Print edition for September 8, 2006

Rizzolo action may backfire: By Jeff German; The Las Vegas City Council got tough with strip club owner Rick Rizzolo this week - sending a signal that public officials won't tolerate the behavior that led to his criminal troubles.

Letter: President does not speak for everyone: Our secretary of state, Dean Heller, who is the Republican nominee in Nevada's 2nd Congressional District, was quoted as saying, "If we withdraw our troops or set a timetable, it plays into the hands of those that want to harm our country." As comedian Dennis Miller often says, "But then, that's only my opinion, and I can be wrong."

She ran bakery with special family touch: Whether it was putting black frosting on orange Halloween cookies or overseeing the preparation of 5,000 wedding cakes a year, Esther Fried made sure her bakery never lost its special family feeling.

Editorial: Looking to November: Bush and most Republicans want to create special tribunals that have no congressional oversight, in which defendants aren't privy to the evidence being used to prosecute them and in which hearsay and coerced testimony are permitted.

'We are doing something sacred': Only 15 minutes before, a local television crew had been pounding on the locked front door of the House of Deliverance Church in North Las Vegas, chasing news that the congregation was hunkered down inside, awaiting the Apocalypse.

China's rush to gamble has Macau cashing in: By Jeff Simpson; MACAU - As I maneuver down the ferry gangway, dozens of fellow passengers from Hong Kong run by, racing to get into this city.

And this is me with Dina: By J. Patrick Coolican; Dina Titus looked self-assured as she stood next to former Virginia governor and presumed presidential candidate Mark Warner, like the new boss.

ARTS NOTES: "Hifalutin," an exhibit opening tonight at Dust Gallery, brings Lisa Stefanelli and Peter Fox - two abstract painters with uncommon techniques - back to Las Vegas.

Editorial: A moral obligation to help: Five years after the terror attacks it is clear that government officials failed to anticipate the extent of the health effects on the approximately 40,000 responders.

Ron Kantowski has heard of camping out for football tickets before, but this is ridiculous: It wasn't very long and it didn't move very fast.

Letter: Stuckey school would be good for Las Vegas: As Mr. Greenspun stated, Rhythmettes were held in high esteem. Mrs. Stuckey demanded they be role models for the school. These girls were respected for their drill team contributions and, in return, were expected to display exceptional academic traits. Rhythmettes were the best!

Jon Ralston on the cozy setup of commissioner and recorder candidate: Lost amid the hullabaloo of Deane's forcible removal from office is that the race to succeed her features a county employee who also happens to be a commissioner's business partner.

Jeff Haney on an intellectual property rights lawsuit filed by poker players against the World Poker Tour that might be easily dismissed by the court of public opinion: Konik marveled that poker players, of all people, have emerged as the new breed of American heroes:

FLASHPOINT for Sep 08, 2006: All this talk of strip clubs lately - what with G-Sting and the Crazy Horse problems - has Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman thinking again. And that can be a dangerous thing. He told reporters Thursday that he has renewed interest in a red-light district for Las Vegas, somewhere in an industrial area. No, he's not talking cathouses - not yet, he said. But maybe all the clubs should be localized, especially because of the availability of police officers, Goodman mused. And he offered that maybe the strip club ads should be limited to that area, too. So has he ...

Editorial: Rock on, for a fee: Maybe that was the case back in 1973 when, as the Las Vegas Sun reported Thursday, the ailing lead singer for Deep Purple said he was too ill to perform and it caused what the concert promoter described as a "near riot" among concertgoers.

Letter: Salt Lake City mayor stands up for Americans: Rocky Anderson, as Salt Lake City's mayor, spoke from his heart and participated in a demonstration against George W. Bush when the president came to Salt Lake City to address an American Legion convention last week. The president was there also to raise money for Sen. Orrin Hatch. Rocky spoke out against a president who has exhibited abysmal political leadership in thrusting us into a horrible war, has exhibited disregard for the environment, and has practiced a foreign policy that has alienated the world against America. Isn't speaking out against poor political leadership appropriate in our democracy?