Print edition for November 11, 2006

FLASHPOINT for Nov 11, 2006: So here's how it will work in the minds of Democratic rabid dogs and maybe two party leaders, Dina Titus and Tom Collins: Jim Gibbons will take office and be indicted. He won't be governor for long, you see. Then, Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki will take over. But he will get indicted, too - something about state contracts or some such thing. Bear with them. Then, Speaker Barbara Buckley will become governor and all will be well with the party. It could happen. Really. Better to have the black helicopter/blogosphere theorists running the show than to try to win with ...

Letter: Voters' message to judges was clear: To rule that the Constitution was in conflict and therefore overriding the requirement of a supermajority was a joke. If the state government had passed a budget equaling the GNP of the United States and then wanted to raise taxes because they hadn't passed the school budget yet, would it have been the same ruling?

LOOKING IN ON: SOCCER: A passer-by might have thought the UNLV men's soccer team had just won a trophy or earned a spot in an NCAA tournament at 8:55 p.m. last Friday at Peter Johann Memorial Field.

Not in dispute: Phone calls took place: Sam Skolnik, Las Vegas Sun; Pennie Puhek is now the woman in the middle.

Health officials keep a close eye on rats: By Marshall Allen; Click here for a printable graphic.

Editorial: School bus safety: The study shows that 42 percent of the students' injuries happened when school buses crashed with other vehicles. Falls from being jostled after buses made turns or sudden stops were other causes, according to the research released Monday by the Columbus (Ohio) Children's Hospital Center for Injury Research and Policy.

Letter: What a difference a few days can make: Leopold A. Potsiadlo, Las Vegas

THE ELEVATOR: Who's headed toward the penthouse on the local sports scene - and who's getting the shaft.

Editorial: FYI: TNG will be A-OK: This generation of teens and twentysomethings has grown up with keyboards and the Internet at their fingertips. Their friendships and social circles often exist in an alphabet soup of abbreviations - IM (instant messaging), MMB (message me back), TMB (text me back) - and electronic venues that much of the over-40 set just doesn't understand.

Letter: Bush, Cheney should follow Rumsfeld's lead: It is clear he has only one other mandate from the public. Bring our troops home and get out!

Ron Kantowski chats with former Rebels football coach Harvey Hyde about talking sports here and in California: Forfeiting a game for not using ineligible players?

Police call for phone records of those in Gibbons case: Sam Skolnik; By Sam Skolnik

Sitting on a million: Mike Trask, Las Vegas Sun; Steve Bergemann is 49 and on disability, lives in a run-down trailer on the edge of town and spends most of his time lying in bed watching the History Channel and "Stargate SG-1" via his satellite dish.

Editorial: Honoring our veterans: What we now observe as Veterans Day was founded as Armistice Day on Nov. 11, 1918, to commemorate the end of World War I. A year later, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation on the first official Armistice Day that called for a celebration "filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service."

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