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November 21, 2009

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Career NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series victories for race winner Travis Kvapil
Letter: Convenience takes back seat to education
With classroom overcrowding and failing Nevada schools, I am more than happy to have my children on a year-round schedule - which they currently are - if that ensures they are more individualized in the classroom and have a better learning experience. With such a lengthy summer break in the traditional school schedule, children lose much of what they have learned throughout the year.
Editorial: Fighting the flu
In fact, manufacturers plan to ship 132 million flu vaccinations, an all-time high. The only problem now, the CDC believes, is getting people vaccinated. Of the groups the CDC recommends be vaccinated, only a fraction typically get the vaccine. For example, according to the CDC's most recent statistics:
Jeff Haney on World Series odds that look out of whack
With the playoffs set to begin Oct. 3, the top three leading contenders to win the World Series - and four of the top five - are from the AL, according to oddsmakers.
Editorial: Lending a hand
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson has predicted that as many as 500,000 of the 2 million subprime loans could go into foreclosure when the interest rates reset at higher rates at the end of next year.
Ron Kantowski flags down Kim Lopez Johnson to find out what it's like to be the woman in control at the Speedway
Nobody could recall a woman ever serving as the chief starter for a NASCAR touring series event. But Lopez Johnson wasn't worried about making history. She was more worried about dropping one of the racing flags onto the track at the start-finish line in front of more than 50,000 spectators and a national television audience.
Letter: Adding O.J. makes mundane story grow
You may wonder why the alleged robber did not go to the police for help, but vigilante justice is not a foreign idea among the gun-toting, Second Amendment-loving folks who live in our valley. What seems to make this story important is that the alleged robber is O.J. Simpson.
If you doubt that Gondolier Numero Uno Sheldon Adelson is not just one of the wealthiest men
By Jon Ralston
If you doubt that Gondolier Numero Uno Sheldon Adelson is not just one of the wealthiest men in the country but also one of the most important Republican Party players, just look at what's happening this week. The man who is helping to finance the "Give the GOP political cover on Iraq" ad campaign through Freedom's Watch is hosting Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday at his house. That event comes two days after his Las Vegas flagship property, the Venetian, hosts an event for Newt Gingrich, the former speaker to whom Adelson has been a generous financial supporter. It ...
Five years in, Nevada State College out to find itself
By Charlotte Hsu
As it celebrates its fifth anniversary, it's about time for Nevada State College to start divining what it wants to be when it grows up. Not just a place that trains teachers and nurses, but what kind of flavor it wants to have, what kind of distinctions, to maybe even show a soul, a love, for something special.
MORE foreplay puts nightclubs in the mood
Liz Benston, Las Vegas Sun
Wynn Las Vegas opened less than three years ago with a small yet expensive lounge and nightclub steps from the main casino floor. Lure was decked out in mod furniture with white onyx floors and mood lighting. It had a quaint outdoor patio with lush greenery and a fire pit.
Letter: Children's health gets no love from Bush
Repeatedly, stories have come out about waste, theft and corruption in Iraq. Some congressional leaders have even described what is going on there as the "culture of corruption."
SIGNS OF LIFE
In the 1980s Patrick Gaffey was heading the nonprofit Allied Arts Council when he got a call from an employee at the Sands hotel.
SIGNS OF LIFE
By Kristen Peterson
In the 1980s Patrick Gaffey was heading the nonprofit Allied Arts Council when he got a call from an employee at the Sands hotel.
Tenants worry what's next
By Tony Cook
This is a story of eminent domain gone awry. It's a story about the anxiety that mobile home dwellers experience as the land beneath their homes swaps hands. And it's a story about a bunch of feisty senior citizens who want to know how it got to this point.
Editorial: Security lags at VA
Lost were the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of more than 24 million veterans and as many as 2.2 million active-duty military personnel.

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