently when I bumped into our favorite FOTD (Friend Of The Donald), Jack Wishna, at Fellini's on West Charleston Boulevard (this was during the previously reported Hawaiian shirt night at the restaurant that I found so weird). Wishna, the man who helped forge the Trump International deal between Trump and Phil Ruffin in Las Vegas, said he'd just returned from a cross-country trip with Trump.

Jeff Haney learns from authors Frank Scoblete and Stanford Wong how dice can be manipulated by very skillful players into avoiding sevens at a casino craps table: What a select few can do, according to gambling authority Frank Scoblete, is exert enough influence over the dice to throw slightly fewer sevens than expected.

Ron Kantowski on why the Chihuahua Challenge could be more dangerous for the bulls than it is for the riders of the Professional Bull Riders Tour: This weekend, the Professional Bull Riders Tour, which annually crowns its champion in Las Vegas, will head south of the border for the first time for an event called the Chihuahua Challenge.

Letter: Belittling of literacy group unbecoming: As part of APPLE'S executive committee, I must defend our efforts to promote literacy. During Sen. Dina Titus' Democratic primary debate with Henderson Mayor Jim Gibson on "Face to Face With Jon Ralston," she referred derisively to the "little" APPLE literacy program the mayor established within his community. This disparaged the efforts of a lot of community volunteers.

LOOKING IN ON: HIGHER EDUCATION: ELKO - Ah, it's that time of year again, when U.S. News & World Report reminds the university system regents that UNLV is still in the bottom tier of all national universities and that UNR is only a notch above.

Letter: Vice president's words not fit to print: Enough is enough - we welcome an honest debate on the war on terror and our national security, and will no longer stand by while our candidates are needlessly skewered by the unbalanced media coverage of the war and upcoming elections.

Editorial: A healing compromise: When is it OK for a parent to nix conventional, and potentially life-saving, medical treatment for a child?

Stress and easy access to drugs - a dangerous mix: While complaints of all kinds are filed against less than 2 percent of Nevada's more than 24,000 nurses, licensing officials are concerned about what they consider an unacceptable number of violations related to substance abuse, both nationally and statewide.

Mom, he's in my room!: Sam Skolnik; It was the kind of spat children sometimes get into when they move into a new home: Who gets the coolest room? Whose room will be next to mine?