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Print edition for September 28, 2006

Cutting the deck on tips
By Liz Benston
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John Katsilometes mingles with some of the potential creatures to be featured in the Fright Dome at Circus Circus Adventuredome
By John Katsilometes
Where one might see nothing more than a kid jacked up on Red Bull wielding a plastic chain saw, Jason Egan sees potential.
Editorial: A 'paper trail' incentive
It took many years but today all of the county's voting machines are so equipped. Many counties around the country, however, still use older electronic machines that cannot provide proof of how people voted in cases of alleged fraud or malfunctions.
LOOKING IN ON: MOTOR SPORTS
Chad McCumbee has been turning heads in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series garage this season - but not always for his performance on the track.
FLASHPOINT for Sep 28, 2006
Remember that cutout of Rep. Jim Gibbons that his primary opponent, state Sen. Bob Beers, lugged around during the gubernatorial primary? He even brought it onto the set during a "Face to Face" appearance. Guess who has the cutout now? State Sen. Dina Titus, Gibbons' general election opponent. Seems before he was 100 percent on board with Gibbons, as his signs now say, Beers called Titus the day after the primary and offered the cardboard figure. Titus was happy to take it and now carries it around in her car. But was Beers that upset about his primary loss that ...
Kantowski Blast from the Past: If John Charles Fremont and Lee Corso could talk football, cannon ...
Oh yeah - he also had a cannon that became a football trophy.
Editorial: Iraq 'snapshot' pretty bleak
President Bush and his top aides pulled their "damage control" cord Sunday after both The New York Times and The Washington Post revealed the existence of a classified federal report concluding that the Iraq war is one reason terrorism by Islamic fanatics is spreading.
Letter: There is no free ride on education funding
Why is it that so many senior citizens think that all of us who are still of working age and paying taxes owe them a free ride? May I ask who paid for their education? And please don't tell me your parents were the sole funding for your schooling. They hardly paid for a fraction of it. That's right, the working class paid their taxes for them to go to school, too.
Letter: A sensible solution to the airport problem
Placing an airport in the Ivanpah Valley between Primm and Jean will produce a regulatory nightmare that will be difficult to overcome, while leaving McCarran International Airport, Nellis Air Force Base and North Las Vegas Airport to putter along as before.
Editorial: Planning for the future
Baby Boomers - people born from 1946 through 1964 - make up about a quarter of the overall U.S. population. By 2020 their ages will be 56 to 74. And many of the nation's communities don't have plans for offering enough of the types of services that will be needed, such as affordable housing, health care, exercise programs and job training, according to "Maturing of America - Getting Communities on Track for an Aging Population."
Paws for Peace
The cargo flight made stops in Manchester, England, and New York before landing in Las Vegas.
Letter: Talk radio is dictated by marketplace
Talk radio takes place in a free-market situation. We have numerous conservatively oriented talk shows because the marketplace supports them. They attract an audience (and paying advertisers) in numbers great enough to give the station a profit.
Vacation nightmare
You are thousands of miles from home in a resort city on holiday, and one member of your vacationing party comes down with a debilitating illness that requires emergency surgery and a lengthy hospital stay.
Audit: Security Institute lacked oversight, focus
A lack of oversight of UNLV's troubled Institute for Security Studies led to a rudderless counterterrorism program without direction or focus, an internal university audit released Wednesday concluded.
Roofer super's super riches: Bigger bucks than boss
By Emily Richmond
Clark County Schools Superintendent Walt Rulffes: $290,000
CLARIFICATION
CLARIFICATION
Local effort, global impact
As a new report comes this week that the Earth is as warm as it has been in 12,000 years, local governments are passing resolutions to cut greenhouse gas emissions and officials here are citing concerns about the effects of global warming.

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