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Print edition for December 18, 2007

CAUCUS MEMO
J. Patrick Coolican and Michael J. Mishak
Some commentators have begun to refer to it as "The Obama Trick," which goes like this: Even though Republicans disagree with all of the policy positions of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, they still like him. Most recently, this was seen in a sympathetic profile by Stephen Hayes in the pages of the conservative magazine The Weekly Standard.
LOOKING IN ON: ENTERTAINMENT
By Jerry Fink
The first time I heard Chris Iorio perform was three years ago at Jack's Irish Pub in Palace Station. He was 14 years old and playing lead guitar for the rock band Old School, whose other three members were ancient - in their 30s.
Sure, we'll take your money, Mr. Adelson
By David McGrath Schwartz
For nearly a decade, there has been one rule in Democratic politics: Don't take money from Sheldon Adelson or his companies.
Editorial: Look ahead, look away
The foreign doctors are enrolled in a federal-state program that allows them to gain U.S. residency if they work 40 hours a week for three years in a needy area. They were often overworked and were even assigned to hospitals to treat insured patients while they were supposed to be working at clinics serving the poor.
MOUNTAIN WEST JUST BOWLED OVER
This is the first season the Mountain West Conference is sending five teams to college football bowl games, which can mean one of two things:
Letter: We need to make college affordable
Robert Wagner
Many American colleges and universities are not affordable for freshman students, so they enroll in community colleges.
Reid punches Yucca in the gut, but his legacy is still in the making
By Lisa Mascaro
WASHINGTON - The big year-end spending bill engineered by Congress on Monday shows that perhaps no one has a greater chance to shine, or stumble, in efforts to secure legislation for Nevada than Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Editorial: Greenhouse gas emissions
The Bali Action Plan, which is more about planning than taking action, contains no caps or limits on greenhouse gas emissions. It does acknowledge, however, that "deep cuts in global emissions will be required" in the future and calls for two years of talks before such reductions are set.
Letter: Media shouldn't lavish attention on killers
Nowadays, however, when the notoriety of infamous behavior is given the same top billing as earned fame, extreme wannabes opt to gain their stage time through acts of mass murder. Listen to the prediction of Nebraska's megamurderer, Robert Hawkins: "Now, I will be famous."
Letter: Save the state money - fire Gibbons
Joe Cross, Las Vegas
Councilman's landlord wants help
Downtown strip joints and taverns - even a casino - have received tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to pay for improvements to their business's exteriors.
Characters and music keep coming in one-woman show
Who: Kelly Clinton
Editorial: No ducking tapes probe
At that time Bush and his compliant attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, approved what have come to be known as "harsh interrogation techniques." It is known that waterboarding - wrapping a prisoner's mouth, strapping him to an inclined board and pouring water over his face until he begins to drown - was one of those techniques.
LOOKING IN ON: CARSON CITY
CARSON CITY - While Gov. Jim Gibbons is preparing to reduce the state's spending, his wife is pushing plans to raise the next biennium's budget by millions of dollars to curb methamphetamine use.
Utilities push to grow but know little about how to keep air clean
By Phoebe Sweet
As debate over solutions to global warming rages here and in Congress, carbon jargon has started to fly.

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