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Print edition for January 4, 2006

$91 million set aside for school innovations
CARSON CITY -- Spring Valley High School is asking for $2 million to install innovative educational programs to improve student performance.
Columnist Jeff Haney: On veteran tournament poker player T.J. Cloutier and his significant insight into the game
A highlight from the recent World Poker Tour Boot Camp at the Mirage was having the opportunity to hear veteran tournament professional T.J. Cloutier speak about the game -- especially because he spiked his presentation with vivid examples from his long and colorful career as a professional gambler.
Outlook is grim for small rabbitlike mammals known as pikas
A tiny rabbit-like animal living in the mountains of Nevada appears on the brink of extinction, a new study shows.
Flashpoint for Jan. 4, 2006
Superlatives are so often misused and overused. But as 2006 begins, I believe this is going to be the best, most interesting year since I started covering politics here 20 years ago. A governor's race that has major donors quaking with indecision. Six open constitutional offices. County Commission elections against a backdrop of ex-county commissioners on trial. Two initiatives -- TASC and Prop 13 -- that could forever change the state. The ascension to the second most powerful legislative position by the woman who could become the most powerful woman in state political history -- Barbara Buckley. Don't tell the ...
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Controversial keepsakes
Molly Ball
Hearing an unborn child's heartbeat for the first time. Finding out whether the baby will be a boy or a girl. Seeing it kick, yawn and suck its tiny thumb on a computer monitor.
Man accused of tree cutting described as too feeble
The attorney for a 58-year-old Henderson man accused of cutting trees in an upscale neighborhood said his client is too feeble to have committed the vandalism.
Court rules shoestrings can be deadly weapons
CARSON CITY -- A shoestring can be judged a deadly weapon and can be used to double the sentence for murder, the Nevada Supreme Court has ruled.
Letter: Corruption of power is the real danger
First, it is a little late for the Justice Department to investigate a leak it knew about more than a year ago, a fact obvious because The New York Times had the story that long and held it. Such is the pity, first because we depend on freedom of the press (First Amendment) to protect us, the people, against the inevitable tendency of our leaders to overleap their constitutional bounds.
Editorial: Paying off personal debt sooner
A 2003 directive from the U.S. Treasury Department and other federal banking regulators being phased in this year calls for increasing minimum monthly payments from 2 percent of the total balance to payments that could be as high as 4 percent, depending on the card balance and interest rate.
Agreement is in works on maintaining crosswalks in the valley
By Emily Richmond
Schoolchildren and other pedestrians can relax a little when crossing streets in the valley. Las Vegas and Clark County authorities, embarrassed by a bureaucratic tangle that left an elementary school crossing unpainted for years, are striving for new procedures on crosswalks.
Burglars' haul is more than Rogers' pay
Thieves stole Chancellor Jim Rogers' personal television sets, two valuable prints and several other items sometime late Thursday from the Nevada System of Higher Education's Las Vegas office, system officials said.
County to rule on mountain dwellings
The strange case of the Mount Charleston six single-family homes that were each built to house eight families appears destined for clarification.
Columnist Jon Ralston: Predicting what's in store for Nevada politics in the coming year
Before you put too much stock in the oracular gymnastics to come, consider:
Letter: Well-made 'Brokeback' deserves accolades
The reason for the hype is the fact that the film tells a story of two nonstereotypical gay men falling in love with one another. This is pretty groundbreaking for Hollywood. Both men are very masculine, and there aren't even any campy characters in the film. The two men are played by two high-profile Hollywood actors. They both end up marrying women and having children.
MWC's muscle is in Colorado
Appropriately, the Mountain West Conference basketball tournament will be staged in Colorado in March, since the league's two best teams reside in the Centennial State.
Breakup of School District is supported by Gibbons
CARSON CITY -- Republican Rep. Jim Gibbons' support for the breakup of the Clark County School District put new prominence on an issue that so far has only languished in the Legislature.
Columnist Tom Gorman: On the ugly task of going back to work after the holidays -- and worse, seeing his suffering colleagues
It wasn't easy, dragging myself into work on Tuesday. Unlike people who had to work over New Year's weekend, I had way too much fun and was in no mood to return to my desk.
Editorial: Clearing the air over closed plant
The four utility companies that operate the Mohave Generation Station have known since 1999 that if they didn't complete $1 billion in required pollution control upgrades by the end of 2005, the plant would have to close Jan. 1, which was Sunday.
Jury-selection criticism prompts new trial
The state Supreme Court granted a man a new trial last week, citing articles written by the Las Vegas Sun to raise questions about whether the methods used to select potential jurors "adequately represents the diverse population of Clark County."
Letter: More beneath the surface of oil issue
From what I have read, the oil companies feel that the cost of drilling in Alaska is so prohibitive that they probably would lose money in the venture. So, guess what? Enter the Bush administration with requests for Congress to pass laws that would subsidize the oil companies for their expenses of drilling in Alaska.
Letter: Roadwork must catch up to development
At the present time, between Wigwam Parkway and Cactus Avenue, there are at least four applications before the Clark County Commission for residential buildings in excess of 300 feet high. Each of these buildings will have at least 400 to more than 500 residences.
Letter: Metaphysics has place in argument
The courts have said that any metaphysics does not belong in public school science classes. Science does not take metaphysics into consideration at all -- whether Christian, Buddhist or ancient Greek. That's the whole point.
Fugitive from Indiana found dead at Las Vegas motel
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The man, whose name was not immediately released, was found dead late Tuesday of a self-inflicted gunshot after SWAT officers entered his room at a motel near Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas police officer Jose Montoya said.
Editorial: Six months and counting
In a special report this week by the Associated Press, officials said such an assumption will not be made again. "There has to be a way to apply federal resources when state and local resources are overwhelmed," a federal official involved in revising the plan told the AP. The whole country is a witness to the truth of that statement, as TV images in the days following Hurricane Katrina showed thousands of victims trapped because local rescuers were too overwhelmed to reach them.
Justices rule that rabbi's lawsuit can be heard in court
CARSON CITY -- The Nevada Supreme Court ruled last week that a state court can hear and decide a contract suit between a former rabbi and a Jewish congregation without violating the separation of church and state.

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