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Print edition for December 12, 2006

Briare was a cheerleader for Las Vegas
Former Las Vegas Mayor Bill Briare set the standard for those who would follow in that post - that of a walking billboard for the city.
Growing at own pace
By Liz Benston
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LOOKING IN ON: CARSON CITY
CARSON CITY - A $40 million annual tax refund to Southern California Edison has been drawing 6 percent annual interest while a legal fight between the attorney general's office and the Tax Commission plays out.
Speaking to the Latino masses
By Timothy Pratt
When Mary Lou Rodriguez was born in a Los Angeles' county hospital, her mother didn't speak English very well and wasn't up to insisting that her daughter's birth certificate have the Latin spelling, "Marilu."
Dealing with DMV after accident can really wreck your month
By Emily Richmond
Jennifer, my beloved nine-year-old Volkswagen Golf, sustained fatal injuries the day it was struck by a Dodge Ram that blew through a red light.
Former sheriff candidate Bisch sets sights on LV Ward 1
By Abigail Goldman
Not content to abandon her political ambitions, Metro Officer Laurie Bisch announced Monday that she is running a new race: The one-time Clark County sheriff candidate is making a bid for Las Vegas City Council.
Ron Kantowski on Chancellor Jim Rogers' latest letter on athletics at UNLV
But to the higher-ups who sit in the swivel chairs at UNLV, this is probably akin to showing up to work, only to find a film crew from "60 Minutes" camped out in the foyer.
Letter: Voters don't like to be trumped by judges
In the first instance of a justice ignoring the voters, those same voters acted in a way that could not be overruled by a justice - they voted to remove that justice from the Nevada Supreme Court. The question for the voters who supported Question 5 to ask now is this: When is the next election?
Architecture, step by step
What: Frank Gehry Designs
Ex-Hilton PR exec known for 'Star Trek' unveiling
Timothy Leon "Tim" Chanaud, a former Las Vegas Hilton public relations director and a former Las Vegas Sun reporter, died Wednesday in San Francisco after a brief illness. He was 43.
A brief history
Around 1934: Roy Mosgrove, first in Winnipeg and later in the British Ice Hockey League, experiments with a wire-cage mask (like a catcher's mask) designed to protect his eyeglasses, which he wore while playing hockey.
John Katsilometes takes a spin through Revolution, the new Beatles-themed club at the Mirage
At the club's entrance are 10-foot-tall, bright red letters spelling the club's name (with the letters EVOL flipped backward to spell LOVE). Inside the relatively small venue (7,000 square feet with a capacity of 400), hundreds of glass tiles hang from the ceiling, throwing light across the club in a nod to "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds." Interactive tables equipped with small video cameras, which were being installed during our visit, allow clubgoers to have their own tabletop designs that can include anything from assembled drink glasses to items from a purse. The designs are mixed with psychedelic images ...
Those masked men of hockey
Around 1930: Clint Benedict of the Montreal Maroons becomes the first goalie to wear a mask, a crude leather contraption he devised after his nose and cheekbone were injured when he was hit by a puck. Benedict wore it for only two games because it impaired his vision.
FLASHPOINT for Dec 12, 2006
It's not even 2007 yet, but 2008 is right around the corner. And as Nevadas presidential caucus revs up the Democratic Party has pilfered Iowa expertise to help run the second-in-thenation caucus the question is who gets the Culinary Union masses. The National Journal reports "there is no consensus labor candidate." But the publication pointed out that ex-Sen. John Edwards helped the Culinary parent pass minimum wage and other union initiatives. SEIU, which made a showing here recently, "has no horse in the race," National Journal reported. And guess who is about to reach out to labor? Hillary Clinton. And ...
Near death experience
He also was the most interesting of the original Thunder. He had neckties with pigs on them, was paid in horses instead of dollars at contract time and owned and operated an emu farm.
Calendars keep alive memories of black entertainers
What: Historic Black Entertainment Calendar
Letter: Elitists in favor of Electoral College
I agree that the Electoral College should be abolished. The "elitists" love this "system." It allows them to funnel seemingly unlimited funds into the states they know have the highest electoral votes, to get their puppet - i.e., G.W. Bush - elected. No, I don't mean elected, I really mean bought and paid for.
Letter: When does will of the people count first?
John F. Pyne, Boulder City
LOOKING IN ON: HIGHER EDUCATION
The Community College of Southern Nevada has earned an unprecedented, positive accreditation review.
Editorial: Improving government access
So-called "plain talk" has, over the past two years, gradually replaced the state's acronym-peppered government jargon that typical residents could hardly decipher. The word "suspension" has replaced "abeyance." The word "use" has replaced "utilize." And government no longer asks people to "cease" action. It simply tells them to "stop."
Editorial: A hospital in denial
Mary-Anne Miller, the Clark County Commission's attorney, called the contract with Hospitalist Medicine Physicians to provide physicians for the hospital "unusual" because it was without "a real standard provision" - a termination clause, which would allow the hospital to cancel the contract if the company failed to live up to the deal. UMC officials called it an oversight, but given the way the hospital has operated recently, it looks to be part of a disturbing pattern of missteps.
Letter: Smokers take away nonsmokers' choices
Was it my personal choice that made me an asthmatic so that I now have a shortened lifespan? No, it was my mother's personal choice. Was it my kids' personal choice to grow up without a grandmother? No, it was my mother's choice to die at 58 because of lung cancer.
Letter: Incompetence is the mark of Bush's tenure
After four years of mistakes, nothing we try now may stop Iraq's slide into chaos.
Letter: Electoral College set up for good reason
The Fathers thought that states were not just collections of people living within arbitrary boundaries, but were the sovereign and constitutional members of the United States of America. How primitive. Today, we know that borders are meaningless divisions that artificially segregate people and generate animosity. We are enlightened. In fact, the name "United States" should be changed, maybe to something like "The People Living Mostly Between Canada and Mexico."
Editorial: A champion of Las Vegas dies
The Democrat first ran for mayor in 1971, losing to Oran Gragson, who won a fourth term. After defeating now U.S. Sen. Harry Reid in the 1975 mayoral race, Briare went on to nearly match Gragson's longevity in the office, serving three terms, from 1975 to 1987.

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