Good for Culinary. Good for Las Vegas. The anti-union chatterboxes with the bad grammar and spelling skills: fail.

You know when the right-wing loons are trolling the webtubes when grammar and spelling go out the window.
I am happy that we have the Culinary Union in this town to point out that tax-protected monuments to artifice and graft don't hire teachers. The wingnuts don't like unions, but they don't like guv'mnt, either. So pack up and live in caves in the desert. Those of us who prefer civilization give two big thumbs up to D. Taylor and the union. (Of which I am not a member.)
Happy Thanksgiving!

Pat Mulroy would drain Lake Tahoe in a second if she could, and it benefited the developers... but she can't. The problem with all the scenarios of pumping water from somewhere else - defoliating the Great Basin, huge pipelines from the Mississippi, importing water from Canada, etc. - is that all these very, very expensive schemes are based on a supply-side assumption. That is, we just need to get more water and then everything will be fine. I think we have to be grownups and decide to live with the existing resource; that is, all the Colorado River users need to make modest cuts in consumption to preserve the stability of the river as a permanent water source.
But that's apparently sacrilege in a town based on the exploitation, destruction and disposal of all kinds of resources, human and natural.
So guess what? Dec. 1 the Clark County Commission, acting as the Las Vegas Valley Water District, is going to raise water rates for working families who have been doing a good job on conservation. That will keep the water flowing to developers and affluent water wasters!

Great review, Mishak. I saw the abbreviated and relatively lackluster show at Coachella, but Thursday night's performance was a relevation. Wasn't it amazing that during If It Be Your Will there wasn't a sound in the entire Colosseum, except those beautiful Webb sisters?
And 1,000 Kisses Deep - wow.

Thank you, Dina Titus. Two facts that rarely get repeated, but should be: America has among the lowest, if not the lowest, quality health care in the industrialized world. We had the most expensive by anyone's honest measure.
Uniquely in this, the country that I love: Giving the insurance industry a monopolistic control of life and death is not working, my friends on both the left and the right.

Great job, Tavares. The tragedy is that this did not have to happen. People reported the threat to the Mount Charleston Blue and other species years ago. There was essentially no response from federal and county agencies - except, perhaps, a lackluster program to monitor their disappearance.
The Endangered Species Act is supposed to be the law of the land, but when developers and their enablers - the county, federal and state governments, the Southern Nevada Water Authority - are in charge, we will see many, many species and biological diversity extinguished. Those who make policy for those agencies, and the profiteering interests who direct them, simply do not share the values of most Americans - that is, that unique species, and the natural world, have value: scientific, aesthetic and, most profoundly, roles in the complex interplay of life in this world.

I have to admit that although I have avidly read and listened to his music all my life, I had never seen Mr. Zimmerman live. I went without high expectations; I wanted to catch a view of history while I still could.
I was pleasantly surprised. The new sound system at the Joint was up to the task, and Charlie Sexton, the virtuoso picker, really rocked the show. I was surprised, too, by the horn accompaniment on a couple of the early songs. A lot of contemporary songwriters could still learn a lot from Bob.

Song list:

1. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Bob on keyboard)
2. The Man In Me (Bob center stage on harp, Donnie on trumpet)
3. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bob on guitar)
4. Beyond Here Lies Nothin' (Bob on keyboard, Donnie on trumpet)
5. Spirit On The Water (Bob on keyboard and harp)
6. Forgetful Heart (Bob center stage on harp, Donnie on violin)
7. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum (Bob center stage on harp)
8. Beyond The Horizon (Bob on keyboard and harp)
9. Cold Irons Bound (Bob center stage on harp)
10. Tryin' To Get To Heaven (Bob on keyboard and harp)
11. Highway 61 Revisited (Bob on keyboard)
12. Po' Boy (Bob on keyboard)
13. Thunder On The Mountain (Bob on keyboard)
14. Ballad Of A Thin Man (Bob center stage on harp)

(encore)
15. Like A Rolling Stone (Bob on keyboard)
16. Jolene (Bob on keyboard)
17. All Along The Watchtower (Bob on keyboard)

Great story, Kristen!

The big builders, the developers and the financiers have ripped off, bullied and bought the public for so long, we don't even realize we're being taken. Good for the unions for trying to balance the scale of justice!

Yes. How sad this would happen in Summerlin. Clearly it would be acceptable in a less-affluent area.