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Print edition for January 8, 2007

Jeff Haney outlines many of the different proposition bets being offered for tonight's BCS national title game
The Buckeyes are favored by 7 1/2 points in the game to determine college football's national champion, with featured "props" linked to team and individual performances tonight at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., including this sampling:
LOOKING IN ON: CITY HALL
Program to help with rent assistance
Casino industry to broadcast a 'thank you' to Nevadans
By Liz Benston
Lest anyone forget that Nevada owes its economic growth to the casino industry, the Nevada Resort Association - the industry's lobbying arm - has launched a statewide radio and television ad campaign commemorating the 75th anniversary of the legalization of gambling in Nevada.
Quick rebound for housing
By Phoebe Sweet
Southern Nevada's slumping residential real estate market will start recovering by year's end even as other markets nationwide continue to struggle, a local economist predicts.
Las Vegas back on list for funds to fight terror
WASHINGTON - It took half a dozen meetings, a high-level conference call and a little bit of common sense to figure out the obvious: Las Vegas is one of the nation's more likely targets of terrorists and should be just as eligible for federal anti-terror funds as, say, Cleveland.
Public's assistance sought in AIDS fight
Nevada's oldest and largest support agency for AIDS patients is trying to tap into a new financial support base - anyone and everyone.
Downtown Vegas plans history you can walk on
Las Vegas history includes colorful characters and world-changing events.
Cycle of life
Cycle of life
Man of purpose
Tony Cook and J. Patrick Coolican
Rory Reid was the kid parents wished their daughters would date.
FLASHPOINT for Jan 08, 2007
By Jon Ralston
I, like many Nevadans, was honored last week to receive my invitation in the mail: "The Nevada Inauguration Committee requests the pleasure of your company at the inauguration celebrations honoring Governor Jim Gibbons and First Lady Dawn Gibbons." How kind of Jim and Dawn to think of me. I feel they think of me often. And I can attend either the event in Las Vegas at the Venetian (uh oh, the unions won't like that) or in Reno at the Silver Legacy. Or I could attend both for the bargain price of $110. And I can bring a guest. I ...
Editorial: Snooping without a warrant
The law, which Bush signed Dec. 20, requires government agents to obtain warrants before they open someone's first-class letters. But Bush added what is called a signing statement, in which the president noted that warrants are not needed in the event of emergency situations.
'When the Mob Ran Vegas' just the tip of Fischer's iceberg
Sixty-three-year-old Steve Fischer has been visiting Las Vegas since he was a child, coming with his parents to stay at places like the Sands (now the Venetian) and the Sahara (still the Sahara).
LOOKING IN ON: THE SUBURBS
By Mike Trask
Advocates fighting to preserve the Upper Las Vegas Wash are organizing to try to stave off development in the area. Friends of the Upper Las Vegas Wash will hold its first meeting at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Sun City Aliante Community Room.
Letter: Time for the people to pull the plug
The people stood up! Yes. Finally. The taxpaying citizens of this nation finally held our government accountable and we pulled the plug. We pressured our employee-representatives in Washington and told them, very explicitly: No more funds for Vietnam! The people pulled the plug and our military pulled out and came home. The people won.
Editorial: Keeping the nation secure
There is little doubt that such a move was warranted. The security failures included the discovery back in October that a government contractor had been keeping drug paraphernalia and computer flash drives containing highly classified government information inside his Los Alamos, N.M., trailer home. Los Alamos is home to Los Alamos National Laboratory, the nation's premier nuclear weapons research center. An Energy Department inspector general's report also noted in November that security safeguards were "nonexistent, applied inconsistently or not followed" in key areas of the Los Alamos facility.
Letter: Constitution supports gay marital contract
For those who argue that marriage, as an institution, has a traditional connection to religion, I agree. Once we accept this, however, we are left in direct violation of the First Amendment's "separation of church and state" clause. The state must be removed from marriage, leaving control of the institution solely to the religious community.
Editorial: It is about time
Southern Nevada is once again eligible for federal anti-terrorism money after Nevada's congressional delegation and state and local leaders mounted an exhaustive campaign to get federal decision-makers to see reality.
Letter: No Child Left Behind starts at home
The family structure must be relied upon to provide guidance and leadership so that the student can properly expect to function positively. The family must support the daily education that each student obtains at school. Community involvement is a necessity. Education is a 24/7 situation and commences at home!
A MOMENT CAPTURED
By Tiffany Brown
Twenty-one-year old Tommy Ly threw down his break-dancing moves with his crew during a late-night event at Empire Ballroom last month, and if you hadn't seen the shorter pant leg, you wouldn't have known from watching his moves that he only has one leg.
Ron Kantowski eulogizes a 'wacko' NCAA rule that, while used innocently enough by UNLV's Lon and Kevin Kruger, left the door open for 'unintended consequences'
Great, says Utah coach Ray Giacoletti. Now you tell me.
John Katsilometes feels the power of the tower as the Stratosphere preps for a 26,000-square-foot club that spans four decades
Set to begin operation next month with a "soft" opening, Poly Esther's is the Stratosphere's ambitious project designed to keep pace with similarly thematic (and massive) resort nightclubs on and off the Strip. The club is to cover 26,000 square feet and encompass multiple themes, drawing from the '70s, '80s, '90s and today. Expect lots of strobes, retro designs and period music set at high volume.

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