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What might result from a national airing of Ensign’s dirty laundry: Sunday, November 22, 2009; COMMENTARY:; By Jon Ralston; Mark down 8:35 p.m. PT Monday: That’s when the plug will be pulled on John Ensign’s grand delusion, the moment, as the Wachowski brothers might appreciate, that the Matrix is revealed and the grotesque reality becomes unavoidable.

Health care decisions should be the peoples’: Sunday, November 22, 2009; BRIAN GREENSPUN: WHERE I STAND:; By Brian Greenspun; How’s this for timing? Here was Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, ready to unveil his long-awaited Senate health care bill — a bill that, while it has drawn the usual complaints from the usual suspects, hasn’t been dismissed as unworkable or unreasonable. And then, unexpected, was an announcement about detection of breast cancer that suddenly overshadowed the entire health care debate.

Schumacher adds star power to go-kart finals’ horsepower: Saturday, November 21, 2009; Ron Kantowski:; By Ron Kantowski; When I heard from an old racing pal that Michael Schumacher would be racing go-karts on the parking lot at the Rio this weekend, I told him I wasn’t interested, because I was covering Tiger Woods’ putt-putt match against Phil Mickelson. Then it was over to the Laughing Jackalope where U2 was playing a benefit for a school chum who had lost it all by hitting a hard 16. And after that, Pele said he’d give me a chance to get even on the foosball table.

The Elevator: Sanford edition: Saturday, November 21, 2009; By Ron Kantowski; Sounds like an old Saturday morning cartoon, doesn’t it? When Steve “Chopper” Jones and freshmen Anthony Marshall and Justin Hawkins checked into the game in the second half against Nevada-Reno on Wednesday night, UNLV trailed by 12 points. When they went back to the end of the bench, the Rebels led by seven. Heavens to Murgatroyd, Snagglepuss!

Officially, they want to be regulated, but ...: Friday, November 20, 2009; THE INSIDE STRAIGHT: Unofficially, large online poker sites have the best of both worlds; By Jeff Haney; The state of the online poker business in America is ... still muddled.

Why having 10 candidates doesn’t help GOP: Friday, November 20, 2009; By Jon Ralston; There was this moment during the first forum of the 2010 U.S. Senate race Thursday that encapsulates the Republican Party’s problem and could undermine its unprecedented opportunity to excise the Senate majority leader from the D.C. landscape:

Tina Kunzer-Murphy won't be next UNLV athletic director: Thursday, November 19, 2009; Ron Kantowski: Kunzer-Murphy might make a great athletic director for UNLV, but now is not the time; By Ron Kantowski; Tina Kunzer-Murphy is out of the running to become UNLV’s next athletic director before the real running even begins.

Ralston awaits political theater of Gibbons’ Last Gasp: Wednesday, November 18, 2009; By Jon Ralston; Take this prediction to the bank: The next session of the Nevada Legislature will not commence as scheduled on Feb. 7, 2011, but sometime next year, perhaps as early as January.

World Series of Poker shows new breed of poker pros: Wednesday, November 18, 2009; Popularity of game has led to legit card players popping up from all lines of work; By Jeff Haney; The thumbnail sketches of the two ultimate survivors at last week’s World Series of Poker final table were familiar to anyone who follows the game.

Two paths to improvement for UNLV's football team: Tuesday, November 17, 2009; RON KANTOWSKI : One way, but maybe not the only way, is to spend millions more; By Ron Kantowski; The hills are alive with the sound of ... well, that isn’t exactly music now, is it? It’s the cacophony of UNLV football fans suggesting cures for what has ailed the program since the advent of the face mask and two platoons.

Talk turns to Manny Pacquiao ﬁght with Floyd Mayweather Jr.: Monday, November 16, 2009; ‘Whole world’ wants to see it, Pacquiao’s trainer says; By Jeff Haney; Grandiose pronouncements were uttered about when and where negotiations would begin for a proposed fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Running the state revenue structure meeting through a truth filter: Sunday, November 15, 2009; COMMENTARY:; By Jon Ralston; If only someone spiked the java with truth serum before Thursday’s meeting of the Subcommittee to Conduct a Review of Nevada’s Revenue Structure, which will appoint members of the Nevada Vision Stakeholder Group (what’s in a name?).

More evidence of a broken tax system: Friday, November 13, 2009; By Jon Ralston; The Pew report, though thorough and insightful, breaks no new ground for those familiar with Nevada’s financial cataclysm.

Gondo’s pal tries to ﬁll void on Rebels air: Thursday, November 12, 2009; Ron Kantowski:; By Ron Kantowski; The final chapter of Glen Gondrezick’s career as a UNLV Rebel was written Tuesday night, 104 feet beneath where his jersey hangs from the rafters at the Thomas & Mack Center.

One for the ages: Thursday, November 12, 2009; Pacquiao-Cotto match drawing international attention, might set pay-per-view record; By Jeff Haney; When Manny Pacquiao was hailed as the hottest boxer in the sport at Wednesday’s prefight news conference at the MGM Grand, it was not just lip service.

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