- Stories
- Next foreclosure wave building with defaults on fixed-rate loans
- Monday, June 8, 2009
- Back in 2000, long before subprime lending to credit-risky homebuyers overheated the housing market, Rosemary Murphy used her financial good standing to pay for a house the old-fashioned way. She’s now in trouble.
- Col. Chris Chambliss
- Monday, June 1, 2009
- After two years as the first commander of the Air Force’s only dedicated unmanned aircraft wing, Col. Chris Chambliss hands over the reins today in a typical rotation of command.
- Transfer order doesn’t wait for real estate to rebound
- Wednesday, May 27, 2009
- Brian O’Neill bought his house in Aliante in April 2006 for $360,000. It’s now worth less than half that. His is a familiar story in the Las Vegas Valley, but he’s in a worse predicament: Uncle Sam has ordered him to move.
- Obama finds Bush-era language a sticky thing
- Thursday, May 21, 2009
- President Barack Obama hasn’t been shy about trying to scrub his predecessor’s lexicon from popular parlance, most notably ditching “Global War on Terrorism.” Obama prefers “Overseas Contingency Operation.”
- Helicopter pilot school at Nellis on hold so trainers can fly in Afghanistan
- Tuesday, May 12, 2009
- The war in Afghanistan is stretching the ranks of the Air Force’s search-and-rescue helicopter pilots so thin, the service had to cancel an advanced training course so it could send the instructors to the front lines.
- He brought limo service to Vegas
- Friday, May 8, 2009
- Jim Bell moved to Las Vegas from Montana in 1967 to join his uncle’s Whittlesea Taxi Service.
- Find a voice, sure, but find a paycheck, too
- Thursday, May 7, 2009
- John Hill has a message for wannabe writers: Forget heart and think commercial.
- Who’s friending you next? The U.S. military
- Tuesday, May 5, 2009
- The U.S. military, long a champion of rigid, no-nonsense communications, is stepping into the freewheeling realm of social media.
- Antiseptic made here can’t sanitize hands here
- Monday, May 4, 2009
- A Las Vegas company that makes a hand sanitizer capable of warding off the swine flu virus for four hours has been fielding calls madly from Canada, Great Britain, Mexico and from across the United States.
- Nellis earns honors in Air Force competition
- Friday, April 24, 2009
- Nellis Air Force Base is runner-up in the competition for best installation worldwide in the Air Force.
Blog Entries
- Union group launches TV ad campaign
- Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009
- Early voting ends tonight
- Friday, Oct. 31, 2008
- If you don’t want to wait until Nov. 4 to cast your vote, get to the polls some time today because early voting ends tonight.
- 'Card check' ads bypassing Nevada
- Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008
- Both business and pro-union groups are flooding the airwaves with battling ads about the Employee Free Choice Act, but you won't see any of them here.
- Middle school gets solar education grant
- Friday, Oct. 17, 2008
- It’s all about being green these days – and it’s best to catch folks when they’re young so habits stick.
- Californians arrive just in time for early voting
- Friday, Oct. 17, 2008
- ‘Morning, Sun readers. It’s Friday! Not that it matters much for this reporter: with the general election 18 days away, it’s all politics all the time – including the weekends. Early voting starts tomorrow for those who want to cast their vote and tune out until ballots are counted Nov. 4.
- Titus: Here’s what I’ll do for the military
- Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008
- No politician is anti-veteran, so it isn’t exactly earth shattering when one calls a press conference to express support for the country’s military.
- Nevada political roundup
- Monday, Oct. 13, 2008
- All work and no play this weekend for American and European leaders, and it looks like it might be paying off.
- Nevada political roundup: Stocks slide, VP candidates
- Friday, Oct. 10, 2008
- Nevada political roundup: Porter-Titus close, Buckley hits the road
- Friday, Sept. 26, 2008
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