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Archive for March 26, 2006

Where slots in Pennsylvania goes from here: AP; APRIL 5-MAY 3: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board will hold 13 days of hearings in nine locations around the state to take public comment on the 22 applications for a license to operate a slot ...; 8:24 a.m.

FLASHPOINT for Mar 26, 2006: FLASHPOINT for Mar 26, 2006; 7:03 a.m.

Jon Ralston laments the state of state politics, where the best of legislators all want to get out while all the worst do everything they can to stay in: Some people will call Bob Seale a coward.; 7:03 a.m.

Hal Rothman on why, in a city that is all things to all people, the slogan could just as easily be 'I'm OK, you're OK' instead of 'What happens here, stays here': These effete New Yorkers stumbled over a crucial dimension of Las Vegas' success without realizing it.; 7:03 a.m.

Editorial: Our 'do-nothing Congress': The newspaper reported that the House is on a pace to be in session for the fewest number of days since 1948. That just happens to be the same year that President Harry Truman won ...; 7:02 a.m.

Editorial: Drilling specter rears again: He is trying again this year and achieved a measure of success on March 16 when the Senate passed a budget bill containing language that would send the drilling crews and their whole supporting cast ...; 7:02 a.m.

Letter: Violence is at every turn for today's youth: All one has to do to find out why more kids are being arrested on gun-related charges is to look at the current state of cartoons and video games.; 7:02 a.m.

Letter: Bush's global nuclear project a waste of time: This is a hokey idea during wartime and will only benefit nuclear energy, electricity producers who are making record profits.; 7:02 a.m.

Letter: Supreme Court ruling foolhardy, dangerous: This changes the long-standing rule that police could search with the consent of any adult living in the residence. Now your spouse cannot allow the police into your home or apartment without your consent - ...; 7:02 a.m.

Letter: Pitfalls of a multilingual curriculum: Harley Harmon Elementary School Principal Del Bean was quoted in the Sun's March 20 article, headlined "Schools bridging the language divide," as saying that he has not found a downside to this program. The "downside" ...; 7:02 a.m.

Editorial: Telling it on the mountain: According to a recent story in the Las Vegas Sun, the U.S. Forest Service is proposing to open a $53 million complex about halfway up the canyon on a site that once belonged to a ...; 7:01 a.m.

Tom Gorman visits with hard-working magic man Morgan Strebler, who continues his quest to make it to the top of the illusionists' world, the bright lights of the Las Vegas Strip: Morgan told me about his dream five years ago, when we first met. He was a handsome, scrub-faced young kid in blue jeans from Missouri. His magic portfolio included catching speeding bullets in his teeth ...; 7:01 a.m.

Jeff Simpson on why mobile billboards are worse than an eyesore: I'm a relative newcomer to Las Vegas, having arrived here to cover the city's casino gaming business about seven years ago. But in mid-1999 there were no mobile billboards, no shrink-wrapped 14-feet-high, 48-foot-long buses bearing ...; 7:01 a.m.

Benjamin Grove describes the joys and sorrows of covering D.C. and the challenge of moving on: I chuckled at my little joke - a reference to the proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. Only the Las Vegas Sun's sleep-deprived Washington reporter would think that's funny.; 7:01 a.m.

John Katsilometes reports that Clint Holmes plans to keep a hand in educating Clark County students even as his career takes him elsewhere: A headliner at Harrah's (where he landed after a stint at the Golden Nugget) since February 2000, Holmes is all but certain to be leaving the Strip when his Harrah's contract runs its course this ...; 7:01 a.m.

Jack Sheehan on how the inspiring message of longtime Las Vegan Bruce Layne can lift many: We're in a distant war that appears to be heading deeper into a Vietnam-like quagmire, foreigners in nearly every corner of the globe either resent or outright hate our country, political scandals - both national ...; 7:00 a.m.

Trees victim of residents' zeal for view: Prosecutors believe they answered both questions with the November arrest of 58-year-old Douglas Hoffman, who is scheduled to make his first appearance Tuesday in Henderson Justice Court.; 7:00 a.m.

Galardi dishes up dirt on club rival: Jeff German and Steve Kanigher; In their heyday as wealthy strip-club operators, Michael Galardi and Rick Rizzolo were cordial competitors, sometimes meeting to discuss business matters beneficial to both men.; 7:00 a.m.

Major-league pitch a gamble for Vegas: Dan Kulin; Miami: Baseball's Marlins have threatened to relocate unless a new stadium is built. Team officials reportedly have met with as many as six other cities, including Las Vegas, San Antonio and Portland.; 7:00 a.m.

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