Print edition for December 20, 2007

ENGLISH ONLY, EVEN IF BROKEN: By Timothy Pratt; A blog tied to a recently created group of Hispanic Republicans in Nevada includes several posts that sharply favor using English in the public sphere. The hitch: They're in broken English.

Your last chance, city tells arena developer: By Joe Schoenmann; The cheeriness Las Vegas officials have displayed about the prospects for a downtown arena vanished Wednesday.

Letter: Politicians think of themselves, not our kids: Specifically, wasn't it just a couple of years ago that we saw such a tremendous revenue windfall that money was given back to taxpayers? When that happened I couldn't help but wonder why the money wasn't invested in high-yielding accounts, where it would grow and protect us from future crises. Taxes had already been collected, so make it work for us all rather than gain some votes for politicians who couldn't care less about us. Our politicians just had to give back all the money, make themselves look like heroes, and look where we are now!

In parking fight with Wynn, this round goes to Adelson: In parking fight with Wynn, this round goes to Adelson

Letter: Nuclear, coal industries score wins: This is a big enough cut that the Yucca Mountain project should actually feel it. Score a big one for Nevada!

Editorial: Yucca loses, state wins: This is outstanding news for Nevada, which has spent 20 years documenting the insurmountable safety problems of the proposal to bury the nation's high-level nuclear waste at the Yucca site, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

THE ORGANIZERS | PART TWO OF THREE: By J. Patrick Coolican; The wall calendar in Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's North Las Vegas field office has a curious word scribbled on Jan. 21, which is two days after the presidential caucus in Nevada.

Letter: Let commissioners help the people: Although the kids worked very hard to raise their own funds to cover the cost of the trip, their efforts fell quite short of their goal. In order for the kids to participate, their families had to come up with the remainder of the cost. Our family was not the only one struggling to do so.

Editorial: Gibbons vs. Gibbons: Both are conservative Republicans. The governor has been bitterly anti-tax and condemned the 2003 Legislature for passing the largest tax increase in state history. The first lady, however, voted for it as a member of the Assembly.

Editorial: An industry's clout: The measure, sought by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, would have elevated Great Basin National Park to Class I air quality status, a designation that prohibits construction of adjacent projects that could affect the park's air quality. If the measure had passed, the building of two of three coal-fired power plants proposed for Nevada, which Reid rightly opposes, would have been blocked.

Fans have more than one bowl game to be disgruntled about: It didn't take long for UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero to fire head coach Karl Dorrell after the Bruins ended their season with a 24-7 thumping at the hands of crosstown rival USC. Less than 48 hours, to be exact.

Ron Kantowski relives the 15-year history of major college football's postseason in Las Vegas, in all its iterations, and offers his rankings on ...: I guess it wouldn't be the first time that happened.

Another gallery makes its move: By Kristen Peterson; As REI Neon/Warburg Pincus continues to toy with downtown tenants and property owners, some businesses are packing up and leaving.

Paul camp marches to own beat: On the day that Ron Paul, the feisty Republican presidential candidate, reportedly exceeded his audacious quarterly fundraising goal of $12 million by more than $6 million, his supporters marched through downtown Las Vegas, hurled tea bags at the IRS and denounced money. They demanded a return to the gold standard and sneered at the unsupported dollar, calling it "fiat currency."