Story archive for January 2008
Thursday, Jan. 31
- Transcript of President Bush's remarks in Las Vegas
- Teenage expressions
- Youth justify contrasting positions
- Converging ideas
- The leaders of tomorrow express concern today
- Issues concerning students
- A lack of compassion
- The White House stalls
- Boggs’ spending will get a second look
- Boulder City hotel looks like a go, maybe with more delays
- Stories of perfection
- Give me your money
- Following traffic laws saves lives
- Bewildered, academics pore over sex-trade hysteria
- Lobbyist tells world gaming: You want tough regulation
- No mystery why dinner theater keeps guests in stitches
- We would elect one president, not two
- Bush is on his way, so beat it or else ...
- Why electric cars are just the start
- Bad driving is not a Vegas phenomenon
- No writers, no problem
- Las Vegas infested with rude motorists
- The forgotten war
- Health care for all Nevadans
- President Bush will be here today
Wednesday, Jan. 30
- Vigorous investigation
- Bag the policy
- Downturn not showing up on Strip, brokerage says
- Jeff Haney on the World Poker Tour’s switch to an obscure channel, and the fans forced to upgrade or do without
- Raggio’s voice in Gibbons’ call to rob local governments
- Standardized tests are necessary tools
- Boggs: I’ve paid $15,940; Lawyer: I’ve not been paid
- Sorry we missed ya
- Retiring from rink, in stages
- Up to $1.33 billion in fines
- Amid VFW fuss, Barlow shows west-side loyalty
- Helping the mentally ill
- Solicitations more frequent, brazen
- Caucuses exclude many workers
- Subprime clean up: Sadness overwhelms
- Shticking with Howard Stern
- Don’t put too much weight on experience
- Think tanks are good.
- Super Bowl advertisers waste their money
Tuesday, Jan. 29
- Invest in renewables, not power from coal
- Gordon Hinckley’s legacy
- New watchdog: Doctors’ abusers are in for it
- Stock market sneezes, pension fund catches cold
- I never knew Lawrence Weekly was so funny.
- Obama’s experience is hardly sufficient
- A pack of alpaca lovers
- Eat your Cheerios, Hispanics told
- So you thought you’d heard them all
- Pop culture under the microscope
- A chance at a real life
- Heroes from MGM’s fire aren’t forgotten
- A waste of tax dollars
- Police chief candidate no stranger to controversy
- State of Disunion
- So long to irresponsible Las Vegas drivers
Monday, Jan. 28
- McCain would give amnesty to illegals
- Look out, here comes Atlantic City's transformation
- It was the worst kind of nostalgia ...
- Garbage mars entrance to Vegas
- Obama shows very good judgment
- A web of deceit
- Helping the military
- A match to bowl you over
- Why can’t choppers help put out fires?
- America, the beautiful
- More help urged for ‘green’ energy
- Jeff Haney explains why sports betting at Las Vegas casinos is small potatoes
- Boulder City has big caucus turnout
- Middle class will rally ’round Clinton
- Animal shelter income slashed
- Adelson donates to Dems, tests the Culinary
- Hyphenation issue isn’t so simple
- Bandits, booby traps in Baja
- Making the grade?
- How many free jackets can a guy wear?
Sunday, Jan. 27
- U.S. continues spiral toward financial ruin
- Jon Ralston questions whether the impending race to fill Chip Maxfield’s seat on the Clark County Commission is really a race at all, or just an anointment
- Pushing fun for older women, ‘Hats’ fails to provide much of it
- State of the Union: Bush chance to shape legacy
- Brian Greenspun believes a bold plan to make Israel an oil-independent, electric car nation is a model for the world
- Partying away as taxpayers pay and pay
- They got housing; they’ll get trouble
- Time was that Preview Las Vegas ...
- Quick fix won’t solve our economic crises
- Don’t call them fake: They’re as real as most of Las Vegas
- A real nowhere bill
- Halverson calls for help, ends up in a fix
- ‘Viability’ threshold unfair to candidates
- How Vegas could weather a recession
- U.S. voters fired up — like Nevadans
- Jeff Simpson on the latest reason Nevada should yank the Trop owner's license
- Democracy is the people’s responsibility
- Enough is enough
- Weak dollar fuels high-end Palazzo retailers’ optimism
- Contemptibles’ collectibles
- Uplifting survey results
Saturday, Jan. 26
- Stealing history’s riches
- Going up, going down: Demarion Horton and Heath Schroyer
- From the inside: How they coped
- Take pride in being an American
- He could go pro, but is staying put
- Past tragedies at Las Vegas resorts led to safer visits for today’s guests
- Ensuring patient safety
- Nevada’s caucuses something to cheer
- I never knew the Associated General Contractors of America ...
- Embrace America, but don’t forget heritage
- A good outcome
- McCain a Democrat? Give me a break
- Democrats’ new focus: What kind of shape will Bush leave Iraq in?
Friday, Jan. 25
- The band played on
- MGM fire changed safety standards
- More about the Monte Carlo
- Deadly casino fires helped rewrite safety standards
- The final numbers are in ...
- Twyla Tharp to join notable list as ballet honoree
- U2, in 3D, in your face
- Gamblers’ best bets for free drinks, meals in Clark County are Laughlin, that other Strip
- NLV’s chief conundrum: From without or within?
- Caucuses exclude too many voters
- Easing away from coal
- Abroad, we are all just Americans
- Neighbors: Vote for project puts Barlow’s job at risk
- Jeff Haney debunks claims of ‘scamdicappers,’ who try to fleece sports bettors looking for an edge
- Repeated on tape, not the floor
- Pick Six: Guitar Slingers
- Jon Ralston is disgusted that lawmakers distance themselves from Coffin’s call for a lawsuit, preferring Gibbons take the heat on budget
- Teens turning on to good health
- Took part in caucus, but was vote counted?
- It’s just common sense
- Ron Kantowski on how UNLV’s athletic department can help Gov. Gibbons close the state’s budget gap
- Is help finally on the way?
- Is the Web turning youths into voters?
Thursday, Jan. 24
- In jail, TV is opiate of overcrowded masses
- SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge roars to life this weekend
- I probably should keep my mouth shut
- Reluctant at first to go into ‘mine,’ third grader strikes mother lode
- As market gets tougher, CityCenter to sell in Dubai
- Coffin to make budget case to colleagues
- Reid in hot seat over backing of spying bill
- Mortgage crimes
- Must wear hats, must have fun
- Caucuses do their job, and they’re free
- Complainers who live in a glass house
- Stopping the snowball
- Legends of the Diamond
- Let’s stop whining about the caucuses
- We’re all Americans, so forget the hyphens
- Brick by brick, quick, quick, quick
- Top Dems all sign pledges on clean energy
- Saturday was a disorganized mess
- Following the donations
Wednesday, Jan. 23
- Romney has what it takes to be president
- Crowd turns out to see Henderson church OK’d
- Character-istically Carvey
- State's universities split on using fees in response to budget cuts
- Turning the tableson convenient stats
- Thefts lead to blackouts and wasted tax dollars
- Weak dollar creating a host of dire problems
- Rush to judgment on Kucinich, debate
- Principal appalled by mess at caucus site
- Waiting for citizenship
- Jeff Haney analyzes the numerous offbeat Super Bowl ‘prop’ bets
- Cyber extortion
- We need both idealism, realism
- A deal is a deal
- Left out of the loop, lawmakers mull suing to overturn Gibbons’ budget cuts
- The Culinary’s lag, the Reids factor and the race’s racial divide
- The Culinary Union taking the heat
- Coal plant debate intensifies
Tuesday, Jan. 22
- Truth in testing
- Caucus not representative of state’s residents
- Jack Sheehan names names as the FBI tries to solve the mystery of D.B. Cooper
- Vote doesn’t really count in this system
- Now that the caucus is over ...
- Caucuses were anything but fair
- Brains, sensitivity ... and a jump shot
- Fight over, all together now against terrorism
- Gorman’s got its game face on
- Collector, arts benefactor left big footprint in Vegas
- Small-town sports: He’s got ’em covered
- Republican sites just as confusing
- Why rural voters broke for Obama
- Las Vegas exporting to top programs
- ‘Outsiders’ break in, with a gallery show
- A raucous caucus
- Disorganized contest sure isn’t surprising
- Band wages war with instruments, not guns
- Campus cops join beat cops to make schools safer
- Geothermal is the future
Monday, Jan. 21
- More than 116,000 caucusgoers, lots of chaos
- Education, science reflect skewed priorities
- Caucus bolsters Reid, but bumps still ahead
- A disappointing promise
- Crisis leaves little choice
- Secret’s out about field we can’t talk about
- Campaign’s ‘Big Dawg’
- Are they gone yet? ...
- Luring new businesses
- With Republicans come recessions
- ‘Wasteland’ studded with gems
- Ratepayers shouldn’t foot bill, DA says
- Obama supporters find victory in caucus numbers
- What went right, wrong and what’s still incomplete at the new Palazzo
- Caucus mess likely to drive voters away
- Blaming himself for loss to Pavlik, Taylor’s looking forward to rematch
- Audit: After-school program invited theft
- Ron Kantowski is out checking his mailbox for his mail-order sea horses
Sunday, Jan. 20
- Reid caucuses, but keeps his choice a mystery
- Preserve our history before it’s too late
- Stimulus needed quickly
- 45,000 turnout looks good to GOP, Romney
- Republicans switch, fatten Dems' numbers
- Obama’s remarks display ignorance
- A suspicious development
- Breathless: Last Campaign Hours
- See Clinton victorious, right by the slot machines
- Jon Ralston is struck by caucus firsts, from the unprecedented Democratic voter turnout to Culinary’s drubbing by Clinton
- Someone needs to change ...
- Ego has led O.J. down this path
- Mob museum would disgrace our city
- The people have spoken
- Culinary Union can’t muscle win
- Big numbers bring problems officials are happy to have
- How Clinton hit pay dirt
- Nevada delivers for Clinton
Saturday, Jan. 19
- Inside the campaigns, and the real story
- AP: Republican Romney Wins Nevada Caucuses
- Caucus-goers beware
- The Elevator
- No time to falter
- Indian health care law update is long overdue
- Scrapping over Scrabulous
- When all else fails, there’s Stewart
- ‘Jury’ hears final arguments
- Hopefuls: It’s Elko or bust
- Capitol Steps tread lightly on politicos
- Nevada really is a lot different from Democrats’ first two states
- Sun’s rationality a welcome relief
- Emergency room waits
- Drugs and claims about drinking split UFC fighters
- So Caucus Day ...
- Heading to Kuwait, reservists adopted first by Las Vegas
- Pint-sized ambassador
- Better rail system would benefit Nevada
Friday, Jan. 18
- In the Bellagio’s basement, employees suddenly media stars
- Edwards message: Louder this time
- Where art and architecture converge
- It must have been karma.
- Kerry comes out swinging,but this time for Obama
- Democrats toughen up
- Brian Greenspun will make a big change to get what we need
- Warming is fact; cause stated by many isn’t
- Clinton says Nevada’s problems, issues give her a dose of reality
- Culinary pushing hard, but inside lines
- Romney finds his issue; it’s the economy
- Watching the watchdogs
- Meet the man who sets the spread
- Just plain politics at play in at-large caucus site brouhaha
- Clinton the right choice
- New car for $2,500 would sell in U.S.
- OK, let’s go to the caucus -- play by play
Thursday, Jan. 17
- Choice for some Jews: Religion or caucuses
- Satirical singers find the humor in politics
- Clinton’s, Obama’s Spanish ads seem almost an afterthought
- The readers sometimes email
- Gibbons makes a solid appointment for special adviser on health care issues
- Denying problems won’t make them go away
- Let free market workout alternative fuels
- New focus, fresh images
- ‘Renaissance man’ to bring his blues to Vegas
- Grocery bags clearly creating hazards
- Another foe of coal
- This country needs more than pretty speeches
- Ruling on Strip voting looks likely today
- Democrats back to the battle
- Ritalin ball?
- Republicans get around to us, now that all’s muddled
- Spread master not surprised by drubbing
- Gov. Jim Gibbons makes a good appointment
- Top-dog Dems look the same -- until you drill down
- Protecting our seniors
- A proud BYU ‘dad’
Wednesday, Jan. 16
- Jeff Haney previews the National Heads-Up Poker Championship and its satellite lead-in
- So they asked the questions that needed to be asked: Can strippers really caucus?
- Husband, wife play to love of Cashes’ music
- 11th hour, Ron Paul holds to his maverick strategy
- Label food from clones
- Markets pick 'em better than polls
- Protect foreign doctors who work in Nevada, colleagues urge
- Court tackles overtime pay
- Nevada should scrap caucus for primary
- Jon Ralston tells Nevada to soak up the love while it can
- Oil industry would benefit from alt fuels, too
- Jewish films: Not just stories, links to heritage
- Undecideds find little help in debate
- Las Vegas has history worth preserving
- Shawn Barker: Getting to be Cash every night
- Timing may sink lawsuit aimed at Strip voting
- Tributes include Cash’s drummer of 37 years
- Out in droves: Candidates and styles differ, but supporters' passion resounds
- Kumbaya
- Teens skate toward a goal
- Clinton is clear winner
Tuesday, Jan. 15
- Democrats engage in substantive, tranquil and focused debate
- Complete debate transcript
- So we have caucuses in casinos. . .
- Americans at the mercy of health insurers
- Closing time for Gitmo?
- Kucinich hard to silence, NBC learns
- Campaigns out to make their mark in and outside of debate
- He collects art, adventures
- Dems: Can we all get along?
- Reid caught in middle of Strip-voting suit
- Faithful to history
- In better position
- It’s Culinary vs. everyone else in labor spat
- State government payroll bloated
- What’s fair? What’s legal?
- ‘Chicken Little’ liberals at it again
Monday, Jan. 14
- Let’s build a museum for heroes, not thugs
- Don’t blame schools for military shortfall
- In a charmed life, the Beav sees a changed world
- Basketsaurus rex commeth
- Choose your school — if you can get there
- Elvis sure tore up the track
- Having one historic political event in Las Vegas last week ...
- Two bucks could keep festival hopping
- Our schools get a D-plus
- Jeff Haney gets good advice but not to follow all the time on college basketball betting
- Banning the grocery bag?
- Most Republicans: There’s a Nevada caucus?
- FairTax would hurt retired folks most
- On School Board, experience wins out
- Taxpayers save, thanks to overtime crackdown
- Zoos enhance our knowledge of wildlife
- Doing right by former workers would cost taxpayers $130,000
- A deficit of sense
- ‘We’re going to miss him’
- Obama goes gloves off, head-on
Sunday, Jan. 13
- Culinary leader: Closing sites on Strip would strike at caucus’ heart
- Subtly, Clinton gets digs in at Obama
- Jon Ralston finds Obama retargeting ‘change’ mantra from GOP foes to Clinton
- You have to give Gov. Jim Gibbons credit ...
- Hire engineers, not hunters
- Requiring voter ID cards is folly
- Calm — and sunshine — before the storm
- Republicans forget about ‘We the people ...’
- Dial ‘i’ for incompetent
- Online bookies: Clinton going to the White House
- Bursting at seams, consulate seeks a bigger, friendlier home
- Media attention to Richardson too late
- Ex-governors for openness
- Brian Greenspun urges voters to choose realistically
- Lead us out of this mess
- It’s here, all new: lasvegassun.com
Saturday, Jan. 12
- Carbon neutral or not?
- Move lawmakers, reclaim government
- Voting on the Strip a no-no, suit says
- How the payoffs on some proposition bets on this weekend’s games were set, and which are worth making
- Former Family Court judge wants to lose the ‘former’
- The Elevator
- New car for $2,500?
- Yes, he’s really hanging there, pierced. Eww.
- Lack of planning
- Wrong ‘facts’ on warming, wrong conclusions
- Obama’s ‘Yes, we can’ echoes Culinary’s
- High court defies lawmakers on salaries
- Fix the economy, but how?
Friday, Jan. 11
- Power of Culinary Union hangs in balance as its protege Kihuen tries to break Obama hold
- Pollsters have a plan for Nevada: Skip it
- It’s porn, it’s business, it’s legit
- Environmental agency stifles public expression
- Dinosaurs head our way, ready to put on a show
- I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that now that Nevada has become the focus...
- Next president will need help from Congress
- Education budget cuts a step backward
- Preparing for the worst
- Symbolically, a door closes for nuclear dump at Yucca
- Campaigning here, Clinton goes over Culinary’s head
- Vegas: Lots to do besides campaign
- Richardson camp ready for new hero
- Money for nothing?
- Nevada Chatter
- Ron Kantowski knows Green Valley High’s heart is true, but realizes drug testing is not a magic bullet for schools
- Taxpayers’ information at risk
Thursday, Jan. 10
- Cost has driven away conventions before
- Yucca tie rightly cut
- Station turns free blues down a notch
- UNLV needs to fill five fundraiser jobs
- Stand-up, by seat of his pants
- Insurer to cough up a record $1 million
- Caucuses, primaries further democracy
- Cross Canadian Ragweed
- Vegas is owed millions
- Tom Ridge visits Vegas
- Pure arrogance
- Vegas’ new draw for out-of-staters: Help candidates take the caucus
- Expect it to rain less but when it does, watch out
- Ron Kantowski on the cancellation of a car race that’s always deadly dangerous, but this year was too much so
- Whichever side you’re on, just go caucus, Reid says
- Voter IDs needed for immigrant influx
- Aflutter over Nevada: Nation is all over the map on how important or not our caucus is
Wednesday, Jan. 9
- In America, a field of dreams
- Now we’re the epicenter
- Schools Outcry
- Las Vegas quits group that backs a nuclear Yucca
- Before it’s too late
- Exchanging a hoop for a ring
- The Comeback Kid II
- Jon Ralston gives White House hopefuls five helpful rules for campaigning here
- Journalism 2.0
- Yes, high prices could drive trade show away
- SEIU rises above chaos for Obama
- Clinton’s surprise win sets up Nevada scorcher
- Halverson must go
- In Nevada, Clinton’s team shoots from stoic to jubilant
- Jeff Haney tells where your $8 bet on the Patriots to win it all would win you a buck, plus which houses have the good bets
- What’s the point of primaries, caucuses?
- Hotels shooting themselves in foot
- Tick, tick, tick, Culinary will finally pick
- Reid, Chertoff: Enemies, Friends
Tuesday, Jan. 8
- One size does not fit all
- Short on time and input, regents cut
- UNLV Sand Burners? Uh, no thanks
- Rory Reid’s gamble on Clinton turns riskier
- Neighbors tell nonprofit: Make music elsewhere
- Mob museum sends wrong message to kids
- ‘Predators’ laws hurt redeemable kids
- At Green Valley High, play sports, you may face drug test
- The everything bed
- Going after illegal downloads
- Some see 51s, some see Stars
- Leaky rainy day fund
- Why speeders need a wake-up call
- Giving reality the hard sell
- Campaigns test bounds of religious freedom
Monday, Jan. 7
- Hotel rate hikes do disservice to economy
- School Board’s No. 2 wants to be No. 1
- Jeff Haney gets a second opinion on a blackjack strategy question
- Could it be that Harry Reid...
- Children denied coverage
- Obama’s refrain: Change the world with me
- Cost a factor for CES
- Sleep: A luxury most can’t afford on super bowl trip
- College football’s anticlimax
- Sharing the spotlight
- Penalized at 65
Sunday, Jan. 6
- Ladies of the light
- Owners of racy news racks get a breather while they sue
- Mayor loses pounds but hangs on tight to booze
- ‘John School’ teaches men the uglier facts of life
- Vegas wants a tech industry, but it’s slow going
- Porter urged to get full picture on nuclear waste in France
- Brian Greenspun on the ‘why’ of responsible journalism
- Jack Sheehan recalls the spirit of a student who overcame exceptional hardship to attend UNLV
- Vegas misses out on millions as parking tickets go uncollected
- Jon Ralston peers into his crystal ball and makes political predictions for Las Vegas, Nevada and the country in 2008
- Looking ahead on the housing slump, resort openings and the gaming tax
- Young, but ‘predators’ for life
- Delayed response times
- Obama’s momentum tough new test for Clinton
- They’ve got your number?
- CIA under investigation
Saturday, Jan. 5
- Everyone on steroids? News to me, Maddux says
- Hey, Vegas: Don’t gouge us
- Food labels are about to take a major evolutionary step — instant comprehensibility
- Sports betting made easier, at bars and beyond
- Make lasting improvements
- Gibbons lives in the capital, doesn’t mean he votes there
- 2008 turns promises ‘green’
- Yes, we have no housing vouchers for you
- Rebels basketball
- Paying judges fairly
Friday, Jan. 4
- Supporters bask in Obama win
- Distress over remark during Vegas concert won’t dissipate
- DA will go after former UMC boss
- Arts Notes: Stolen Rockwell may get visit from Vegas man
- Loud and clear for nearly 20 years
- Flight data now public
- Jon Ralston lists his top 10 stories that should have been
- Obama victory resounds across U.S.
- The hunt for D.B. Cooper
- First test for candidates
- Seeing no profits, condo owners sue
- They invented basic strategy
Thursday, Jan. 3
- Founder recaps Freshmen years
- With many undecided, Democrats sum it up
- Harrah’s: Slump hasn’t hit us
- Why picture from Iowa is distorted
- Egypt eyes cash from tut stuff
- Family full of jocks spurs UNLV guard
- Jobs safe at Health and Human Services, but cuts will still hurt
- Museum plans arresting experience
- Oil pricing itself out
- You get what you pay for
- On taxes, Democrat Rangel’s a bit of a Reaganite
- Ron Kantowski hopes UNLV learns from Kansas’ remarkable turnaround
- Too much royalty in the race
- An uncaring president
- Stale message
Wednesday, Jan. 2
- Crunch time on court
- looking in on: suburbs Stagecoach Saloon ends its long run in Boulder City
- Wherever black votes are, campaigns will follow
- Buy now; you’ll want this stuff someday
- DRIVE-BY ’TOONS: PESSIMIST OUT TO QUENCH PUBLIC’s ‘THIRST’ FOR ART, PAGE 7
- What’s happened to respect?
- Defiantly, they campaign onward
- Pakistan’s hope for democracy died on America’s watch bloomberg news file photo Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s president, inspects an honor guard during a change of command ceremony Nov. 28 in Rawalpind
- Mountain West Conference leaders
- Treat our soldiers fairly Roughly 20 percent of the nation’s colleges and universities don’t have policies covering students who withdraw for military service.
- Vocational schools help kids thrive but need money to keep flowing
- Constitution most meaningful in toughest of times
- No ride home
- Pessimist goes utopian IF YOU GO Who: Ivan Brunetti’s “Thirst” What: Aerial Gallery sidewalk banners Where: Las Vegas Boulevard from Charleston Boulevard to Stewart Avenue When: Beginning in February
- Like MLK’s, Bhutto’s courage played a part in her death Bhutto’s resolute refusal to be daunted by death threats reminded me of the Rev. Martin Luther King’s prophetic sermon on the night before his a
- Spiritual detox can’t get rid of John Sununu
- BIZBUZZ Jeff Simpson makes predictions about how the gaming industry will shake out in 2008
Tuesday, Jan. 1
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- US Military Deaths in Iraq at 3,902
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- Overrule voter photo ID
- Presidential hopefuls rush to identify with common man “If you ask a hedge fund manager what’s he worried about, he’s going to give you a very different answer than a guy who just lost his job in a fa
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