Story archive for May 2008
Saturday, May 31
- Protecting ancient heritage
- Summer at home?
- Give ethanol a chance
- Lower gas prices, not our standard of living
- Constant criticism of Bush is unfair
- McCain’s goals in Iraq are unrealistic
- The Elevator: Nevada Sports Hall of Fame edition
- State OSHA boosts work site safety
- To collar costs, Las Vegas will put its eight dogs out of work
- Economic chill freezes Vegas budget
- Rebels have to wait till next year
- Signs of imminent death
- Agencies’ good intentions, poor finances
- Women score team’s best-ever NCAA finish
- Hey, neighbor, try our hotel
Friday, May 30
- The truth hurts
- Smog begone
- The buzz over Mars
- We can’t drill ourselves out of this rut
- McCain, not Obama, is weak on Iraq war
- Obama didn’t buy Bush’s propaganda
- When will Jim Gibbons be set adrift
- Energy, budget on Gibbons' mind despite divorce distraction
- Rezko hires attorney in attempt to stifle warrant
- Casino plan may survive arena’s death
- When Vegas tenors perform Sunday, original member won’t be singing along
- Track manager: Smith mum on second Cup race
- The power of Sun City
- Political activism amid bacchanalia
- Jeff Haney discovers the ‘Big Three’ prop, an attractive bet for gamblers who think one of the favored teams in the NFL or college football will win the title
- Rogers boils over
- Contract for wood could fire up dormant power plant
- Places threatened by the times
- Ron Kantowski watches the consonants fly, and miss, at a spelling bee of sports names
Thursday, May 29
- Political cover for McCain
- Closing a racial divide
- Child obesity plateaus
- Don’t trust war’s backers on Iraq withdrawal
- ‘Carry-on’ charges make more sense
- Iraq exit strategy was nonexistent
- There’s still time to punish Bush
- Feeling pain at the pump, agencies downsize, scale back
- Ron Kantowski says Las Vegans can’t let soda-drinking Cincinnatians show them up on the ice, or at the turnstile
- Flash! Stealing electricity is risky business
- Playoff excitement building
- Latino tribute show debuts
- With the dirt flying, party backing away
- Fundraiser faces arrest in multiple gaming debts
- Fifth Street School soon to brim with students of the arts
- Term limits issue still unresolved
- Drama of Wright’s comedy is all about the understatement
- Crazy eight might be in Britney’s Las Vegas plans
Wednesday, May 28
- Health care cynicism
- Gaps in port security
- Ditch a bad rule
- Anti-drilling arguments ignore reality
- One way to keep
- Don’t dismiss young supporters of Obama
- Prison loaf should be the norm for inmates
- McCain’s about-face on Yucca
- WAR. What is he good for?
- School choice program sparks interest, if moderate
- For hotel deals, shop around
- Obama targets home issues in Vegas visit
- Term limits a simple concept, a nightmare issue
- Creepiest crime fighters
- Pssssssst! Cut-rate rooms in classy Vegas
- Jeff Haney discovers razz isn’t a ‘miserable’ poker game, and finds an expert who says it can be the best way for many players to consistently make money
- Subsidized apartments could change hands
- A cage match, literary style
Tuesday, May 27
- Lives are at stake
- Erase doubt about ‘Bodies’
- Joe Camel meets academia
- Illegals’ economic contribution immaterial
- Iraq policy holds cure for our energy crisis
- Obama’s backers are patriotic, not naive
- Clinton’s just hinting she wants No. 2 post
- Pundits go overboard on Clinton remark
- Gov. Jim Gibbons is not just getting brickbats ...
- Clean Crue member
- COACHING STALWARTS
- Why high school coaches are quitting
- Poll finds ill feelings on health care
- Underground gallery
- Teens report safer schools, but riskier driving
- Plans burgeon for hot Henderson corner
- Man, woman, nurse, engineer
- Long-term goal for UNLV: Raise graduation rate
Monday, May 26
- Remembering the troops
- Hold the mayo on that
- Audits are not insults
- American know-how could fix energy crisis
- Illegal immigrants drain economy
- Library Friends treated poorly
- Obama is the lobbyists’ puppet
- Vegas vet’s death spurs VA reform legislation
- Mortgage fraud worse in nearby states
- Fighters relish throwing their weight around
- Barkley’s gambling debt makes you wonder ...
- Bon appetit!
- Dems target Adelson’s politicking
Sunday, May 25
- Father of the dump
- Consumers must take charge
- New energy policy should be top priority
- What makes Clinton so experienced?
- Young Obama backers show their naivete
- Sex handbills sully image of Las Vegas
- Conservative rise: It came from the ’60s
- Jim Gibbons reaps public embarrassment through private sowing
- And you thought no one outside of Nevada ...
- Their plans to cope with budget squeeze
- In varied Vegas, two buildings spark architectural debate
- Kennedy among gallant fighters
- Get the room tax increase enacted now, senator urges
- Groups that help needy finding the need is great
- Brian Greenspun laments the loss of some of Nevada’s best public officials as a foreseeable result of term limits
- UMC painter blew whistle in ’05
- Teachers show how to break through
Saturday, May 24
- Contamination for sale
- Teens lag on seat-belt use
- A promise made ...
- Other countries ahead of U.S. in energy race
- Candidates’ wives not immune to criticism
- On the president, golf and freedom
- Pacman pays debts; case to be dropped
- The Elevator
- Bridge over troubled water
- Budgeting: County heeds, state bleeds
- Ultimate Fighting Championship 84, ‘Ill Will’
- Vegas' White House hope
Friday, May 23
- A new push for oil
- Torture and the FBI
- Patients deserve to know
- Superdelegates belie principle of equality
- Obama’s youthful backers are naive
- Shining example of energy independence
- The shrapnel flying over term limits
- NLV apartment plan yanked after neighbors’ protest
- Ensign sticks to principle on money for GI Bill, health scare
- Fall-safety requirement may get OSHA enforcement
- Report: Illegal immigrants contribute billions to state
- Gambling debt chases Pacman Jones
- Takin’ it to the (Alabama) turf
- Jeff Haney finds strong evidence the disgraced former NBA ref ensnared in a betting scandal was exerting major influence over games he officiated
- What's private, in public
- Lenders give Herbst Gaming more time to repay debts
- The initiative process in Nevada is a mess
Thursday, May 22
- A failed approach
- Wildfire season upon us
- The hardest word
- Increase fuel efficiency and domestic supply
- Speak up if you see improper flag display
- Put an end to sex handbillers on Strip
- Educate students for life after school
- Why stores still sprout in valley
- Glorified jock posters or art, project pretty cool
- The price for fighting: Schools may owe millions
- Slots quiet as Macau observes 3 minutes of silence
- Library District has fallout with its Friends
- Wilderness road upgrade has to wait
- Despite cheap shot, ECHL no goon league, former chief says
- What could be less Vegas?
- Barkley settles up with DA
- Ron Kantowski says high-sticking in June is just weird, but Wranglers will take it
- The art in UFC’s violence
- Uncertainty surrounding term limits
Wednesday, May 21
- An initiative mess
- It’s really elementary
- Politics and clean air
- Yucca Mountain unknowns will sink project
- Nuke threat most effective deterrent
- Voters responsible for energy crisis
- Obama-Edwards team unbeatable
- Teachers-gaming deal substituting for policy
- Yucca father changes his tune
- Track suffers when big boys are on TV
- Chapel owners say ordinance is a win-lose
- The best plan often goes awry
- Jeff Haney, at an IRS seminar, explores the debate over expanding legal sports betting
- Cher and Cher-alike
- No neighbors, no neighborhood
- Nevada again will be presidential battleground, pundits say
- Leave the wild burro be
- Wynn says he was obligated to try to recoup debt
- Mencia says: If you don’t like me, don’t come to my shows
Tuesday, May 20
- Chipping away at safety
- GIs have earned this
- Expand mental health aid
- It’s time to begin reducing oil dependence
- Human qualities
- Real losers in energy crisis are Americans
- If Clinton loses, Obama our best bet
- Doctor driven to start clinic for the uninsured
- Foreclosure fallout
- Eastern import catching on
- Songwriter, singer finds the right mix for his life
- The winners and losers
- Henderson museum plans taking shape
- Teachers give up gaming tax bid in deal
- Strip’s vaunted condo-hotels losing their luster
- Barkley says he’s repaid debt; DA hasn’t seen check
- Taxi regulator fought for, got, cameras in area cabs
- SEIU disputes outcome of nurses’ vote, gaining time
Monday, May 19
- A conflicted court
- Oil trumps food
- Fighting Alzheimer’s
- GOP oil men responsible for energy crisis
- Campaigns take focus away from Iraq
- Democrats insecure about security issue
- Let’s try rationing, and not just of gas
- The feds have all but sanctioned it ...
- This magician’s also a card
- Inspiration of Dusty Springfield helps land a gig in Vegas
- Organizer’s tactics test limits, even for workers
- Gas ‘peakers’ set to kick in when weather sizzles
- More commuters taking bus route
- Post-9/11 cuts may have gone too far
- Technically, they’re a success
- Well-prepared students quiz governor’s staff chief
- Just what sports needs: More Triple Crowns
Sunday, May 18
- A deal is a deal
- Working against consumers
- We should do better
- Changing our lifestyle will change gas prices
- Bush’s legacy will be one of failure
- You can’t equate gas prices to Europe’s
- The art of entrepreneurship
- A Nevada primer for Campaign ’08 races and beyond
- There was much speculation late Friday ...
- Interpreting protections away
- Calls for unity draw different answers from Clinton voters
- Looking into the nuclear abyss
- Frustration, anger among Republicans growing
- Project required collaboration, old-fashioned digging
- Standoff over landfill closure possible
- License plates can help save history
- No stopping history for tourists
- How Vegas became a city like no other
- Brian Greenspun gives his mom the second-best gift ever
Saturday, May 17
- Listing in name only?
- Sparking interest in science
- Maestro or machine?
- ‘Party planning’ is the new basket weaving
- The more energy solutions the merrier
- Crack down on those not paying taxes
- You have to marvel at Mayor Oscar Goodman’s ability to ...
- UNLV building project has shot at funding, even in budget crunch
- Fire settles casino’s fate for good
- Seven-time driver at Indy will see it on TV this year
- The Elevator: UNLV edition
- Suspended judge can’t even get out of jury duty
- Happier days for Democrats
Friday, May 16
- Cher fans are the real show
- Compounding a disaster
- Looming questions
- Helping rape victims
- Drilling in wildlife refuge avoids real issue
- Arctic drilling, research both needed
- Outfit cars so they can't speed
- Was Eight Belles treated inhumanely?
- Can’t accuse either party of sanity
- Barkley says he’ll repay Wynn gambling debt
- One tough guy, even when he lost
- Ballet’s renowned pointe man
- Stratosphere’s refusal to honor expired ticket gives sports books another black eye
- Virtuoso introducing America to classical music on the accordion
- All this talk about raising gaming taxes
- Kidney transplant outcomes fell short
- Already, CityCenter’s scale, complexity unparalleled
- UNLV nursing student earns one of state’s first Ph.D.s in field
- Sun wins award for top newspaper Web site
- A shoulder, or two, to lean on
- Army reservist throws early hat in NLV City Council ring
Thursday, May 15
- Boulder City: A gateway to the past
- A Gamble in the Sand
- The highs and lows of the World Series of Poker
- Showtime: How Sin City evolved into 'The Entertainment Capital of the World'
- Atomic testing burned its mark
- Boulder City: A gateway to the past
- Rat Pack reveled in Vegas; revered by the world
- Desert oasis drying up
- Mob Ties
- Tying the knot with ease or Elvis
- Las Vegas Showgirls: Show and (a lot to) tell
- 'Eighth Wonder of the World'
- Battle-born Henderson now 'A Place to Call Home'
- The other Vegas
- Home of Sin City's original sin
- 'Bugsy' Siegel - The mob's man in Vegas
- Desert highway turned destination
- Siegfried & Roy: Las Vegas' magic duo
- Elvis has yet to leave the building
- Bill that transformed a city
- Wayne Newton owned the Strip
- Conscience of the community
- Las Vegas weather can be a gamble
- Where the fighter pilot calls home
- The many colors of Mayor Oscar Goodman
- Fremont Street: A block with experience
- A gambling world away from the Strip
- Howard Hughes: A revolutionary recluse
- Upholding dress code
- Operation Iraqi Corruption
- Mileage miracle
- This Democratic race isn’t over
- Big Oil witch hunt all for political gain
- Despoiling refuge for oil is futile
- Bush’s sacrifice of golf a travesty
- Blunders yield bonanza
- The Wynn sues Barkley, claims $400,000 gambling debts unpaid
- Landfill decree avoids big issue
- Embrace the role of the villain
- A guide to Las Vegas Historic Preservation Month
- Porter: OK tax for GI Bill I support? I’ll see
- Take Five: Tyler Mosienko
- I get my shot at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
- Whatever she had, Cher's still got it
- Don’t mourn what is gone; celebrate what has survived
- Petition seeks OK for hemp in energy research
- Dropping out to go to work
Wednesday, May 14
- Surge in transit
- Paying for education
- Joe Egan, 1955-2008
- We’re all responsible for gas dependency
- Republicans also reject green energy
- Democrats should now back Obama
- Gov. Jim Gibbons’ inner circle fawning over a frazzled boss
- The globe-trotting basketball
- Theater makes the man
- Voters, pick your fix for gas prices
- Rogers giveth and taketh away, until he gets what he wants
- Nevada not a progressive state?
- Urban League takes a shot at developing its own priorities
- Desai, colleagues may take the Fifth, stalling lawsuits for years
- In anti-tax Nevada, policy can be pawned
- Letter to his boss faults Clark
- Jeff Haney on New England’s unprecedented over/under line for season wins at one sports book, and why there are worthy arguments for each side
- Goodman changes face on state’s top job
Tuesday, May 13
- Klieg light on OSHA
- Mining the Grand Canyon
- Hardly an advantage
- Americans need to shed their gas addiction
- Solar parking covers aren’t yet economical
- Why riding the bus can be a pleasure
- Board cuts its travel budget, a little more than asked
- Jack Sheehan on the rise of glass ceiling-shatterer Cindy Kiser Murphey, head of New York-New York
- Bearded look cuts no ice
- Comedy is magician’s secret
- Vegas slump hits Station Casinos
- Guitars & Saxes adds feminine touch to cool jazz
- His priority: Protect rural water
- Despite few layoffs, workers feel fear
- Yucca foe fought till his death — and beyond
- Doesn’t he have enough problems
- Plan: Remove toxins, build homes
Monday, May 12
- A win for homeowners
- Disaster in waiting
- Unfit for combat?
- Government must tighten belt just like we do
- Obama unassailable on issues that matter
- Blame Democrats for high price of energy
- Over the last month or so Freedom’s Watch ...
- United Way redistributing wealth to local charities
- Disney takes another pass at Vegas with filming of ‘Witch Mountain’
- One man’s theories on Vegas’ economy, then and now
- Compared with ‘The Locust,’ she eats like a bird
- CityCenter signals a change in the very nature of development on the Strip
- Story, music of ‘Jersey Boys’ pop the lid off memories
- Osmonds, Osmonds everywhere
- NLV’s annexation of industrial park expected to start within weeks
- A night of classic country, coming from Ireland
- Where credit is due
- Last week’s Indiana primary brings back hometown memories
- Despite slowdown, casino giant spending big
- Officers are people, too
Sunday, May 11
- Not so magnanimous
- Energy all around us
- Public health problem
- Why workplace safety can’t be understated
- America is no longer the envy of the world
- No single cause of overpopulation
- The first week of filing is over ...
- Several games of political chicken converging at one intersection
- With that pay, no way, many would-be graduate students tell UNLV
- A class's varied views of Vegas
- New-route noise lights up airport hotline
- Brian Greenspun has a proposal for a ticket to unite Democrats
- Intent on her doctoral dream
- Eye-to-eye ends with the economy
- After public misfire on polygamy, Reid acts to help those he blasted
- Keeping the heat on OSHA
- First, Democrats wanted clout on cuts; now they’re not sure
Saturday, May 10
- Ditch the flip-flops
- The lost bees
- Making student-athletes
- Heller’s bill has sensible voting requirements
- Address greed, not overpopulation
- Don’t subsidize the foolhardy
- Chuck Muth doesn’t understand ...
- Fact and fiction collide
- The Elevator
- Clinic patients’ choice: Recourse or privacy
- The academics of party planning
- Fremont East shows signs of regaining momentum
- Candidates for board include insiders
Friday, May 9
- Abridging voting rights
- Ending credit deception?
- Help fight hunger
- Safety, building inspections are full-time jobs
- Obama has history
- Local hospital’s care, personnel were great
- The Perfect Storm
- Bringing players back into game
- Council finds soft spot for needy
- As zany as ever, Mayor Oscar Goodman is.
- Union pushed; Trop fell
- Drama of biblical tale elevates music of ‘King David’
- Safe Bets
- Nevada Republicans bolt party line, support housing package
- CNA tips status quo, but doesn’t oust SEIU
- Beyond numbers and into the unquantifiable
- Sun journalists win Best of the West awards
- CityCenter still selling condos despite slowdown
- Las Vegas ambassador extraordinaire
Thursday, May 8
- Outrageous stonewalling
- Another mess at UMC
- Prices at the pump
- Overpopulation drains world water supplies
- Tyrants responsible for world famines
- 55-mph speed limit will save gas, money
- Divorce as political spectacle
- True sign of the times: Vegas tips are slipping
- Overcome with the power of the green movement
- Board chief fires back, backs off
- Transgender killer torn with guilt, searching still for identity
- 30 years later, still hungry
- Has he made the grade?
- Opening act has Las Vegas spirit with British accent
- Eclectic musical mix makes familiar sound
Wednesday, May 7
- A case for openness
- Voters in the dark
- No amnesty for deadbeats
- Let’s chart our nation back to greatness
- Don’t blame Obama for Wright’s rantings
- Despite sour ending, conference a success
- Regressive tax system won’t work
- Jon Ralston feels their pain, but would ask Jim and Dawn: Why now?
- Retired teachers’ health plan pact reached
- Better baseball betting
- UMC thefts on overtime alleged
- Through the valley of darkness
- Top ‘popera’ names in Vegas lights
- Community champion shows with pluck, little guy can win
- Peddling medical getaways
- They’ll always be champs
- Medical board refuses to release Desai complaints
- Adelson won’t relinquish fight to block Palazzo club
- For Dina Titus, it's good to be anointed
Tuesday, May 6
- OSHA needs help
- Too much secrecy
- Deceiving the public
- How could we have been so wrong about war?
- Mortgage bailout unfair to majority
- Obama changes tune on minister too late
- Let’s vote on issues, not trivial sidelights
- Nurses unions’ showdown starts today
- ‘Jersey Boys’ is all about the music
- Planned coal plant gives up its water source
- They have overcome
- The upside of anger: Neighbors meeting neighbors
- Teamsters may undercut members
- So Gov. Jim Gibbons chooses Cinco de Mayo, of all days, to propose an amnesty plan …
- Seven high schools could start drug tests
- Sideshow stars fondly recognized
- Given $50,000, he decides to run
Monday, May 5
- $1 billion boondoggle
- An unappetizing review
- Keep those guns packed
- Issues surrounding Obama now are superficial
- Overpopulation puts a strain on Earth
- Economy a lot worse than Bush, Cheney say
- So here was the lead paragraph ...
- Juleps, giant hats and cigar smoke
- It’s Barkley’s bag (maybe), but it doesn’t say much about him
- Revamped Pogo’s will be a cleaner place, maybe more musical
- Staging a comeback
- Music company scraps plan for theater space in historic building
- Mischief-making blockers are signature gatherers’ bane
- Porter’s nudge greenward
- Ross’ green light has shades of gray
- Businesses scurry to build defenses for possible unionizing onslaught
Sunday, May 4
- A greener Exxon Mobil?
- FDA in bad shape
- A real difference
- McCain is the best choice for our nation
- Rebate checks are a flimsy Band-Aid
- Air traffic must catch up with the times
- Honoring mobsters is the wrong way to go
- Blame GOP for the downfall of education
- Here’s a novel idea, Senator — a sequel
- If you don’t think some hunters have issues ...
- On safety, we could learn from NYC
- Everywhere, they are talking politics
- Rent hike redux at Cactus Ridge
- A coal-fired discussion
- Congress goes extra mile for homeowners
- In politics, spoils go to those who have fun
- Brian Greenspun knows a leader when he sees one
Saturday, May 3
- Voters left in the lurch
- The public’s health
- No more delays
- Energy crisis beyond leaders’ comprehension
- Ignoring Clinton votes is just plain wrong
- Fallen heroes deserve special recognition
- Now that the (mostly) subterranean drama ...
- Surprise! Strip’s an urban place
- Longtime school official to run for board
- Planning official up in arms over putdowns of Las Vegas
- Mending, one day at a time
- Prosecutors drop charges against Selimaj
- The Elevator
Friday, May 2
- Bush’s same old rhetoric
- Mortgage changes needed
- Billable hours?
- Why overpopulation isn’t the real problem
- Clinton’s war vote disqualifies her
- Obama would best answer 3 a.m. call
- So now that a judge has decided yet another initiative ...
- Jon Ralston lauds Gibbons’ spending commission, with a few conditions
- No crossing over
- Local government safety role to get a look
- Sorry, Oscar, you’re wrong
- State agent quits amid missing evidence inquiry
- Our concentration of resorts is cited as economic model
- Jurors, don’t expect any shut-eye in these courts
- Wisdom went with the words at Native Son
- Expo to introduce best-known, less-known arts groups
- Cruel world, unusual spirit
Thursday, May 1
- Give OSHA more teeth
- Win for open government
- Aviation disgrace
- Setting kids on right path starts at home
- What exactly has Bush accomplished?
- Obama, Clinton not in McCain’s league
- On Iraq war, don’t blame Congress
- Disputed charter school can’t be barred
- Losing ground
- Motocross weekend
- Desai tried but failed in car transaction
- Rep. Shelley Berkley has an opponent?
- Richards CSN’s likely pick, pleasing higher ed chief
- Fixed-game drama uses Rebels clip
- It’s over, but what a way to go
- Poor people’s advocate may need a little help itself
- He may fold ’em to just be Dad
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