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Archive for February 14, 2007

FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME
A basketball makes an unmistakable sound when bounced on asphalt. It's a high-pitched, echoing "ting." And on a weekday night at VoTech High School, that sound is followed by one akin to a muffled gong ...
7:11 a.m.
Jeff Haney on getting on a poker reality show by playing hundreds of hours at the Palms
Yet players can qualify for such an event at the Palms from now through June 30, according to Palms poker manager Michael Vento.
7:10 a.m.
Now it's all about the music
Who: Wayman Tisdale When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday
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FLASHPOINT for Feb 14, 2007
You have to give Gov. Jim Gibbons credit for innovation. No, I am not talking about midnight swearings-in . I speak of his policy of co-opting constitutional officers. Just this week, Gibbons appointed the wife ...
7:10 a.m.
Editorial: Making a clean sweep
It was a stark departure from 2003, when the country music establishment and fans rebuffed the Texas-based group after lead singer Natalie Maines criticized President Bush during a concert that occurred just before the U.S. ...
7:10 a.m.
Editorial: Alternatives to earmarks
While earmarks, authorized by congressional rules, are not intrinsically bad, they came to be perceived that way after many members of Congress, over the years, began slipping them into the federal budget without any review ...
7:09 a.m.
Letter: Nature's air conditioning being destroyed
All scientists studying climate change (2,000 worldwide) agree on the causes and consequences of global warming. The only dissenters are shills hired by air-polluting industries to create the delusion that global warming is controversial. The ...
7:09 a.m.
Letter: Honorable wars have inspirational photos
He seems to suggest that a nation's attitude about a war, and therefore history, is determined by the pictures it views. I believe it is the other way around. The pictures we end up viewing ...
7:09 a.m.
Letter: Government wastes a lot of money on pork
The government already has all the money it needs and more. What's needed is the proper allocation of funds. Government waste is nothing new. For example: A $10,000 award from the Nevada government for students ...
7:09 a.m.
Editorial: Conflicts in Yucca review
Of course not.
7:08 a.m.
Bad news mounts at public hospital
Lacy Thomas is gone, but he still is casting a shadow at University Medical Center, which announced Tuesday losses of $29 million in the first half of fiscal 2007 - twice the budgeted loss for ...
7:08 a.m.
Nevada's gold diggers mucking up the air
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7:08 a.m.
Utah turns spigot off for Nevada
Utah lawmakers have, at least for now, pinched the straw that Southern Nevada water officials had hoped to use to syphon billions of gallons of rural underground water to sustain Las Vegas.
7:08 a.m.
Finding amor made easier for Hispanics in valley
Ordering a burger in a foreign language is one thing, but wooing a lover?
7:08 a.m.
LOOKING IN ON: CARSON CITY
The Southern Nevada Water Authority is paying inflated prices to buy ranches for water rights in White Pine County that could result in Clark County residents being hit with big water bills, White Pine officials ...
7:08 a.m.
Enrollment keeps passing projections
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7:07 a.m.

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