Even though the Islamic-steeped government of Dubai rejects gambling, there are striking similarities between Las Vegas - specifically the Strip - and Dubai, one of seven emirates making up the United Arab Emirates.
Even though the Islamic-steeped government of Dubai rejects gambling, there are striking similarities between Las Vegas - specifically the Strip - and Dubai, one of seven emirates making up the United Arab Emirates.
When MGM Mirage in 2004 said it would build CityCenter, a resort complex with multiple hotel and condominium towers, it was announcing more than just the country's most expensive privately funded project and one that ...
When Nevada (thoughtfully) provides a searchable list of unclaimed property and you've found out you don't have anything coming to you, there's only one good use for it: snooping on your betters.
Chancellor Jim Rogers and the elected Board of Regents have taken quite a beating in the press since news broke in August that Rogers would not be donating any more money to UNR because he ...
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert sharply criticized Mayor Oscar Goodman for suggesting that legalized brothels might be a good idea in Las Vegas, which Herbert said set a tone of "systematic, institutionalized degradation" of ...
All aboard! Gov. Jim Gibbons is taking us for a ride. No, I don't mean figuratively, folks. He is going to be the "honorary engineer" aboard the Nevada Southern Railway at the state Railroad Museum ...
But a discussion, maybe even an argument worth having, is what kind of community we strive to be and whether we are content to tell a tale of two cities. One is where Goodman, a ...
However, using their analogy, we have been fighting the war on cancer with the knife, radiation, and chemotherapy, and we are no closer to victory now than we were 70 years ago. Our attempts to ...
Your paper, and Messrs. Ralston and Herbert, cite the detestable exploitation of women, abuse of minors and human trafficking associated with the sex trade in lambasting Mayor Goodman's proposal to have legal brothels in Las ...
In the photograph accompanying the column I was struck by the striking resemblance between Gonzales and Edgar Bergen's Charlie McCarthy. I think this is fitting because Gonzales, like so many Bush appointees, acted as a ...
Whose watch was it on when 9/11 took place? Whose watch was it on and which party poorly planned and executed an ill-conceived war in Iraq? Whose watch has it been on that has stretched ...
A story by The New York Times last week shows that Bush administration budget and staffing cuts at the commission, the agency's lack of regulatory power and a philosophical shift that favors industry over consumer ...
A state regulator's approval of a monumental health care merger asks Nevadans to accept many things on faith - including whether a national insurance giant will fulfill promises to look out for local interests.
Joe Waltuch, the new head of the Nevada Mortgage Lending Division, defended the subprime mortgage industry and downplayed the foreclosure crisis in his first interview.
There was a column last week in the International Herald Tribune written by Elizabeth Graver. It was one mother's experience cleaning out her house - with her 4- and 7-year-old girls - of recalled toys ...