Print edition for September 3, 2007

Hey, wake up: Latest research finds that drowsy, sleep-deprived Americans aren’t helping anybody

Looking In On: Arts: Unexpectedly, blight intrudes on nature: By Kristen Peterson; LOOKING IN ON: ARTS Unexpectedly, blight intrudes on nature

Editorial: A meaningful Labor Day: Unlike holidays remembering presidents or memorializing the country's history, Labor Day, Gompers said, "is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."

PASSING THROUGH: By Mike Trask; Between Vegas and S. California, a town survives by helping people on their way

FLASHPOINT for Sep 03, 2007: So is Nevada really the Wild West, where libertarians and libertines can do what they want? Or has the state become a puritanical bastion, where the freedoms of old are no longer the freedoms of now? Those questions come to mind in the wake of Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto's decision to attempt to reinstate, through an appeal to the 9th Circuit, a decades-old ban on brothel advertising, which was recently overturned by federal Judge Jim Mahan. This is a case where strange bedfellows (hard to avoid the puns here, folks) fought the ban - newspapers and brothels. Beyond spawning ...

Tavern a dead issue: But proposal to build a tavern over a mausoleum is par for the course in Las Vegas

Today’s unions: Long on political clout, short on members: Today’s unions: Long on political clout, short on members

Jeff Haney tells why pro sports handicappers think differently from fans and pundits who don't gamble: They don't have the luxury.

Growing traffic, shrinking chances of help from feds: Although the Nevada Legislature did little this year to reduce gridlock on interstates and other roads, anyone looking to the federal government for immediate relief will be disappointed.

ODDS 'N' ENDS Jeff Haney tells why pro sports handicappers think differently from fans and pundits who don't gamble: They don't have the luxury.

Letter: Nations are free to choose their own paths: We tried to make them like us. It didn't work. A people must be allowed to choose their course, not have a puppet sounding the right words for the USA. A free country is one that votes when allowed to under no duress from any foreign country.

Air Force red flags condo tower at speedway: Bruton Smith sat in the infield media center at his Las Vegas Motor Speedway in February 2006 and dropped a bombshell.

Letter: All American citizens deserve health care: What we have to realize is that if this woman were French, German, British, Canadian or a citizen of a score or more of other industrialized nations that provide health care for their citizens, losing her job, or her economic status, has no consequence - she would get her medications no matter what.

Battling our bulge: The report was released this week by the Trust for America's Health, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research group that focuses on disease prevention. The research shows that the overall obesity rate among adults is 23 percent - lower than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's previous estimate of about 32 percent. The Trust for America's Health research was based on telephone interviews ; the CDC actually weighed people.

Editorial: Don't mess with success: Particularly inviting are the stores that place some of their antiques and other merchandise out on the sidewalks. An almost festival atmosphere is created as people stop to look the items over, chat with one another and perhaps order lunch or dinner at a sidewalk table. That there is life in Boulder City becomes immediately obvious and many people find themselves compelled to park and join the fun.

Irony blooms in the desert: Kristen Peterson | Photos by Tiffany Brown, Las Vegas Sun; If trees are truly a metaphor for life, growth, endurance and stability, then we're screwed. The reality and humor are not lost here at Burning Man, where artists play off the green theme.

Some ‘upgrade’: CSN files go missing: By Christina Littlefield; School defends outsourcing of its tech services

Editorial: Battling our bulge: The report was released this week by the Trust for America's Health, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research group that focuses on disease prevention. The research shows that the overall obesity rate among adults is 23 percent - lower than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's previous estimate of about 32 percent. The Trust for America's Health research was based on telephone interviews ; the CDC actually weighed people.