Print edition for January 7, 2008

Sleep: A luxury most can’t afford on super bowl trip: By Brian Hilderbrand; It sounded like a good idea at the time. A journalist friend was going to be in Arizona the first weekend of February to cover the Super Bowl and he invited me to join him in Chandler for the “festivities.”

Could it be that Harry Reid...: By Jon Ralston; Could it be that Harry Reid isn’t really insane?

Cost a factor for CES: With 140,000 people attending the Consumer Electronics Show beginning today at three Las Vegas locations, hotel executives are free to triple and even quadruple their regular room rates.

Hotel rate hikes do disservice to economy: David Adams, Las Vegas; Isn’t it ironic that within a week there are two “killing the goose” stories? First, the big casinos argue that ballot propositions to raise the taxes on casino income might be “killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.”

Children denied coverage: The Bush administration, which has opposed expansion of a federal health insurance program for poor children, is now restricting states’ efforts to expand Medicaid eligibility requirements in order to cover the same category of children.

Jeff Haney gets a second opinion on a blackjack strategy question: By Jeff Haney; Don Schlesinger has challenged the answer to one of the quiz questions from the annual Blackjack Ball that appeared in Friday’s column.

College football’s anticlimax: By Ron Kantowski; In terms of riveting drama, this year’s Bowl Championship Series would have to rate right alongside of ... well, I’m gonna go with Season 2 of “F Troop.”

School Board’s No. 2 wants to be No. 1: By Emily Richmond; After more than two years on the Clark County School Board, including the past 12 months as its vice president, Terri Janison says she’s ready to take up the gavel.

Penalized at 65: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has announced that employers can reduce or eliminate health benefits for retirees who have turned 65 and are eligible for Medicare.

News

Obama’s refrain: Change the world with me: PAGE 1; By J. Patrick Coolican; By the time Sen. Barack Obama reaches a high school auditorium in this mid-size Boston suburb, he’s late and drag tired. Carolyn Sheehan and Jo Mednick, two very different women in different political parties, had been standing on opposite sides of the overflow cafeteria for more than two hours waiting to see the first-term senator and sudden frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. Both seemed skeptical.

Sharing the spotlight: PAGE 7; By Jerry Fink; Seventy-year-old DeLois LaDelle has found the fountain of youth that flows through her feet, legs and heart, made strong by more than 60 years of dancing.