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Archive for July 19, 2007

LOOKING IN ON: MOTOR SPORTS
Occasionally, a professional athlete will surprise - indeed, impress - even the most cynical observer of sports.
7:26 a.m.
Bill Fanning, 1926-2007
Las Vegas lost another piece of its colorful past Sunday with the passing of comedian Bill Fanning, affectionately called Uncle Bill or Uncle Willie by friends and fans.
7:26 a.m.
Q+A: Alexis Gershwin
What: "Gershwin Sings Gershwin"
7:26 a.m.
FLASHPOINT for Jul 19, 2007
Where are the Republicans? It is becoming more obvious that the GOP presidential candidates - and the state GOP - are not up to speed on the Nevada caucus. And because the locals don't seem ...
7:25 a.m.
Editorial: Resignation long overdue
Nicholson, 69, is a former chairman of the Republican National Committee who was appointed in 2005 to head the VA - a department with 235,000 employees, making it the government's second-largest after the Defense Department.
7:25 a.m.
Letter: Democrats have guts to stand up to bullies
I agree that we do have the greatest nation on Earth. But chest pounding and war mongering, and deceit and lies , are what got us into this mess in Iraq in the first place. ...
7:25 a.m.
Letter: Use eminent domain to fix up apartments
Instead of uprooting 800 people and trying to find them other, affordable (for us taxpayers as well as them) housing, wouldn't it make more sense to use eminent domain to take control of the Buena ...
7:25 a.m.
Letter: Let the Iraqis solve their own problems
We would like to instill democracy in Palestine. Let's insert the U.S. Army into the cauldron that exists between Hamas and Fatah. They are only two different political parties, both of the same religion. Would ...
7:24 a.m.
Letter: President's use of Almighty is selective
In our great country, we already have freedom, but under Bush we don't have affordable health care for all (my Almighty would certainly gift that to my fellow citizens). Instead, it is acknowledged that the ...
7:24 a.m.
Letter: Bush respects, fears no one except Cheney
Are the presidents who complained about the limits of the office the ones who viewed the Constitution as a valid document, and the U.S. Congress as a legitimate institution? Are those same complainers the ones ...
7:24 a.m.
Editorial: Sentence says: Crime pays
It's a sentence that, frankly, makes our skin crawl.
7:24 a.m.
Gibbons seen undermining a nuke-free Yucca
It was not one of Gov. Jim Gibbons' friendlier meetings.
7:24 a.m.
Reid's obligation
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's ornate offices in the U.S. Capitol are not the kind of gilded-age place where you want to be caught in your underwear.
7:23 a.m.
Freed overseas, thanks to help from Nevada
After 18 months in prison in Russia and Kazakhstan, Mark Seidenfeld is free.
7:23 a.m.
Caesars' aim: Keep towering over Strip
Click here for a printable graphic.
7:23 a.m.
Presidential race adds fuel to Culinary's fire
Say you're MGM Mirage management, and you're in tough negotiations with the Culinary Union over a new contract, a contract that will determine much of your economic fate for the next few years.
7:23 a.m.

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