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May 4, 2024

Archive for October 22, 2006

A MOMENT CAPTURED
My name is Glendene Grant and my daughter Jessie Foster has been missing in Las Vegas for almost seven months now. My best friend Brenda Rose and I came down to Las Vegas to see ...
9:13 a.m.
John Katsilometes visits 225 acres that will one day be one of the nation's finest shooting parks
On Saturday morning way out on North Decatur Boulevard (drive north until Decatur ends, then drive another mile and there it is), the ceremonial groundbreaking for the Clark County Shooting Park was held. Most in ...
8:05 a.m.
Stuff happens
1992 - "Marriage at Cana," an Italian Renaissance painting by Veronese, was damaged when it fell during restoration at the Louvre in Paris and was torn in five places.
8:05 a.m.
FLASHPOINT for Oct 22, 2006
No one could resist this. So there was no chance the Repub- licans and the bloggers would. Sen. Harry Reid, under fire for a land deal that involved a large profit, was scheduled this weekend ...
8:05 a.m.
Jon Ralston on Tessa Hafen's coming of age in a televised debate
Hafen, a first-time candidate who recently turned 30, has seemed unsure and even a little awkward in previous forums. She also has appeared a little forced in her TV ads, almost as if someone were ...
8:05 a.m.
Hal Rothman wonders whether Jim Gibbons contradicted his campaign on a rainy Friday night
Most amazing about the situation is that Gibbons has based his run on character issues. He has said time and again that he is the most qualified to hold the highest office in the state ...
8:05 a.m.
Editorial: Titus is the clear choice
On the Republican side, candidate Jim Gibbons has been in Washington, D.C., for the past 10 years as a member of the House of Representatives. Gibbons has spent plenty of time in our nation's capital, ...
8:05 a.m.
Letter: This is not our fathers' Republican Party
Actually, the party is no longer the Republican Party; it is a "Conservative" Party that opposes the wishes of the majority regarding use of war and diplomacy, respect for international treaties and the Geneva Conventions. ...
8:04 a.m.
Jack Sheehan on a true hero, Frank Ono, and his acts of courage in Italy that led to the Medal of Honor
Jack Sheehan on a true hero, Frank Ono, and his acts of courage in Italy that led to the Medal of Honor
8:04 a.m.
Letter: Vote for the target of the worst political ads
I then select those commercials that are the most uncivilized, disgusting and contain the most out-of-context inferences and outright lies and distortions. I then mark my ballot so as to vote for the candidate those ...
8:04 a.m.
Letter: Which Gibbons is the more tragic figure?
Those were a Sun reporter's words describing Emily Herrera as she stood by her husband during his trial in April. Now we see Dawn Gibbons, conservatively dressed, beautiful, looking prosperous, smiling broadly, not a care ...
8:04 a.m.
Letter: Note to soldiers: Our freedom already gone
Maybe someone ought to tell them that while they were in another country fighting for our freedom, our House and Senate passed a bill striking down habeas corpus, which was the basis for our most ...
8:04 a.m.
Editorial: Becker has the right stuff
Among her accomplishments, Becker notes that she has helped put in place a number of new procedures to streamline the handling of cases, lowering the number of backlogged cases by 40 percent since 1998, when ...
8:03 a.m.
Some county races get little attention
The re-election bid by Clark County District Attorney David Roger and a contest to elect a new recorder after the prior one was kicked out of office highlight a second tier of countywide races that ...
8:03 a.m.
Ex-aide alleges Porter made illegal fundraising calls
Rep. Jon Porter, R-Nev., made dozens of campaign fundraising phone calls last spring from his district and Washington, D.C., offices, according to a former Porter staffer and e-mails obtained by the Sun.
8:03 a.m.
Giunchigliani, Rory Reid election opponents said to have two chances: Slim and none
The challengers to veteran Assemblywoman Chris Giunchigliani and Clark County Commission Chairman Rory Reid have about as much chance of winning their respective commission contests as the UNLV football team does of playing for the ...
8:03 a.m.
Reid's ethical issues put him on sidelines, for now
WASHINGTON - Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is no Mark Foley, but he bumped the disgraced congressman out of the media spotlight for a few days with his own ethical problems, giving Republicans what one ...
8:03 a.m.
'Of course I wish I'd walked him to his room.'
It's impossible. Anyone who knows him knows it's laughable. This is a man who gets kidded about being so straight. He very rarely drinks, and even then it's a glass of wine with dinner. He ...
8:02 a.m.

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