Robberies involving Craigslist are on the rise. Police in Milwaukee just announced they would allow people to meet in their stations to conduct Craigslist transactions. Metro should consider the same.

At least with this puppet, we know who's pulling the strings.

Homeowner apathy is a huge problem. There are 400+ houses in my HOA and we are having a hard time filling an empty seat on the board. If you don't like what your HOA is doing, run for the board and change things!

"Athletics are the gateway to the university," Leavitt said. "It's how we introduce the university to the rest of the nation and the rest of the world."

And it's why UNLV will always be known as a basketball-lovin' party school and not a top-flight university. I'm not telling Mendenhall or his pals how to spend their money, but $11.7m would go a long way toward making this a better ACADEMIC institution. We all know how little interest there is in educational achievement in Las Vegas and Nevada as a whole, as shown by our 45% high school dropout rate. Yet people want to blame unions, liberals and immigrants for the lack of decent-paying jobs. If you were a tech company CEO looking to expand, would you choose Las Vegas, where barely half of kids graduate high school? Would better basketball facilities influence your decision? Do you think Raleigh-Durham or San Francisco are science and technology hubs because UNC and Cal have good sports teams?

UNLV is cutting entire academic departments and Nevada Sate College may cease to exist, but at least the basketball team has nice digs.

You guys are free to publish what you want, but we all see (or rather, fast-forward through) plenty of political ads and we all know they're 90% distortion and 10% outright falsehood. Do we really need to read an article about every new ad that some soft money PAC churns out?

You really expect me to believe Boise's narrow win over a poor Va Tech team and thrashing some horrible MWC, C-USA and WAC teams means they're the best team in the country? Play two games a year against anyone from the Big 10, Big 12 or SEC and I'll start to take them seriously.

Other top Labor Day destinations are New York, Chicago, and Denver.

Hertz weekly rates for a Nissan Sentra, September 16-23:

New York LaGuardia: $436.49
Chicago O'Hare: $312.79
Denver International: $392.39
Las Vegas McCarran: $169.57

As for the taxes and fees, the biggest fee on the list is the airport facility fee. Here's a tip: don't rent at the airport.

The car is a Nissan Sentra, 2007 or later. The front grille was redesigned on the 2010 model; from the video it appears to have the older grille.

It's not a 2-door as reported above.

Which also explains why Mr. Sun's voice is so squeaky.