Print edition for November 23, 2006

Erasing school boundaries: By Emily Richmond; Attendance zone boundary lines could evaporate in the Clark County School District's northeast region if a pilot program allowing open enrollment wins support from the 2007 Legislature.

Krolicki has new job but wants old office: CARSON CITY - Does the office make the man? And if so, does it matter whether that office is located on the first or second floor?

Attorneys sued over tax penalties: Sam Skolnik; Two Las Vegas lawyers - who were briefly suspended from serving as temporary judges earlier this decade by the state's Judicial Discipline Commission - have been sued for allegedly negligent behavior that cost their clients more than a million dollars in federal tax penalties.

Brian Greenspun visits the Muslim Uygur minority in China and one of the country's polluted urban areas: We went to Kashgar, a city next to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. It is part of one of China's autonomous regions, which seems to be a designation for huge masses of land and people that the leadership really doesn't know what to do with just yet.

Society's lost souls become UMC's John and Jane Does: By Marshall Allen; Patients who don't have insurance or documentation usually turn to University Medical Center.

Arteries not only things clogged today: By Tony Cook; When most people think of Thanksgiving, turkey and football come to mind.

Letter: Court ruling will keep kids out of Circle Park: Nothing has changed. Homeless advocate Gail Sacco never stopped feeding them at Circle Park, and now more will gather. The residents of the John S. Park and Huntridge communities might as well walk over and get a free meal. Why work or pay taxes? There is no need. We can go to Circle Park and eat, drink alcohol, take baths in the water fountain, have sex in the restroom, vomit in the children's play area, do drugs and enjoy the fine weather.

Editorial: Quiet donor will be missed: Neilsen, 65, took a family stake in two casinos in Jackpot and turned that into one of the nation's best-performing casino companies. Along the way he never forgot to give something back.

Ron Kantowski gives a Thanksgiving reflection on the local sports scene. And pass the pumpkin pie and whipped cream, please: It's Thanksgiving, a time for watching the hired hands wrestle with the Kirstie Alley balloon at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The Detroit Lions wrestle with the idea of playing a football game on national television. And your crazy Uncle Sid wrestle with whatever he can find in the liquor cabinet when the rest of the family is passed out on the couch or in the upstairs guest bedroom with a tryptophan hangover.

Letter: Same old story from Bush administration: It is hardly in the spirit of bipartisanship that the Republicans are willing to let slide five major spending bills so that the Democrats will have to take the heat. This is par for this current Republican leadership.

Editorial: A nation rooted in thanks: What started as a New England tradition in the 17th century drew the support of 19th-century writer and publisher Sarah Josepha Hale, who lobbied the White House in hopes of creating a national holiday that would unite a nation divided by politics.

Letter: Troops needed more on the home front: Now a new regime is in place and we still hear the same old saw - wait six months or a year and things will change. In just the past six months or so there have been significant increases in major crime.

Editorial: Illegal homeless ordinance: In the name of safety and cleaning up the city parks, the City Council passed an ordinance earlier this year that outlaws feeding indigent people in a park. The city defines indigent people as those " who a reasonable ordinary person would believe to be entitled to apply for or receive assistance" under state law.