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- Another potential buyer emerges for Fontainebleau
- Mandarin Oriental spa puts service first
- Rebels try to avoid the ‘trap’ at Santa Clara
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- Strip to be closed for Sunday marathon
- Kirk Kerkorian: CityCenter is ‘simply the most amazing’ Vegas project ever
- Banks pressured to be more helpful
- Rain - possibly even snow - heading to Las Vegas
- Gorman cruises past Del Sol for championship
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The Kats Report
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Dawn Gibbons' story: First lady talks about divorce, humiliation, fears (16 Comments)
The Kats Report
Kirk Kerkorian: CityCenter is 'simply the most amazing' Vegas project ever (16 Comments)
Robin Leach's Las Vegas Celebrity Watch
Great Santa Run: Unofficial 14,595 runners would be a new record
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Rampage Jackson to return to UFC (3 Comments)
Politics: Ralston's Flash
Superintendents want state to immediately seek Race to Top funds (1 Comment)
Top Chef: Las Vegas
The Jet Stream: The great Jennifer debate (2 Comments)
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Save Tony Verdugo fundraiser at Jet
Jet | 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
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Rockhouse’s Rodeo Roundup
Rockhouse Bar & Nightclub | 10 p.m. to 11:59 p.m.
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Dom Irrera at the Riviera Comedy Club
The Riviera
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Football specials at Diablo's
Diablos Cantina
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While there are several issues that could be clarified in this editorial, the one about contractors not being less expensive deserves some comment. The CBO report focused on the very high end contractors (former military with years in the service, specialized diplomatic security training, background checks for secret clearances etc.) and compared them to average soldiers. Only a small fraction of security contractors are Americans, the vast majority are locals who are as useful as American soldiers at most security tasks - better in some cases because they have the language skills. We can contract about 30 local security contractors for the cost of every GI we support in Iraq. Care to look at the savings issue again?
Doug Brooks
President, IPOA