Print edition for November 13, 2006

THE OPENING LINE: If you're a collector of baseball memorabilia - or you consider it a fashion statement to wear a sports team's jersey - the Las Vegas 51s have a deal for you.

Ron Kantowski on the outgoing head of state's youth sports, who was tough but always fair-minded: In it are all the thank-you notes he has received during his years of tireless service to the sports-playing youth of Nevada. Or as I like to call them, Jerry's Kids.

Editorial: Keep digging for truth: The governor-elect is still dogged by a trio of allegations against him that have yet to be answered in any satisfying way. The classic move of the good-old-boy Nevada political machine would be to simply sweep Gibbons' alleged transgressions under the rug now that he is headed to the Governor's Mansion.

Next week, if it is funny, it is probably in Las Vegas: Many of the nation's top comedians will perform during "The Comedy Festival," which runs Tuesday through Saturday at Caesars Palace.

Builders, city get energy friendly: The City of Las Vegas Green Building Program is not a bizarre new policy to make all of the city's buildings the same color.

Still speaking his mind: Jerry Fink, Las Vegas Sun; What: The Comedy Festival

LOOKING IN ON: MIXED MARTIAL ARTS: By Jeff Haney; What: UFC 66: Liddell vs. Ortiz 2

A MOMENT CAPTURED: Tiffany Brown, Las Vegas Sun; These two empty microphones faced the winners - and losers - at the Democratic election party at Caesars Palace Tuesday night.

Survey provides a glimpse of state's generally happy seniors: The typical Nevadan over 50 visits family and friends two to three times a week, hits the casinos at least weekly, attends a place of worship twice a month and regularly surfs the Internet, according to a UNLV survey that is the most comprehensive study yet of aging Nevadans.

Filling up for the future: By Mark Hansel; The pumps with the peculiar nozzles and large white tanks behind them tell you this is not just another gas station.

Survey center back in business: Named for former U.S. Sen. Howard W. Cannon, D-Nev., and begun in 1977, the center was inactive in 2004 due to leadership changes, and was then transferred from the College of Liberal Arts to UNLV's Educational Outreach Division.

Cost of schools, overcrowding are only expected to get worse: Emily Richmond, Las Vegas Sun; It's 10:40 a.m., the floodgates are about to open and Rancho High School Principal Robert Chesto is struggling to unfold a stack of cafeteria tables in time.

BY THE NUMBERS: 5 percent of residents over the age of 50 are native Nevadans; 60% of the respondents have been here fewer than 20 years

Letter: Media can take steps to curb negative ads: Negative ads were numerous both on the local and national level and the stench the voters had to endure was almost unbearable. What can be done to get past the negativity?

FLASHPOINT for Nov 13, 2006: I saw where last week the Assembly Republicans picked their leadership team. Now this is too good to pass up. So we have Minority Leader Garn Mabey, who thinks he might run against Harry Reid for the U.S. Senate. We have Heidi Gansert, the Reno assemblywoman with little experience, as Mabey's lieutenant. And then we have three veterans as whips - Joe Hardy, Valerie Weber and Pete Goicloechea. Three whips? For a caucus of 15 members that will be largely irrelevant. A 5-to-1 ratio of members to whips. Wow. Those Republicans may not like class-size reduction, but they sure are ...

Editorial: Bush promise rings hollow: In a postelection speech Wednesday, Bush mentioned the need for his administration to "work together" or "work with" the new Democratic leaders two dozen times.

Letter: Problem-solving is in eye of the beholder: But wait, there's more! As soon as the 110th Congress convenes, many more problems will be solved.

Letter: Nevada stays one step behind rest of nation: The bad news, of course, was the barely missed golden opportunity to elect two outstanding, intelligent and hardworking women, Dina Titus and Tessa Hafen, as our next governor and as our next representative to Congress. Nevada may now very well remain, as Titus said during her campaign, "on the top of every bad list and on the bottom of every good list."