Print edition for July 20, 2007

Jeff Haney tells football bettors which group of casinos is offering the area's best reduced-vigorish promotion: The "half-vigorish" special at the Stratosphere and related properties will again be offered on Thursdays from 5 p.m. to closing, company officials said at a football-betting media conference at the Stratosphere.

Soccer teams from Mexico bring a sense of home, new and old: By Timothy Pratt; A party for thousands happened Wednesday night and you probably weren't invited.

Artists protecting their turf can say it with radiators: When the Michigan-based developer REI Neon met with community members last April to unveil plans , including an arena, for 85 downtown acres, there was, um, a little upheaval from some artists.

Come early for your seat, but expect a late start: Mike Trask, Las Vegas Sun; Things I learned at my first Mexican soccer game:

Her name is Ku'uleialohaoka'alakalama Young. Remember it.: By Timothy Pratt; Her name is Ku'uleialohaoka'alakalama Young. Remember it.

Ron Kantowski on Mexican futbol at Sam Boyd being more fun than Wyoming-UNLV football: At first glance, the modest crowd of 8,000 that turned out to watch Mexican professional clubs Monterrey and Pumas kick the spotted ball around Sam Boyd Stadium on a sultry Wednesday night might be considered a bust - especially given that one of every four people who live here speaks Spanish a lot better than I do.

Editorial: Guardians of secrecy: Cheney and President Bush have closely guarded information about the meetings, which began in 2001, and a 2004 U.S. Supreme Court decision has allowed them to keep the information secret.

FLASHPOINT for Jul 20, 2007: Six months from yesterday, Nevada will hold its second-in- the-nation presidential balloting - and the Democrats are excited. They sent out a news release Thursday about how all the candidates keep coming and how the party is erecting the infrastructure to make the event successful. I still can't believe they keep touting some practice caucuses they are conducting and calling them "mockuses." It sounds like an invitation to "mock us," and many of us will oblige. And I almost forgot the headline on the news release: "Six Months to Caucus Day: Candidates Meeting Nevadans Face to Face." I hope they ...

Editorial: Sleeping with the enemy: Despite having caught the Energy Department violating a court order, Gibbons is allowing federal workers to continue to illegally take water for the next month so they can try to salvage their disintegrating case for Yucca Mountain.

Letter: Government administrators overpaid: This confirms the salaries of government administrators are way out of line with those paid by businesses and suggests that a moratorium on government salaries should be enacted until they are brought back in to line.

Letter: Bush, Cheney have been a disaster: They went to war against the advice of many people and much intelligence information. This was just a job that needed to be finished by Bush because his daddy did not get it done. Now the country is in a no-win situation that Bush's ego will not let him get out of. Thousands of Americans are dying because of the mess Bush has gotten us into.

Editorial: A bewitching book: Fret not. You won't find any Harry Potter spoilers in this editorial.

Gibbons drops airport from safety panel: By J. Patrick Coolican; Gov. Jim Gibbons has removed the lone representative of McCarran International Airport from the state's Homeland Security Commission.

Jon Ralston on two who know a different Kenny: Lynn Vertner and her daughter, Amanda, are doing just that and have been - literally and figuratively - since that day in late 2003 when the news broke that Kenny had made a deal with the federal government in the G-Sting case. Lynn remembers that day.

In politics, Nevadans give and give: Michael J. Mishak and Alex Richards; Click here for a printable graphic.

Letter: Unprovoked war's wake of destruction: I remember Vietnam. We lost that military exercise and deserted our South Vietnamese allies, but we should not have been there in the first place, either.