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Print edition for March 26, 2006

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 and local - fill the newspapers and lead the evening news, the government-ordained terror thermometer drifts between yellow and orange and as it goes up so does our blood pressure, Paris Hilton is still making magazine covers, and either bird flu or mad cow disease is certain to kill us all sometime in the next decade.
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.
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.
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 fall. This week he taped two shows at Harrah's to be edited for a PBS special scheduled to air on Aug. 5; a new CD - two albums' worth of material - is also to be released at about the time the special airs.
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.
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.
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.
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 and passing through a sheet of metal.
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 giant advertising messages.
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" I have found with this program is that my choice as a taxpaying parent has been denied. This program is leaving some students behind. My child is taught math in Spanish with a Spanish textbook. And it would be upon me to apply for a zone variance every year and transport my child to a school further away from my house if I want an ...
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.
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 developer who in 1998 ditched plans to build a golf resort because of opposition from residents.
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 - even if you just got through beating her up. And when the police retreat to obtain a warrant, you'll have time to silence your wife or to remove incriminating evidence.
FLASHPOINT for Mar 26, 2006
FLASHPOINT for Mar 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 machine parlor.
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.
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.
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 re-election as he denounced a "do-nothing Congress."
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 into the 1.5-million-acre portion of the refuge set aside by Congress in 1980 as possibly appropriate for oil exploration.

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