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FLASHPOINT for Apr 09, 2007
How fitting that a man who needs a resurrection would want to celebrate The Resurrection with as many people as he can. Gov. Jim Gibbons, crucified by the local and national media during the past few weeks, invited kids to the mansion Sunday to celebrate Easter with him and first lady Dawn Gibbons. The event is patterned after Easter celebrations at the White House, with commemorative eggs that become collector's items handed out to children who attend. Who knows just how valuable those eggs may be someday? An egg from the Gibbons family in celebration of their first Easter in ...
Q+A: Dita Von Teese
Jerry Fink, Las Vegas Sun
What: "Crazy Horse Paris" featuring Dita Von Teese
Grand excuse for a party
The sprawling grandstands and pit suites on either side of the main straightaway on Grand Central Parkway were roughly half-filled. But the general admission stands on the downtown side of the temporary 2.44-mile circuit were jammed. The downtown parking garages were transformed into massive five-story viewing decks teeming with race fans and curious onlookers. And virtually every nook and cranny along the course had dozens of spectators in them who marveled at the speeds of the low-slung Champ cars and cleared their sinus passages with king-sized whiffs of methanol exhaust fumes.
REVIEW: 'SPAMALOT'
By Jerry Fink
They cram a lot into "Spamalot," mostly base humor that probably has Noel Coward spinning in his grave singing, "I'm Not Dead Yet." So much for the droll, sophisticated British comedy of years past.
BC land issues look like no-goes for the ballot
By Mike Trask
Rather than asking voters to decide two major ballot questions with incomplete information before them, Boulder City officials are expected to withdraw the land measures from the June general election.
City gives Neonopolis' owner a shove
It looks as if the city of Las Vegas has finally given up hope that Rohit Joshi and Wirrulla Hayward can turn around the struggling Neonopolis project downtown.
Medicines down the toilet
So it was not exactly comforting to learn, as reported by Cornelia Dean for the New York Times News Service , that the U.S. Geological Survey found that 80 percent of 139 streams it has studied since 1999 contained drug residue. Last summer the agency discovered "intersex" smallmouth and largemouth bass in the Potomac River and its tributaries that were male but carried immature eggs, Dean wrote.
Letter: Leave tuition to private schools
Regarding all-day kindergarten, may I ask how schools can request parents pay tuition to a public school? Doesn't that, in effect, make a public school a private school where tuition is paid?
Acrobat's death might give life to law that protects others
A bill to change a 60-year-old Nevada law that exempts promoters of theatrical performances from providing workers' compensation for players is to go before an Assembly committee today .
Letter: Our president is world's punch line
He drones on about Congress not presenting a troop funding bill before they went on vacation - a bill he has promised to veto for his own political purposes and inflated ego.
Truth in food labeling
The proposal would require foods to carry the irradiated label only when the radiation causes significant changes in taste, texture, odor or shelf life. Radiation kills bacteria in foods but does not make them radioactive. It is effective in preventing bacterial contamination of foods and, along with it, the illnesses such contamination can cause. But radiation treatments also can turn some foods to mush, so the method is not suitable for everything.
Letter: For now, we're stuck with air traffic noise
A letter writer in Thursday's Las Vegas Sun suggested that aircraft be sent directly west to the mountains before turning. Can't be done. The climb rate for most aircraft is too steep to clear the mountains.
Letter: Reid has shamed his constituency
I am ashamed that Reid represents the state of Nevada in the U.S. Senate.
Invitations to ID theft
The 490 computers were either lost or stolen - the IRS isn't sure which - in 387 incidents that were not appropriately reported to the agency's computer security office, a federal inspector general's report shows.
Shackled alcohol abusers can't escape their fate
Robert Fry has a dirty little secret shackled to his ankle. It sits above his work boot, right where the construction worker sweats, right where his buddy could see it and snicker - Fry's little Big Brother, an alcohol monitoring machine that detects any drinks he sinks through the secretions of his skin.
When tacos aren't enough
By Timothy Pratt
Behold the humble taco.
Casinos constantly on lookout for cons
They call them fleas. Casino cons. Guys who buzz around the betting floor, looking for a scam or a cheat or a fleece.

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