Print edition for October 15, 2007

Henderson chose 'best' without looking at others: By Mike Trask; This month Henderson will hand over the city manager 's reins to Mary Kay Peck, the assistant city manager and a 12-year city employee .

He says he's ready; will he die tonight?: CARSON CITY - On Nevada's Death Row, Jimmy Neuschafer was the master of delays - and gastronomical gamesmanship.

LOOKING IN ON: EDUCATION: By Emily Richmond; David Clementson, a student at Sandy Miller Elementary School, had no trouble picking his favorite teacher.

As district changes, so do Porter's votes: By Lisa Mascaro; Last year Republican Rep. Jon Porter proudly allied himself with President Bush . . . But the November election changed all that, as voter unrest with the Iraq war and Republicans' domestic agenda propelled a Democratic wave across the nation.

WEEK IN REVIEW: CLARK COUNTY: There are basically two ways to chip away at the county hospital's ever-present financial losses - cut spending or boost revenues.

LOOKING IN ON: ENTERTAINMENT: Good news for Vinnie Favorito fans: the insult comic has signed on for another year at O'Sheas, the sliver of a casino that's shoehorned between the Flamingo and the Imperial Palace.

Letter: Looking forward to Gore's future good works: The long term damage the Bush administration has done is tragic and incalculable. Whatever respect or admiration America enjoyed worldwide is now trashed for decades to come. Al Gore, as an articulate statesman, scholar, visionary and activist regarding global warming, has restored some of that respect.

Letter: Congress doesn't budget its time well: We have our own situations in which we savagely dealt with the Native Americans

Editorial: Food safety failures: The proposal was an attempt to prevent so-called "port shopping" by some importers who would continue to try to bring food that had failed an inspection into America. Congress added the plan to a 2002 bioterrorism law.

SOAP STAR FRESHENS UP HIS ACT: Who: Rick Springfield with special guest Eddie Money

FLASHPOINT for Oct 15, 2007: By Jon Ralston; So five out of the 13 regents thought it was a neat idea to arm teachers on campus? The idea, from soon-to-be Las Vegas City Council candidate Stavros Anthony, a police captain, was to get the teachers trained and then give them guns. You see, this might prevent what happened at Virginia Tech by scaring off any gunmen who might want to come onto campus. Knowing that the English Lit prof might be packing surely would deter the student driven insane by being forced to read "Ulysses" from cover to cover from losing his mind and bringing in an Uzi. ...

Ron Kantowski takes in the sights, sounds and smells over the weekend at the Frys.com Open golf tournament: By Ron Kantowski; The shuttle

THE OPENING LINE: Rick Velotta; When Sun sports guru Ron Kantowski asked me to write about being a Colorado Rockies fan, he added that I was the only Rockies fan he knew. It's a little like being told, "You're the second-best writer I know, but everybody else is tied for first."

Letter: Counting the days until Bush is gone: Now the good news. Be of good faith, for as of today, there are only 463 days left in the reign of King George. Heaven only knows the trouble he can single-handedly cause in that time, but his time is running out.

Editorial: A federal responsibility: Collecting taxes is a job for the Internal Revenue Service, which is accountable to Congress for the actions of its agents. It is not clear who, if anybody, supervises private collectors.

Editorial: Trashing a 12-year-old: The boy, who spoke last month in the Democratic response to the president's weekly radio address, has become the poster child of the State Children's Health Insurance Program - and a target of vicious right-wing attacks.

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