Print edition for September 26, 2007

THE ELEVATOR: Who's headed toward the penthouse on the local sports scene - and who's getting the shaft.

Jeff Haney on how author Dave Stann turns another (expletive) book on blackjack strategy into a wild ride: Author "Hollywood" Dave Stann, who has carved out a persona in the niche market of televised blackjack tournaments as the obnoxious jerk everyone loves to hate, dedicates the newly released book to Ken Uston and Hunter S. Thompson.

Editorial: Nutty is not the word: Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank, though, had this reasonable response: "Without listening to Ahmadinejad, how can the world appreciate how truly nutty he is?"

Letter: America unwisely took its focus off Afghanistan: Did Iraq start this war by killing nearly 3,000 of our citizens? No. Did we forget those who died when we turned our focus on Iraq and rendered minimal resources to fight al-Qaida in Afghanistan? Yes.

Editorial: Ulterior motive at work?: Indiana's law, passed two years ago, was upheld in a 2-1 vote by a panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. On Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to that ruling.

For those who live by golf course, a new worry: Homeowners around Las Vegas National Golf Course have feared for months that the sale of the course might mean they will lose their views and, thus, thousands of dollars in property values.

Letter: Mexico needs right type of aid from U.S.: Rep. Henry Cuellar's proposal of "hundreds of millions of dollars in aid over several years" implies another lucrative deal for U.S. arms exporters and more questionable training at the infamous School of the Americas/Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in Fort Benning, Ga.

Too much gambling, even for Vegas: By Liz Benston; As with so much else about the gaming industry, it comes down to perspective.

DiDi Carson: 1928-2007: DiDi Carson was not afraid to champion less-than-popular causes if she thought they would benefit the Democratic Party.

Maybe no dump at Yucca after all: WASHINGTON - For years Yucca Mountain and the future of nuclear energy in this country have been intertwined until, suddenly Tuesday, that seemed to no longer be the case.

Letter: Bush is ignoring will of the people: We are fighting a n unwinnable war.

Jon Ralston on why Sierra Power's head honcho is taking on Reid over renewables: By Jon Ralston; So when the man in the black hat, Michael Yackira, the chief executive of Nevada Power's parent, Sierra Pacific Resources, said he would come on "Face to Face" to answer questions about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's jihad against coal and, especially, the company's Ely Energy Center, I didn't know what to expect. I certainly didn't anticipate this response one month after Reid had appeared on the program and declared the Ely project and two other coal plants as dead as Jacob Marley.

You think you've got noisy neighbors: By Mike Trask; Martin Gubb should have complained sooner.

Editorial: Who's in charge?: A story by The New York Times on Sunday, which was based on the examination of more than 14,000 nursing homes, about 10 percent of which had been purchased by private investment groups since 2000, says that residents in the homes acquired by private investors generally fared worse than they had under previous owners.

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