Print edition for December 7, 2007

Jeff Haney on how the Brits in town are squashing the line on the big fight: Floyd Mayweather Jr., the WBC belt-holder who also owns boxing's mythical pound-for-pound title, opened as a minus-330 favorite (risk $3.30 to win $1) against Hatton at all Station Casinos properties.

Judges rethink upgrade, taxpayers clean up: A second look at how the courts' budget helped save Clark County taxpayers more than $2 million this week:

Editorial: Nuclear mistakes: NNSA officials have acknowledged some problems and said they have improved oversight. But they also rationalized the report's findings, which since 2000 recorded 60 serious accidents and incidents, including a laser injury and the radiation of several workers.

Stretching out the fun time: By Liz Benston; Consider this year's introduction of a machine feature called "Guaranteed Play."

Jon Ralston is befuddled by Gibbons' 'decisionary process': By Jon Ralston; "What we've gone through is kind of a decisionary process," Gibbons told Gillan. Many of you may not understand what a "decisionary process" is, its absence from the English language being a slight impediment to comprehension.

Q+A: ROBERT SCHIMMEL: It isn't by chance that comedian Robert Schimmel has engagements at the Monte Carlo every year during the weeks of June 5 and Dec. 12.

LOOKING IN ON: SUBURBS: By Mike Trask; No, she didn't embezzle the group's money. Nor did she burn its files in an act of defiance. It's worse than that.

Letter: Don't fool us twice with amnesty: While employing platitudes such as "Do unto others ..." she should remember another: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

Letter: NRC neutral, not advocate, in Yucca decision: The NRC is neither for nor against the proposed repository. This agency will evaluate the Energy Department's application - if and when we get it - according to a number of scientific disciplines and will issue the department a license if - and only if - the application meets the legal and technical requirements to dispose of the waste safely while protecting people and the environment.

Letter: Immigration debate often ignores facts: Many undocumented immigrants do pay taxes without stealing someone's identity. You do not have to have a Social Security number to do so. All you need is a taxpayer identification number. The feds hand them out.

PROGRESS (AT A PRICE): Phoebe Sweet, Las Vegas Sun; As debate over construction of coal-fired power plants in Nevada rages on and new costs pile up, it remains unclear to regulators, environmentalists and even utility executives how expensive new coal power ultimately will be.

Editorial: Irresponsible proposal: In the 1980s two drugs approved to treat irregular heartbeats were used off-label to treat patients who had suffered heart attacks after articles appeared in medical journals touting the treatment. Later studies, however, showed patients using those drugs after heart attacks had a death rate twice as high as those on placebos.

A view of World War II from the home front: By Emily Richmond; "Extra, extra! Read all about it! Pearl Harbor attacked!"

New library coming after long wait: By Mike Trask; Maybe they will name it the It's About Time Library.

FLASHPOINT: The Los Angeles Times has returned. The national newspaper has written about Sen. Harry Reid and lobbying and alleged corruption in the state's judicial system. This week the paper detailed horrific conditions at the Ely prison, with reports of prisoners denied medical care. It "amounts to the grossest possible medical malpractice and the most shocking and callous disregard for human life and human suffering that I have ever encountered," the author of a report told state officials. Rather than worry about whether someone in L.A. doesn't like us, maybe, with budget cuts looming that could gut human services and with ...

All the Joy and Wayne: By John Katsilometes; The car sits stationary, gleaming in the sun, but the wheels in Wayne’s Newton’s brain are spinning, burning rubber. His Rolls-Royce is dented. It’s the slightest imperfection, no larger than a dime, appearing as if someone has pressed a thumb hard into the car’s fender. The disfigurement is so indecipherable that it has long escaped notice by dozens of discriminating eyes that tend to the structures, vast menagerie and exotic vehicles at his home, Casa de Shenandoah.

Editorial: Treating inmates humanely?: The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday laid out a series of accusations that include the death of an inmate who had gangrene, which went untreated, and the seemingly routine rejection of necessary medicine for other inmates.