Print edition for March 13, 2007

UPON FURTHER REVIEW: Compiled by Ron Kantowski and Rob Miech; At the United Center, Chicago

Stardust casino imploded to make way for Boyd's Echelon megaresort: AP; Hundreds of guests partied beneath tents and on makeshift patios before Boyd chairman Bill Boyd's four grandsons pushed a plunger, setting off a pyrotechnics display and detonation that generated a massive dust cloud, chasing revelers into cars, buses and nearby casinos.

Q+A: Joe Satriani: What: G3 '07 with Joe Satriani (pictured) , John Petrucci, and Paul Gilbert

Stardust casino imploded in Las Vegas: AP; It is also credited with being Las Vegas' first mass-market casino, thanks to cheap rates and loss-leading food and drinks.

John Katsilometes on Pure Management's plan to bring some glitter to the gutter: Pure Management Group's ambitious attempt to merge an ultrahip nightclub with one of the nation's favorite recreation sports opens at 10 p.m. Thursday at the Rio. The Las Vegas Lucky Strike, part of a national chain of such clubs, is unlike the sprawling 56- or 70-lane lane bowling centers that have been built into several Las Vegas hotels. Lucky Strike has just 10 lanes in its 13,000-square-foot space, which is relatively intimate considering that three Lucky Strikes would easily fit inside the Sam's Town Bowling Center.

Deal meets opposition already: By Marshall Allen; Deal meets opposition already

Editorial: Offering students a bribe: In an attempt to drive student attendance at tests, some administrators and teachers in Clark County are promising raffles for cash, gift certificates and electronics, among other things, as Emily Richmond reported in Saturday's Las Vegas Sun.

Letter: Don't diminish the power of the people: The Nevada/Missouri Plan to appoint judges, "allowing" the people a yes or no vote on the elite's choices, is another example. Then there are the several proposals in the legislative works to make it difficult, if not impossible, to ever get an initiative or referendum on the ballot.

Letter: Daylight-saving time is light on savings: Since I wake up early I will be forced to use more energy because of the early start to daylight-saving time. So what that the sun sets an hour later? It just means I will have to run my air conditioning an hour longer, especially if forecasts about this week's warm temperatures come true.

Gibbons' policy of no fee hikes has some grinding their teeth: Cy Ryan and J. Patrick Coolican; CARSON CITY - Mixed signals from the governor and his budget office on a range of fiscal issues, and fees in particular, have legislators in both parties frustrated.

Ever-developing Bootleg Canyon helps put Boulder City on the map: By Mike Trask; Fifteen years ago Brent Thompson and his friends started riding their bikes in the mountains that line northwestern Boulder City.

LOOKING IN ON: CLARK COUNTY: Tony Cook, Las Vegas Sun; Clark County commissioners work too much.

Letter: When facts are stubborn things: Much of the New Testament was written within 25 to 40 years after A.D. 33 when Christ died. That's within the lifetimes of many eyewitnesses who well knew the facts. Making up a hoax like the resurrection would be like someone today writing that JFK rose from the dead. No one would believe it because there are still too many people around who know that he didn't and know where his grave is. Facts are stubborn things.

Letter: Staying the course is a terrible option: Some of the countries in the Middle East would consider it a victory for Islam. Americans might look back and feel that the thousands of troops who died in Iraq died in vain. The minority of supporters for the war will claim that we let the troops down.

Miller to governor: I want answers: In what has become a week of dueling letters, Secretary of State Ross Miller on Monday wrote Gov. Jim Gibbons for the second time requesting more information about $169,100 in contributions the governor received last year for a legal defense fund.

Editorial: Hurting our own: A handful of states have traced huge declines in Medicaid enrollment to the federal documentation requirement that went into effect last year, The New York Times reported Monday. The 2006 Deficit Reduction Act requires Medicaid applicants who say they are U.S. citizens to provide "satisfactory documentary evidence of citizenship," which can include a passport or the combination of a birth certificate and driver's license.

Editorial: Hollow words from Cheney: No one in the Bush administration pushed for invading the country more than he did, nor was anyone more selective in their use of intelligence while promoting war. When history writers assign blame for the war's inept planning, Cheney will be as prominent a culprit as President Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

FLASHPOINT for Mar 13, 2007: I feel Dennis Nolan's pain. The state senator upset those folks who erect Web sites and spout off about anything and everything - sometimes with insight, often without. Nolan indicated he didn't much care what "cyberspace bloggers" (where else would bloggers be?) thought on the transportation question. Some of the conservative blogophiles are upset that Nolan has indicated that he might support putting a road tax question on the ballot. So when the senator had the nerve to insult them, the bloggers went all MoveOn.org on him and demanded action. Nolan has refused to apologize, but he will soon have ...