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Archive for October 11, 2006

Highlights of August 2006 revenue report on Nevada casinos: AP; -STATEWIDE: $1.06 billion win, up 7.5 percent.; 12:04 p.m.

Jeff Haney on how the Ultimate Poker Challenge is betting it can sit at the table with the big boys: While it might not have the glamour of the World Series of Poker or the World Poker Tour, the Ultimate Poker Challenge has planned an ambitious schedule of 156 shows in the next year capped ...; 7:34 a.m.

LOOKING IN ON: GOLF: What: Frys.com Open; 7:34 a.m.

Musical director Fayne has high hopes for all involved with show: Bill Fayne, Clint Holmes' musical director for more than 30 years, probably would have been happy if the show at Harrah's had continued indefinitely.; 7:34 a.m.

Clint Holmes' swan song at Harrah's is 'bittersweet': It rained the day Clint Holmes began moving his possessions out of his dressing room at Harrah's - paintings, pictures and other memorabilia collected over the past 6 1/2 years.; 7:34 a.m.

Video-gamers grab real guns: They came to the desert for the video game.; 7:33 a.m.

FLASHPOINT for Oct 11, 2006: When DailyKos says you are for real, well ... it really doesn't mean that much. But even though Democratic congressional contender Jill Derby received a nice write-up on the world's largest political blog, she doesn't ...; 7:33 a.m.

Jon Ralston on the gubernatorial debate that wasn't a debate: After the IAP's gubernatorial hopeful Christopher Hansen was ushered off the stage by security, what happened next was surreal, soporific and staged.; 7:33 a.m.

Editorial: Junking the junk food: Just five months after Clinton helped broker a deal with soft drink makers to pull sodas out of schools, five leading junk food manufacturers have made a similar commitment. Clinton, who teamed up with the ...; 7:33 a.m.

Editorial: Tracking our teachers: According to a story by Las Vegas Sun reporter Emily Richmond on Tuesday, substitute teacher Robert G. Stevenson pleaded guilty to the charge about two years ago, but the state Board of Education didn't ban ...; 7:33 a.m.

Letter: School safety precautions seem reasonable: In light of recent school incidents and the talk of having armed teachers, these precautions now look reasonable for the safety of the school students and staff. This is required as long as we have ...; 7:33 a.m.

Letter: Not talking didn't work with N. Korea: His reward? North Korea conducted a nuclear test.; 7:32 a.m.

Letter: Time to genuinely support our troops: Support our troops and support our veterans, particularly our homeless veterans!; 7:32 a.m.

Letter: Letter writer was right on schools: The education establishment will do its damnedest to try to appease groups like the ACLU. They consider any kind of abridgement of people's "rights" as verboten regardless of how it affects the whole picture, and ...; 7:32 a.m.

Editorial: Institute's new direction: A recent internal audit - prompted by a series of Sun stories over the summer that detailed the institute's shortcomings - showed that the institute's leadership had lost sight of its original goals regarding counterterrorism ...; 7:32 a.m.

Concerns over NTS tests 'premature': The CNN video was ominous. It showed an explosion of dust traveling rapidly from an arid, underground blast - and was being used Monday as a background clip on TV to illustrate the grim announcement ...; 7:31 a.m.

INSIDE THE CAMPAIGN: Hafen, in a seemingly overzealous attempt to capitalize on former Rep. Mark Foley's congressional page scandal, sent out a press release Thursday charging in bold print: "Jon Porter calls for Dennis Hastert to resign over ...; 7:31 a.m.

Homeowners resist change: By Mike Trask; Nicole McGeary nearly shed tears as she stood in her dusty back yard speculating about what will happen to the spectacular view.; 7:31 a.m.

How did Charles Augustine die?: By Abigail Goldman; Two men in black suits with cigarettes were stationed outside the Davis Funeral Home and Memorial cemetery Tuesday morning, directing television crews to a far corner of the grounds and positioning a golf cart to ...; 7:31 a.m.

Bank on it becoming more difficult if Pahrump's anti-immigrant act passes: By Timothy Pratt; Members of Nevada's banking community are worried about a proposed ordinance in Pahrump that would make it illegal for them to do business with undocumented immigrants.; 7:30 a.m.

CORRECTIONS: A story in Saturday's Sun said that a lawsuit filed by the police and Culinary unions charged that Clark County Commissioner Lynette Boggs McDonald did not live in her district until Labor Day. In their ...; 7:30 a.m.

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