Las Vegas Sun

Archive for August 29, 2006

Game, set, career: 1986; 7:08 a.m.

Braxton not in sync: What: "Toni Braxton: Revealed"; 7:08 a.m.

Editorial: Protect consumers' privacy: With thefts of personal information becoming common, perhaps it is time for a national standard. But the standard should be as strong or stronger than the strongest state law.; 7:08 a.m.

Editorial: Start a new day for energy: For reasons that are becoming archaic, no entity independent of Nevada Power Co. may generate more than 150 kilowatts of renewable energy a year.; 7:08 a.m.

Letter: Let's use the research that has been proven: The editorial gives short shrift to the president's reason for denying government funds for embryonic stem cell research. His moral opposition to the destruction of nascent human life should not be discarded so easily. The ...; 7:08 a.m.

Letter: Sheriff Young right on surveillance: I worked within the gaming industry, being a former employee of a surveillance department, and I know that we can follow an individual all about the casino property and onto the street and watch and ...; 7:07 a.m.

Letter: Bush's Folly hurts us: On the other hand, he says, as long as he is president, we will stay until the "mission" is complete. He fails to adequately define the "mission" so that any intelligent person can understand it ...; 7:07 a.m.

Editorial: New vote not warranted: No, Angle wants a state judge to order a new election because, she claims, some voters in Washoe County were unable to vote. The Reno Gazette-Journal has reported that several dozen people were turned away ...; 7:07 a.m.

John Katsilometes checks in on Rita Rudner's new book, a skewering satire on the Vegas casino scene: By John Katsilometes; Rudner's novel is the set-in-Vegas "Turning the Tables" (Shaye Areheart Books, $23), which is out today and available at bookstores throughout Southern Nevada. We're just getting into an advance copy, but it is clear Rudner's ...; 7:07 a.m.

Black leaders look for bounce off All-Star game: By Timothy Pratt; While hotels, casinos and restaurants on and off the Strip are looking forward to next year's NBA All-Star game in Las Vegas as a source of cash, a group of local black leaders wants to ...; 7:06 a.m.

Weighing in on shedding fat: The Advanced Lipo Dissolve Center in Summerlin markets an alternative to liposuction with the slogan "it doesn't suck."; 7:06 a.m.

California prosecutors say former Las Vegas bishop covered up abuse: The former bishop of the Las Vegas Catholic Diocese faces potential charges in California for failing to report allegations of child sexual abuse by a priest he supervised there.; 7:06 a.m.

Eminent domain balancing act: Nevada voters still are waiting to learn whether the state Supreme Court decides to keep an initiative dealing with the hot-button topic of eminent domain on the November ballot.; 7:06 a.m.

Moving into deeper water: A coalition of regional governments has revised its plan to pay for a massive $750 million public works project, paving the way to send the valley's treated wastewater deep into Lake Mead by 2012 and ...; 7:06 a.m.

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