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Print edition for August 23, 2006

Even with a map, you can still get lost in Las Vegas
Maybe no one knows how fast Las Vegas is growing and expanding and creeping like kudzu across the valley floor - no one knows, not like Troy Plocus knows. He makes maps.
Editorial: Both sides of Las Vegas
But they have more than their jobs in common. Each packed her belongings in a U-Haul for the move to Las Vegas. Each spent her first night at Sunset Station. And, although their moves were separate and a month apart, each woke up on her first morning here to discover that her U-Haul and her belongings had been stolen.
Letter: Controlling campaign funding a good start
It isn't surprising that from the local level to the federal government our politicians are bowing to the developers' wishes rather than the welfare of the people. Our entire political system is corrupted by campaign contributions. That is why campaigns should be taxpayer-funded. Then, more than the corporate wish will be granted.
Jeff Simpson breaks down the reorganization of the pay scale among employees on the casino floor at Wynn Las Vegas, which Steve Wynn called 'upside down'
Wynn Las Vegas dealers - the highest paid in the city at a shade more than $100,000 per year, mostly from tips - will soon lose some of their tip income. Resort executives plan to reorganize the casino floor on Sept. 1, and to begin giving first-level supervisors a cut from the tip pool.
A cup of Joe from a guy named Gil
Some politicians try to win elections one vote at a time.
Editorial: All talk, no action
The United Nations has been soliciting help from member countries for its effort to bring stability to Lebanon by putting some space between Hezbollah and Israel. The United Nations has a 2,000-member force on duty there, and U.N. officials have vowed to send at least 3,500 additional troops, perhaps as many as 15,000, in the coming days.
Poison-control center gets a bitter pill
The Southern Nevada Health District is scrambling to find the almost $500,000 needed to fund its poison-control services after the Health Resources and Services Administration indicated it would no longer subsidize it.
Election subplot: Battle of the sexes
The first woman to hold statewide office in Nevada was a maverick educator-turned-legislator who was appointed to the position in 1962 - an 81-year-old who served out the term as lieutenant governor.
Seattle artist picked to paint Guinn
CARSON CITY - Gov. Kenny Guinn was impressed with how the portrait of former Washington Gov. Gary Locke captured his likeness and qualities - so much so that he has picked the artist to paint his own official portrait.
Letter: NAFTA, CAFTA put nation in jeopardy
Well, the bill is coming due and it has affected us negatively economically and has resulted in a loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs replaced by low-paying service jobs. Now it is going to affect our national security and force us to pay for the CANAMEX highway to further reduce our security.
Editorial: Voters served by debates
Gibbons did condescend to one debate on public television, but only after early voting was well under way. He has begun the general election campaign in much the same way, having skipped Monday night's debate at the Flamingo Library sponsored by Congregation Ner Tamid.
Letter: Conservation beats drilling in the ANWR
Most importantly, more oil would be saved if the Republican Party had not reversed or vetoed every law designed to reduce gasoline consumption by Americans. In fact, the Republican Congress made it illegal for the Environmental Protection Agency to fund, support or conduct any research into methods of increasing gasoline mileage in American cars.
Las Vegas marriage bureau ends 24-hour service
AP
While saving the county money, the change will cost lovebirds the ability to obtain a marriage license in the wee hours and could jeopardize Las Vegas' self-proclaimed standing as the marriage capital of the world.
LOOKING IN ON: GOLF
The UNLV men's golf team is more than two weeks away from opening its fall season, but the program already scored its first big victory.
THE ELEVATOR
Who's headed toward the penthouse on the local sports scene - and who's getting the shaft.
FLASHPOINT for Aug 23, 2006
It has gone mostly unnoticed in the post-primary analysis. But this year the Democrats will have a very different top of the ticket. And for two reasons. First, the two people at the top are demonstrably not native Nevadans. And both are from ... Georgia: Dina Titus and Jack Carter. And gubernatorial contender Titus, who is a longtime Nevadan, sounds less like one than senatorial hopeful Carter, whose accent is less pronounced. The second reason is that the Democratic ticket is as female-heavy at the top as any in memory: Titus, congressional hopefuls Shelley Berkley, Jill Derby and Tessa Hafen, ...
Jon Ralston on what is evident early in the campaign for several top offices
It's not what was said that mattered so much - nothing groundbreaking or revelatory came out of the mouths of candidates for governor, Congress and sheriff. But the styles of the contenders were revealing of the dynamics at play in their races as they took the Flamingo Library stage at an event sponsored by Congregation Ner Tamid.
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