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Archive for December 8, 2007

FOR LOVE OF THE GAME: Story and Photo Sam Morris, Las Vegas Sun; After leading Green Valley by as many as 10, the Durango basketball team hits the locker room at halftime with a 3-point deficit. A calm pervades the room where one might expect a fire and ...; 7:27 a.m.

THE ELEVATOR: Rob Miech and Ron Kantowski; Who's going to the penthouse in local sports - and who's getting the shaft.; 7:27 a.m.

Letter: Aluminum raiders discourage recycling: During the night the raiders come to pick out the aluminum cans. The worst part is they leave a mess curbside. This is not the first time this has happened - this goes on every ...; 7:27 a.m.

Letter: Incompetence is as bad as dishonesty: Which is worse, a president who repeatedly lies to the nation with respect to matters of grave importance, or one who is simply so egregiously incompetent as to not require that his subordinates keep him ...; 7:27 a.m.

Letter: Nevada should not repeat nuclear mistake: Has he heard about Hanford, Wash., the storage site that is still leaking from the spent fuels stored there in the '50s? Has he heard about Fernald, Ohio, the site of the nuclear Feed Materials ...; 7:26 a.m.

Editorial: Military injustice: A reservist, she volunteered to go to Iraq and was honored as a "soldier's officer" while leading an ambulance company. In the prison rioting that followed Saddam Hussein's execution, she orchestrated the rescue of the ...; 7:26 a.m.

Editorial: FDA's dangerous failings: The report released Monday was created at the direction of FDA Commissioner Andrew Von Eschenbach, who had instructed the agency's Science Board to evaluate failings that have included the recent recalls of tainted foods and ...; 7:26 a.m.

Editorial: More oversight needed: A story by The Washington Post this week reports that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission sets only voluntary safety standards for amusement rides and is responsible for inspecting the safety of only traveling carnival ...; 7:26 a.m.

FLASHPOINT: So Darren Mack, who admitted killing his wife and entered an Alford plea on shooting a judge, now wants a do-over? I asked former prosecutor Robert Daskas, now running for Congress, what he thought of ...; 7:25 a.m.

Snip, snip and still short: David McGrath Schwartz, Las Vegas Sun; There's a gaping hole that looks like more bad news for the Nevada budget.; 7:25 a.m.

School money not really safe from cuts: By Emily Richmond; Gov. Jim Gibbons has pledged that K-12 education's core funding will be protected from the budget cuts he is imposing across state government. But even if public schools are spared, projected shortages for some special ...; 7:25 a.m.

Students make college campus no place to be on a Friday: By Charlotte Hsu; It's a Friday afternoon at UNLV, and it's quiet. So quiet you might think it's Saturday or Sunday.; 7:25 a.m.

LOOKING IN ON: EDUCATION: By Emily Richmond; This week, a woman came to Desert Rose to thank staff members for the help they had provided her daughter, who was about to graduate. The graduation was extra-special, the woman told Ransel, not only ...; 7:25 a.m.

LOOKING IN ON: HIGHER EDUCATION: By Charlotte Hsu; But administrators are at least trying to make sure hikes won't come as a surprise for students at Nevada's public colleges.; 7:24 a.m.

CORRECTION: CORRECTION; 7:24 a.m.

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