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Archive for July 4, 2006

Reno airport traffic declines in May
Airport officials said there were 1,000 fewer seats available to Reno travelers in May as airlines reduced flights and the size of aircraft on several routes.
7:47 a.m.
Royster sees 51s strong in second half
Every player on the team's 24-man roster, he said, had the ability to play in the major leagues: "We don't have any 'no-prospect' players on our team."
7:25 a.m.
Picks: Germany, Portugal
Gomez, a Las Vegas native and second-year starter at striker for the Galaxy, bet Paulo Nagamura and Marcelo Saragosa before the World Cup that defending champion Brazil would not advance to Sunday's final in Berlin.
7:25 a.m.
DULY NOTED
Was three weeks of pain worth 40 minutes of pleasure?
7:25 a.m.
Editorial: Public's right to know
The Coalition of Journalists for Open Government, an organization of nine media outlets, examined the public information requests made of 13 Cabinet departments and nine agencies and discovered that a third of all queries were ...
7:25 a.m.
Editorial: Battling the bulge
According to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll conducted in June, 78 percent of participants said they check labels at least occasionally, and 73 percent said that nutrition information influenced their food-buying decisions. But 44 percent said ...
7:25 a.m.
Letter: High court right to uphold American values
Again, the far right has it backward. The decision to disallow President Bush's "kangaroo courts" for the alleged terrorists is what America is all about, and what our rule of law stands for.
7:25 a.m.
Letter: Valedictorian backed by Bill of Rights
Have we now shredded the Bill of Rights to say that if your content is politically correct, you can speak? But if not, we'll shut you down!
7:24 a.m.
Letter: Public school is no place for religion
But why is it so difficult for people like Mr. Carroll to see the difference between state censorship and the need for a school to regulate the expressions of students at a school function?
7:24 a.m.
Editorial: Freedom's ring
Our nation's document of liberation also laid down a fundamental principle, indeed revolutionary at the time, that boldly declared that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable ...
7:24 a.m.
John Katsilometes on how an offhand comment on a national radio show could impact KNPR
Since then, KNPR 88.9-FM has been dealing with a lot of stuff.
7:24 a.m.
Come together with 'Love'
Magic has returned to the former Siegfried & Roy Theatre at the Mirage - in the form of a Magical Mystery Tour.
7:23 a.m.
Fans of the beautiful game mourn Brazil's loss
One by one, mostly women, and then a few guys, began filing out of Inka Torero. Only an hour earlier, the restaurant, on Buffalo Drive between Tropicana Avenue and Flamingo Road, had been a thriving ...
7:23 a.m.
AWAY FROM HOME
In Southern Nevada, they had different jobs, different lives. But in Iraq they are all Army soldiers at war, and today they'll celebrate the Fourth of July from their base 18 miles north of Baghdad.
7:23 a.m.

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