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March 29, 2024

Archive for July 18, 2007

Final table finishers at the main event of the World Series of Poker
1st: Jerry Yang, 39, Temecula, Calif. - $8,250,000
11:28 a.m.
THE ELEVATOR
Who's headed toward the penthouse on the local sports scene - and who's getting the shaft.
7:03 a.m.
TAKE FIVE: SCORE LAS VEGAS TERRIBLE'S CUP III
WHAT: SCORE Las Vegas Terrible's Cup III
7:03 a.m.
Ron Kantowski offers some alternatives to the tradition of Pamplona
Friday was one of the bloodiest days the normally sleepy village in Spain had seen in awhile, as 13 numbskulls, including a couple of brothers from California who were simultaneously gored by the same bull, ...
7:03 a.m.
FLASHPOINT for Jul 18, 2007
I'm sure Gov. Jim Gibbons thought it would be an easy, pos- itive headline for him. After all, hasn't that been what the Yucca Mountain issue has provided pandering Nevada pols for two decades? So ...
7:02 a.m.
Jon Ralston explains why lobbyists manage to get their way over and over and over again with state government
Beware the handiwork of legislators; but be even more wary of the unelected regulators who translate laws designed for general, abstract situations into regulations designed for the real world.
7:02 a.m.
Editorial: Sins of the fathers
Part of the settlement requires the church to hand over personnel documents to a retired judge, who will determine whether they should be released to the public. Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley's office is ...
7:02 a.m.
Editorial: Let facts be heard
We believe the answer is yes.
7:02 a.m.
Letter: Bush is wrong about what's needed in Iraq
Other countries look at us and laugh.
7:02 a.m.
Letter: Casinos don't need room-tax subsidies
The largest of these casinos have so much extra money they can afford to build in a communist country, which I am certain does nothing to help them advertise, but taxes them 35 percent on ...
7:01 a.m.
Letter: R-J has twisted view of reality, economy
For example, basic economics tells us the better more people are doing, the better a community as a whole does. One of the primary reasons for the success of Las Vegas is the existence of ...
7:01 a.m.
Letter: A place for many points of view
I daily read both, and have noticed that the R-J rarely prints any negative letters to the editor concerning Bush's policies. I haven't read many in the R-J criticizing Bush in months, although I've written ...
7:01 a.m.
Letter: President has done a lot of damage
Mr. Gliddon apparently has dismissed the realit ies that Bush's own party members have distanced themselves from him, that the right has called for a new course in Iraq and that most of the citizens ...
7:01 a.m.
Editorial: Renters sent packing
A story by the Las Vegas Sun on Tuesday reports that the closures at Buena Vista Springs apartments are the result of four years of failed inspections that revealed such problems as poor plumbing, exposed ...
7:01 a.m.
It's par for the course in Vegas: Links may give way to houses
To Dick Weisbart, the golf course that surrounds his back yard is as much a part of his home as his kitchen sink.
7:00 a.m.
$9.5 billion arena complex goes here - that's the plan
$9.5 billion arena complex goes here - that's the plan
7:00 a.m.
Won't you come back, CSN asks unions
A popular labor union apprenticeship training program has been asked to return to the College of Southern Nevada, where it had been booted off campus four weeks ago by lame-duck President Richard Carpenter.
7:00 a.m.
LOOKING IN ON: EDUCATION
There were plenty of jokes at Monday's groundbreaking for the new $61 million Vegas PBS technology campus, most at the expense of general manager Tom Axtell.
7:00 a.m.
LOOKING IN ON: SUBURBS
Gina Boeckle doesn't like Henderson's vicious - dog ordinance, which was updated this year, one bit.
7:00 a.m.
Nevada gets more than 15 minutes
Chris Dodd finished his speech and started working the room, white hair rumpled from passing sweaty fingers through it too many times.
7:00 a.m.

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