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Archive for July 31, 2006

THE OPENING LINE
I was sitting at my desk trying to remember the last time the Kansas City Royals were any good, when Sam Morris, a Sun photographer, interrupted my John Mayberry flashback by lobbing a baseball my ...
7:25 a.m.
Jeff Haney with the odds on those oddities you won't see on the gridiron
The game marks not only the beginning of the NFL preseason but also the unofficial start of the football betting season.
7:25 a.m.
Ron Kantowski cools off with valley firefighters and policemen who face off on the ice for a game of hockey
"Guns & Hoses." Cops and firemen playing hockey. Or at least skating around the Fiesta Rancho's SoBe Ice Arena with sticks in their hands on a Saturday night.
7:25 a.m.
John Katsilometes has a taste of a sweet proposal when an engaging offer comes written in frosting
That day Funkhouser, owner of the Funk House art and antique store and founder of the downtown First Friday arts fair, was featured in a newspaper story focusing on our city's most eligible singles. But ...
7:25 a.m.
Trifecta Gallery says 'Farewell Jack'
By Kristen Peterson
Jack Endewelt was a methodical and meticulous painter, who zeroed in on guns, vintage aircraft, chocolates, targets and other objects that appealed to him aesthetically.
7:25 a.m.
FLASHPOINT for Jul 31, 2006
So let me get this straight: Bob Beers says Jim Gibbons is a big spender. Jim Gibbons says Bob Beers is a big spender. Dean Heller says Sharron Angle and Dawn Gibbons are big spenders. ...
7:24 a.m.
Editorial: Lottery is not the ticket
An initiative spearheaded by Mark Osterloh, a political activist and an unsuccessful Arizona gubernatorial candidate in 2002, calls for awarding $1 million to one lucky voter in every general election.
7:24 a.m.
Editorial: Let's get it right on horses
Lawmakers had tried to shut down the three foreign-owned U.S. plants that process horses - two in Texas, one in Illinois - with a bill that blocked the use of federal meat inspectors at the ...
7:24 a.m.
Letter: Congressmen turn their backs on democracy
I am surprised and ashamed of the actions of our representatives, Shelley Berkley and Jon Porter, who boycotted the speech in the House of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. I am also surprised that the ...
7:24 a.m.
Letter: Blame Republicans for state of Washington
It's the same in the White House, which Republicans have controlled since President Bush took office in 2001. He is the chief executive officer for our country, and is the commander-in-chief for our military. He ...
7:24 a.m.
Editorial: The many sides of poverty
Las Vegas Sun reporter Marshall Allen profiled such a family last week in a story that told of one couple's efforts to provide food and shelter for themselves and their three children, ages 7, 4 ...
7:23 a.m.
The promise of a Rose Garden
Bills awaiting action in the House
7:23 a.m.
Appointment of Bunker angers water-transfer foes
Gov. Kenny Guinn has appointed a strong advocate of the contentious plan to pump water from rural Nevada to Las Vegas to a team negotiating related water issues with Utah.
7:23 a.m.
Running all alone
By J. Patrick Coolican
BEATTY - Dawn Gibbons is at the Kut-N-Korral, a beauty salon inside a double-wide trailer here, when she offhandedly tells her campaign volunteer Wendy Scarborough that she's flying Wendy up to Reno this week to ...
7:23 a.m.
Request has anti-terror funds targeted for related fields
Suppose you got $1,000 from your uncle to pay the rent, then went out and bought a bedroom set with the money.
7:23 a.m.
Ex-UNLV institute head fears witch hunt
The former executive director of UNLV's Institute for Security Studies says he is concerned that he is being set up to take some of the blame for the recent problems at the counterterrorism organization even ...
7:22 a.m.

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