Print edition for July 10, 2007

Liquorless strip club runs dry: Unable to sell liquor and turn a profit, the Crazy Horse Too closed over the weekend even as efforts moved forward to sell the once-popular strip club.

New good will at New Frontier: Michael J. Mishak; New Frontier owner Phil Ruffin has changed his mind.

LOOKING IN ON: EDUCATION: By Emily Richmond; To help the Clark County School District alleviate its teacher shortage last year, consultant Maggie Arias-Petrel offered to organize a recruiting trip to Mexico.

As day's luck bailed out, they faced making bail: Meet the luckless: the 270 or so individuals who, on what was supposed to be one of the luckier days this century - 7/7/07 - found themselves clinking not champagne flutes but handcuffs.

Editorial: Same thing, different package: Thompson has yet to formally declare his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, but the strong poll numbers for the former U.S. senator and actor, who until recently played the folksy district attorney on the television show "Law & Order," already are impressive. There are even pundits making comparisons of the socially conservative Thompson to a Republican icon - Ronald Reagan.

FLASHPOINT for Jul 10, 2007: Sometimes you can change the world. If you are skeptical of Bono's ONE campaign to fight global poverty and disease, notice how the political universe here shifted last week. Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley and GOP Rep. Jon Porter, who once ran against each other, joined to co-chair the ONE Vote campaign to engage the presidential candidates on these issues. Thanks to Bono, Berkley moves in mysterious ways and could put aside her partisanship, and Porter still hasn't found what he's looking for but could say he had for ONE day. Adding to the beauty of the moment was the recently ...

Letter: Bush is the worst president we've ever had: We have a president and an administration that has decided to destroy this country as quickly as they can. No president has so contemptuously lied and misled us as this man has. He has taken a huge surplus and put us so far behind we will never see the light. The world laughs at us. Only Albania loves him.

Letter: Higher tax burden hurts working people: The reality is that corporations collect taxes and forward them to government. It is only the market, their customers, that pay taxes. It can't be any other way. All revenue to corporations must flow from their markets as must all tax revenue .

Letter: Teacher shortage calls for innovation: It is no secret that Clark County has been suffering from a severe teacher shortage. In fact, School District officials have been traveling nationally and internationally to recruit more teachers. While some of these recruitment trips are successful and manage to fill some of the vacancies, the problem still persists.

Ron Kantowski looks at the possibility of two LV arenas and wonders who will occupy them: By Ron Kantowski; Given a committee has been formed to identify which of six ... er, five ... um, better make that four ... proposals for a new sports arena makes the most sense, it would appear Las Vegas finally is getting ready to throw its hat in the arena.

Work at night, on weekends to save taxpayers money? Judges balk: As county and court officials grapple with where to put six new District Court judges, most of the discussion has revolved around building new courtroom space at a cost of millions of dollars.

Editorial: A law unto themselves?: As reported by Sam Skolnik in Sunday's Las Vegas Sun, the Nevada State Bar Association's Client Security Fund, which reimburses people who have been ripped off by their lawyers, concluded that 21 attorneys had stolen $1.2 million from clients in 2004 and 2005.