Print edition for July 18, 2007

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 still investigating whether church officials obstructed justice and expects that those documents could be a key in building a case.

Final table finishers at the main event of the World Series of Poker: AP; 1st: Jerry Yang, 39, Temecula, Calif. - $8,250,000

Won't you come back, CSN asks unions: By Christina Littlefield; 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.

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 a few to them that were never published, and I'm sure in this strong backlash against Bush, many other letter writers probably have written negative comments that evidently were rejected also.

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 he put out a news release Tuesday saying he would support the state engineer's decision to ask the DOE to stop using Nevada water to drill at the dump site. No-brainer, right? Enter Harry Reid. The Senate majority leader read the fine print of the engineer's letter and declared he was "incredibly disappointed." Why? Because the DOE can still move forward, with a "green light" ...

LOOKING IN ON: EDUCATION: By Emily Richmond; 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.

LOOKING IN ON: SUBURBS: By Mike Trask; Gina Boeckle doesn't like Henderson's vicious - dog ordinance, which was updated this year, one bit.

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.

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 their gross profits. We have to stop subsidizing these properties because they certainly make enough money to advertise themselves.

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 electrical wires and leaking roofs.

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 of the United States and the free world continue to be embarrassed by the indignities he has perpetrated on the Iraqi people, U.S. attorneys general, the justice system and, most recently, his former surgeon general.

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, were injured.

$9.5 billion arena complex goes here - that's the plan: $9.5 billion arena complex goes here - that's the plan

Final table finishers at the World Series of Poker's main event: AP; 1st: - $8,250,000

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 the Culinary Union (of which I am a member) and other unions, not out-of-state millionaire business owners. The R-J hates the former and loves the latter.

TAKE FIVE: SCORE LAS VEGAS TERRIBLE'S CUP III: WHAT: SCORE Las Vegas Terrible's Cup III

Letter: Bush is wrong about what's needed in Iraq: Other countries look at us and laugh.

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.

THE ELEVATOR: Who's headed toward the penthouse on the local sports scene - and who's getting the shaft.

Nevada gets more than 15 minutes: Michael J. Mishak; Chris Dodd finished his speech and started working the room, white hair rumpled from passing sweaty fingers through it too many times.