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Archive for March 8, 2007

Tires adjusted for new banking: Tires adjusted for new banking; 7:18 a.m.

TAKE FIVE: SHARON ISBIN: What: Sharon Isbin; 7:17 a.m.

Q+A: Mike Epps: Who: Mike Epps; 7:17 a.m.

John Katsilometes on how S2Art Group owner Jack Solomon found the whereabouts of a lost Rockwell painting: Solomon read the crawl in disbelief. "Russian Schoolroom" belonged to him when it was stolen.; 7:17 a.m.

FLASHPOINT for Mar 08, 2007: They will talk about anything in the Legislative Building. That's especially true now, the doldrums in Carson City. With that caveat, it is noteworthy, as my colleague J. Patrick Coolican reported this week, that murmurs ...; 7:17 a.m.

Editorial: Rebels running again: Coach Lon Kruger has done a great job putting UNLV back on the basketball map. This week the team was ranked 25th in the Associated Press poll. The last time the team was ranked in ...; 7:17 a.m.

Editorial: Who inspected that sandwich?: The most recent ones include illnesses and at least three deaths caused last year by California-grown spinach contaminated with E. coli bacteria, and illnesses caused by salmonella bacteria that led to the recall last month ...; 7:17 a.m.

Letter: Congress is simply out of touch with reality: Perhaps if our members of Congress were forced to use the Veterans Affairs system for their medical care, this problem would not have happened.; 7:16 a.m.

Letter: It's time for Arab nations to face facts: Our nation learned long ago that all that is necessary for tyrants to rule is for good men to do nothing. Now it is time for the Arab nations to learn that all that is ...; 7:16 a.m.

Letter: After Bush, boring Gore will be welcome: He helped preside over one of the most prosperous periods in American economic history, in an administration that channeled much of that prosperity into paying down the debt and helping those who weren't raised by ...; 7:16 a.m.

Letter: We need leaders who will stop growth: Gov. Jim Gibbons is showing his inability to lead Nevada, once again, by calling on the federal government to release more public land for development.; 7:16 a.m.

Letter: Gibbons' plan won't keep teachers here: Gibbons has introduced a narrow-minded plan - there are no incentives for keeping me here in this state. (I moved to Las Vegas four years ago from Northern California to become a teacher.); 7:16 a.m.

Editorial: Giving parents a grade?: Raggio has proposed a plan that would require certain public schools - those that have for three years been designated by the state as needing improvement - to send report cards to parents. These report ...; 7:15 a.m.

Democrats alter Fox debate: Michael J. Mishak; After weeks of sniping from online activists unhappy with the Nevada Democratic Party's decision to partner with Fox News for a Democratic presidential debate, party officials unveiled a peace offering Wednesday.; 7:15 a.m.

Democrats' hearings uncover motives: WASHINGTON - Democrats made the need for congressional oversight of the Bush administration a pillar of their campaign last year, and this week that oversight produced an unlikely result: Democrats presided over hearings that revealed ...; 7:15 a.m.

Hillary is ready to rumble: Michael J. Mishak; Don't mess with Hillary Clinton.; 7:15 a.m.

Ron Kantowski on how an NHL team might move here, if the desert freezes over: A brief lunchtime meeting between Pittsburgh Penguins co-owner Ron Burkle and Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman had some Las Vegas sports fans lacing up their (rented) skates Wednesday.; 7:15 a.m.

All eyes on the new Goodyear tire: What: NASCAR weekend; 7:14 a.m.

Gibbons asked to give explanation: By J. Patrick Coolican, Jeff German; Secretary of State Ross Miller wants to know more about a legal defense fund set up for Gov. Jim Gibbons and why the governor failed to report $169,100 the fund collected last year on his ...; 7:14 a.m.

Ashley begins to build his team with hiring of No. 2 Smatresk: Incoming UNLV Executive Vice President and Provost Neal Smatresk - the campus' day-to-day operations boss - is ready-made for Nevada's tumultuous higher education system.; 7:14 a.m.

High court budget request outrages lawmakers: CARSON CITY - A legislative budget subcommittee has sent the Nevada Supreme Court packing after it asked for an increase of more than 38 percent in its spending for the next two years.; 7:14 a.m.

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