Story archive for February 2008
Friday, Feb. 29
- The latest on the ricin incident (UPDATED)
- Columbia Sussex found in default, but it still breathes a sigh of relief
- On death's door
- Endoscopy center closed by the city today
- Nevada Ballet selects interim artistic director
- Body found at Sunset Park
- Former treasurer fronts for Sands initiatives
- Last year's champ eliminated in heads-up poker tourney
- Bruton Smith mum on second race
- Gondolier Numero Uno strikes!
- Leaving Las Vegas, for the Suburbs
- Heat taking its toll
- Dust warning for the weekend
- Helicopter lands hard after losing power
- Clinton releases scare ad against Obama
- Terrifying news
- Money for nothing
- Out of sight?
- Service to our country should be expected
- Local libraries are doing a great job
- Sense of community felt at convention
- Conservative think tanks benefit wealthy
- Redemption and a governor in need of help
- Ron Kantowski on why the National Finals Rodeo isn’t likely to leave Las Vegas
- A hero's value
- Large-scale hepatitis alert has no precedent
- Classical music, where you wouldn’t expect it
- A good age for a stripper
- The e-mails are still pouring in.
- Jeff Haney on why bettors are racing to sports books to back Nevadans against Tar Heel drivers on Sunday
- Hepatitis scare malpractice cases already in works
- Agencies slip in registering poor to vote
- Close-knit community offers comfort
- Clinic cut corners for profit, critics say
- Fallout feared if Gibbonses split up
- Losing a lesser palace
Thursday, Feb. 28
- Biological toxin found in Las Vegas motel
- Thomas pleads not guilty; trial date set
- Sunday's race is sold out -- sort of
- Democrat Derby espied in Washington
- Boyd's bad news, good news
- It's always something in Reno
- Marital problems at the governor's mansion
- Dismissed Rebel was driving friend's car
- Gamblers still spending despite economic woes, Harrah's says
- Sun 'experts' make their picks
- Nevada Palace sign headed for Neon Boneyard
- Hepatitis C hotline available
- Pregnant teen's fetus dies after crash
- Judge says no to extending O.J. Simpson's trial date
- St. George rallies against coal plant
- Free speech prevails
- Misplacing the blame
- Long wait for families
- Both Democrats can win; one can best lead
- Why the U.S. must control its borders
- Stop distorting what atheism is truly about
- U.S. survived for years without ‘God’ in pledge
- I think I read “God and Men at Yale” at Cornell...
- Garbage hauler’s been cleaning up on overfilled bins
- ‘A Bronx Tale’ may squeeze in Vegas stop
- Bracket busters
- To keep teachers in classrooms
- Historic Huntridge could face destruction
- Family comedian finds a place on the Strip
- In front of father, Rizzolo called mob ‘hoodlum’
- UAW-Dodge 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup series race
- Clubs’ cash flow suspect
- Officials: Clinic procedures put thousands at risk
Wednesday, Feb. 27
- MGM CityCenter sets sales record
- Congress, White House at odds over foreclosure relief
- Suspect in Monday shooting arrested (UPDATED)
- Atlantic City to follow Vegas in attempt to woo foodies
- Motorcyclist dies after crash
- Hey, NASCAR: Fix qualifying
- El Cortez joins First Friday
- Nevada redux
- Hepatitis C outbreak springs from Endoscopy Center of Nevada; 40,000 at risk
- UNR: No brew for you?
- College loan workshop Thursday night
- Motorcyclist killed on Boulder Highway
- Wynn Las Vegas adds even more luxe to luxurious resort
- NASCAR drivers to make appearances (UPDATED)
- Fill in the blank for Dale Jr.
- Las Vegas author offers book free online
- Emissions dispute arises about proposed coal plant
- Lesson from UMC fiasco
- What really happened?
- Columbus sailed when?
- Some in Summerlin have wrong attitude
- Tap professional for do-over convention
- Need seen, yet again, for a primary
- Health care already available for all
- Why McCain just can’t stop smiling
- A perfect example of why the county Democratic Party failed
- Wink Adams, money from the charity stripe
- Winners, losers in health care deal
- Artists give back in ‘Funk-Raiser’
- Quick fix and Dems’ debacle may be history
- His job: Bring Vegas’ workforce up to speed
- Jeff Haney on the odds on top players in the upcoming Heads-Up Poker Championship
- Florida casino-owning tribe says, ‘We’ll stick to home’
- Someone doing favors for lobbyists being lost
- Plan to build in Las Vegas? City won’t hold its breath
- Bookstores aren’t our thing, but Vegas has literary life
- No win-win for Wynn, former dealer
Tuesday, Feb. 26
- UNLV's Adams plays through pain
- Victim in O.J. case now suing witnesses
- Gamers strike back -- again
- Protection sought for Amargosa Toad
- Earthquake felt in Britain
- Mr. Gibbons goes to Washington
- Eh? Wadya say?
- See the San Francisco Opera in Las Vegas
- Republicans: Yeah, let's talk about Iraq
- One hour to national coffee blackout
- State Democrats preparing to handle the county delegates convention (UPDATED)
- St. George to have say on Mesquite coal plant
- Who is the most exciting driver in Sprint Cup?
- Reno getting new ball yard
- Happiest place on earth even closer to Las Vegas
- Humana to buy Las Vegas Medicare plans from UnitedHealth
- Convention mess
- Seeing roofs as energy
- Close this loophole
- Democrats better get their act together
- A preamble in Second Amendment?
- We need to teach right from wrong
- Check clothing to determine truth
- Hotels find new gold mine: Small groups that come to work, play
- A love affair with Las Vegas
- Shooting rattles affluent suburb
- Testimony: Thomas boldly cut iffy deals
- Transporter carries the team’s dreams
- Jewel unearthed at low-budget breakfast concert
- Porter, Heller in cross hairs of new anti-war blitz
- Cliches about the Democratic Party
- Krolicki investigator taken off the case
Monday, Feb. 25
- AG weighs in on Sierra-UnitedHealth merger
- And the Oscar goes to...
- Three separate shootings leave police scrambling
- Justice Department: Sierra-UnitedHealth merger ok — if United gives up Medicare HMO business
- Las Vegas man arrested in Illinois investment scam
- Sprint cars invade Las Vegas dirt track
- Hilton posts line on baseball season-win totals
- Bullish on Brazil
- Unearthing Nevada's forgotten Chinese Heritage
- Author's Las Vegas book rides high on bestseller lists
- UNLV playing for keeps over next two weeks
- Johnson favored to win UAW-Dodge 400
- White not out of D-Fenders' picture
- Keeping the Hard Promises
- Shoshone-Bannock tribe to purchase Las Vegas Strip land
- Nader blasts use of 'spoiler' label
- Immunity that’s just wrong
- U.S. Air Force needs money
- Protecting older workers
- No logic in blasting NRA for nation’s violence
- Washington needs a fresh approach
- Electing Obama has dire consequences
- GOP will have field day with Obama’s past
- Doing the right thing is most important
- If you want wedding legalities low-key, this is the place
- Orchestra rises to challenge
- ADDING A CO-DRIVER
- Slip in award’s value worries first Millennium scholar
- This is as shocking as Switzerland declaring war ...
- School with rich history takes a leading role
- Once again, a plan for renewing the Moulin Rouge
- Would two NASCAR races be twice as good for Vegas?
- Vegas man’s case a test for lethal injections
Sunday, Feb. 24
- Nevada Solar One Generator Dedicated
- Las Vegas ‘Foreclosure Express’ bus tour
- Nader jumps in
- Breaking gridlock
- Governor all wet
- Widening education gap
- A wonderful man who deserved better
- G.I. Bill a smarter way to repay troops
- Gibbons on target with desalinization
- God has place in society and in pledge
- Romney is the biggest panderer of them all
- Jon Ralston on why the governor’s suggestion to build a desalinization plant misses the point
- Here’s your park back; we don’t want it
- Brian Greenspun finds progress in India — and tests for its democracy
- Dreams take center stage
- Health care merger’s delay has investors sweating
- Ex-official’s appeal to be heard at UNLV
- Feeding at the trough
- Jeff Simpson: Palms Place condo tower will be a success
- Convention ends in chaos, so Dems need a do-over
- Since the Oscars are tonight ...
- ON THE STRIP, A SIGN OF PEACE
- McCain, Heller may help each other
- Up on the roof, idea takes root, but it may not work in Vegas
- With aid, more roofs could catch rays
Saturday, Feb. 23
- Democrats do indeed suspend convention
- UNLV beats Wyoming, 73-65
- Clark County Democrats overwhelmed by turnout
- Oops, reports of suspension premature
- Clark County Dems suspend caucus voting
- Democrats irate over today's convention
- Early tally for Clinton
- Caucus rules could prolong fight for Democratic delegates
- Confused scene at Democratic convention
- Those cheers weren't for Ryan Newman
- Nevada Democrats still playing a role
- Naming names
- An online remedy?
- Old-fashioned play
- McCain’s criticism of Obama is hypocritical
- Bush should take care of Americans first
- With social problems, it isn’t so simple
- Blame criminals, not the NRA, for crime
- Pay, treat teachers better to attract them
- Baccarat in the sky
- The Elevator
- Adventurer knew threat to rally was real
- Clinton spent big for rooms on Strip; Obama workers stayed with backers
- English-only rule on bus relaxed
- News helicopter no-fly zone in shooting arouses suspicion
- Seasonal layoffs called typical, not a bellwether
- Baseball on the brain
- Here’s how one Democratic delegate ...
Friday, Feb. 22
- Hundreds gather to remember slain student
- Cosmo dodges foreclosure; Hyatt to manage the hotel
- Regulators fine Fox TV in Las Vegas
- Rebels finally headed to satellite
- Plea for higher ed money goes online
- Wells residents still shaking from quake
- Gaming company slapped for not registering employees with the state
- Clinton, Obama reminding delegates to show up tomorrow
- UNLV hoping to rebound from lopsided BYU loss
- California Speedway announces name change
- Reid not picking sides in Clinton-Obama contest
- Targeting hospital errors
- No good answers
- A new space race?
- Do it for the kids: Cameras in school zones
- Guns self-fulfillingprophecy of death
- Health care plan had no chance with GOP
- Gibbons’ water plan on the right track
- Gun range has nobusiness near school
- Trust, and fairness, will be in short supply at the convention
- Out of tape, plastic and a ‘motel’
- In trial, beleaguered lawyer’s team fights a photo
- Las Vegas doctor’s cancer drug accepted for human testing
- Neighbors against apartments have to hold fire
- Pro beach volleyball
- All the talk about Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama
- Oddsmakers have own rankings
- Won’t slow down for kids? Well, then, expect a ticket
- Get down with the blues, up with comedic magic
- Chief: Answers have to wait for inquest
- At twice the price, UMC still saves $230,000
- Ron Kantowski reads the writing on the wall for a UNLV women’s coach who deserves to stay
Thursday, Feb. 21
- Henderson police chief responds to officer-involved shooting
- Investor sells Stratosphere and 3 other Nevada casinos
- Man shot near Bonanza H.S. (UPDATED)
- The battle for delegates here continues
- Cubs tickets on sale March 3
- Bill Richardson, passing the hat
- Web site shutdown raises questions
- 6.0 quake shakes Wells, Nev. (UPDATED)
- MGM Mirage: What economic downturn?
- Executive changes at MGM Mirage
- Home News: Witness disputes police account
- Earthquake did not damage power lines
- Obama adds 11 to his belt
- An idea that was too cliche
- The market’s fallout
- EPA favored industry
- Go Army, go cash
- Democrats should unite behind Obama
- Give Bill Clinton credit for good works
- Romney was the only one worth voting for
- Slaughterhouse cruelty must end
- Ron Kantowski explains how UNLV and BYU can beat each other so badly
- Citing her party’s gains, Derby to take on Heller
- How he saw it
- A soul of the South
- Thought the caucuses were wild? Just wait
- Welcome to Gov. Jim Gibbons' rosy parallel universe
- After years away, he's game to play
- Indictment says UMC chief made no-work deals
- Gibbons takes another whack at pipeline plan
- Baseball, Oscars: Let early spring’s games begin
Wednesday, Feb. 20
- Las Vegas makes the list of another magazine, but for a good reason
- McCain's self-confidence on ethics could harm his image
- IRS "raids" Pure Nightclub
- Memorial for Sports Writer
- Another Vegas influence on Dubai
- Beth Lisick returns to close the Reading Room
- NASCAR: Getting there only half the battle
- Marilyn Monroe, Madonna . . .What's the difference?
- Former UMC boss indicted
- Guantanamo detainees: political objectives vs fair trials
- Killing victim identified
- Man killed in home robbery
- Bam! (Burp!) Martha gobbles Emeril
- Boulder City police kept busy
- A few thoughts on the Daytona 500
- Clinton unable to slow down Obama
- Breakthrough in housing
- She’s one to talk
- Cuba liberated? Not yet
- Let’s not omit important tax history
- You get what you pay for in this country
- Why drug testing of teens is critical
- On battling germs, gridlock in Congress
- Honor those who keep U.S. free
- Change the phrase ‘under God’ in pledge
- Goodman is egocentric as usual
- Squeezed season to test Rebels
- Roads need new billions, but will Gibbons go along?
- Airing of charter tensions set
- If you plan to drive, plan to dig deep, local transportation expert says
- Loving man helped us realize what matters
- Valley schools embrace mariachi
- State, U.S. preparing loan fraud crackdown
- Next Big Thing? Working on it.
- Jeff Haney shares a Henderson man’s idea for a new poker format: Deal card wizards the same hands and see who can play ’em best
- Two shows couldn’t be more different — or more Vegas
- ‘Mamma Mia!’ actor’s back, and you won’t believe how he’s aged
- Conversations with my daughter
Tuesday, Feb. 19
- Derby expected to announce her candidacy Wednesday for Heller's congressional seat (UPDATED)
- Sen. Reid accuses coal industry of using "the old Hitler lie"
- NLV shooting leaves one dead (UPDATED)
- Daytona 500 ads deliver laughs
- Without Castro, Cuba's government unlikely to change
- Couture club
- Undefeated British boxer's first U.S. fight to be in Vegas
- UNLV soccer kicks off spring exhibition season against German opponent (UPDATED)
- Tonight: Krysa conducts his father, the violinist
- Clark County students shine in Nevada Regional Science Bowl
- Crowded courts
- Blatantly partisan politics
- An era of scrutiny
- Why not display odds on slot machines?
- Better use of space should be a priority
- Silver not the right choice to head UMC
- We don’t need a man in the White House
- Hillary Clinton failed reforming health care
- Cellist’s ties to teacher benefit UNLV
- At rest at last in Las Vegas
- A year later, justice still elusive for Urbanskis
- Housing market downturn hits new low
- For a cause, Oscar night glitz will be copied in Las Vegas
- For Sonny Liston, a sad, strange ending in Nevada
- Build homes in the desert, and the poor will come
- Code red
- Just a little bit longer, Baby
- It’s possible Yvonne Atkinson Gates still lives in Nevada
- Not far from boxing great lies forgotten lefty hurler
Monday, Feb. 18
- UNLV basketball coach dismisses guard
- Howdy Duddy
- Controversy over alleged videotaped interrogations
- Mayweather back in the ring -- a wrestling ring
- Putting foreclosures on the map
- Mayor Oscar Goodman's comments here don't go unnoticed elsewhere
- Deadly consequences
- Nightmare continues
- Can’t touch this
- Congressional elections are important too
- Spielberg courageous to snub China
- McCain shunned for bipartisanship
- Wars at root of domestic problems
- Bush, like Queeg, is becoming irrelevant
- Taylor handles loss like a true pro
- After 20 years, desert race returns
- Up for rethinking: Ban on cell phones in sports books
- Quickie divorce in state not as easy as this guy thought
- County seeks a loyal lobbyist to call its own
- A quarter of the coach’s knowledge
- Brassy, just like Bette
- Democracy? Not really
- Save the date, folks ...
- Fire alarm doesn’t mean fire department is coming
Sunday, Feb. 17
- Body of missing college student found in Reno field
- Murder suspects claim victim ordered hit on himself
- A tragic situation
- Outstanding student
- Coal is not the future
- Want better education? Pay teachers better
- Throwing mud at McCain is dirty play
- Teenagers unfairly targeted for testing
- History shows that Democrats raise taxes
- Jon Ralston outlines the ways in which a lawsuit filed can rectify the irresponsible governing of years past
- Jeff Simpson is betting on the big guys who are betting that the future of Vegas is still unlimited
- UMC pick: What kind of success?
- Old Vegas drew dreamers, toughs
- Brian Greenspun joins tributes to worthy men
- Retired rear admiral: Smallpox scare was a misunderstanding, false alarm
- State Dems: Caucus tab worth it
- In executive suites, some see split in caucus as sign of union’s weakness
- Even in stars’ presence, politics grabs the spotlight
- Courtroom: Break for lunch, see ya tomorrow
- Don’t worry: Your slot bets are still safe
- If you want to know what separates Republicans from Democrats ...
- Delays of the land
Saturday, Feb. 16
- Pavlik defeats Taylor by unanimous decision
- BYU rips Rebels, 74-48
- The Daytona 500 is finally here
- No more excuses
- Question of decency
- ‘Not for sissies’
- Government not built for immediate change
- NAFTA issue not as simple as it may seem
- Celebrate strength of young U.S. minds
- Drug war takes a hit with softer sentence
- The Elevator
- He's fighting for his suburb
- Kicking and screaming fail to keep day care center away
- The Henderson cops ...
- Kelly Pavlik vs. Jermain Taylor II
- Some say setting fees every two years gives universities a blank check
- How many new rooms? Let’s just say, a lot
- They hear no evil, but hustle to spot it
Friday, Feb. 15
- UNLV guard Marcus Lawrence arrested for DUI
- Two men shot in separate incidents (UPDATED)
- Mitt who?
- Fixing the initiative process?
- Female body found in Reno field
- UNLV's visit to BYU could be an NCAA tourney preview
- Police identify teen killed in rollover accident
- Reversing course, national SEIU settles on Obama
- Firefighters rescue North Las Vegas family from carbon monoxide leak
- Suspect in Northern Illinois University campus shooting identified - still no motive
- Enforcing the rules
- Weapons gone missing
- The Rocket fizzles
- Those poor, poor Bush nominees
- No more messianic incompetence
- Right-wing agenda just wishful thinking
- Student drug testing unjust and too costly
- Jon Ralston is a fly on the wall of the governor’s office
- Reelection fight ahead, Porter flies solo
- Meet Kim Bonney, Rebels swimmer
- One goof — now schools’ reputations are at stake
- Hope pinned on celebrities to help revive PGA stop
- Jeff Haney notes that it’s Earnhardt in the lead, headed toward Daytona
- Homeowners saw carrot, get delay
- Mitt Romney’s endorsement of John McCain
- Students rage about flighty helicopter school
- ‘Make my funk the p-funk!’
- Behold, the tiny, beguiling future
- Pianist — punchy, witty, clever and funny, yes. Dull, no.
- Right to work — without work cards
Thursday, Feb. 14
- Man opens gunfire inside classroom at Northern Illinois University
- Metro police arrest four in Valentine's Day shooting
- Century Steel of Las Vegas goes for $151 million
- Poll positioned
- Taxicab Authority gets new exec
- Heller given choice assignment
- President Bush urges House to pass 'spy bill' and grant 'immunity'
- Harry and Mitch: What a crazy pair
- Too much news can make it tough
- Snow dusts the city
- New life to REI Neon's downtown arena plans
- 40,000 new rooms in Las Vegas? Maybe not
- Resistant, immune...Let's call the whole thing off
- Officer identified in potential "suicide by cop" incident
- Romney to endorse McCain
- Nevada needs more than coal
- Would it hurt you to at least call?
- Services set for Freddie Bell
- Creator of Howard the Duck dies in Las Vegas
- Judge should step aside
- Reconstruction disaster
- Bush’s misguided mission
- Iraq war deaths can’t be ignored any longer
- Telling the truth about Boggs case
- Determining who is tough on terror
- All students should be tested for drugs
- Pledge is about loyalty, freedoms
- Way beyond vocational training
- Nevada doesn’t need coal-fired plants, ‘green’ report says
- From boxing’s backwater, Ohioan energizing sport
- It was a mischievous question
- We're not that fat
- Seeing red in the checkered flag
- Among national peers, Sun reporter is tops
- Missing drugs and guns, heavy criticism, then resignation
- New ammo in fight to stop health insurance merger
- Wedding chapels look for PR splash as Vegas tries to clean up industry
- Comings and goings in the Las Vegas art scene
- Good times — risk-taking musician, his harmonica and the stage
Wednesday, Feb. 13
- Looking ahead at Las Vegas' transportation system
- Lights are on, but no one's home... (UPDATED)
- Vegas needs YOUR vote!
- Wynn shares plummet after boss's warning
- Teenage girl killed after rollover accident
- Dust advisory issued
- Henderson Cops Decline Invite
- Buckley asks the quintet for help
- Woman dies from officer-involved shooting
- Las Vegas foreclosure rate still soaring
- Metro investigates shooting death of teenager
- Dunkin' Donuts to bring lunch to Las Vegas
- Car of Tomorrow looks good at Daytona
- University cuts
- Putting a name to a face
- Saved from reality
- Bush economy is a fragile house of cards
- Blackwater actions put in perspective
- Pledge wasn’t meant to be about religion
- Abandon respect and lose your rights
- U.S. a republic, not a democracy
- Jon Ralston finds himself defending the hard-to-defend Lynette Boggs
- Schools need money. How best to ask?
- More fun for him than the audience
- Glitch puts grand jury on hold over UMC
- Business-friendly bus passes aimed at traffic
- Trucks will be out for NASCAR weekend — recycling trucks
- David Spade
- Jeff Haney highlights the betting opportunities that stand out in the future book for the NBA and college hoops
- In school, but without a home
- Steps against doctors’ exploiters
- Republicans couldn’t resist
- Ron Kantowski says it wouldn’t hurt UNLV to give a big fibber a big scholarship, because he’s not the only dreamer among us
Tuesday, Feb. 12
- Take 5: Rebels 58, Air Force 51
- Students of closed Las Vegas helicopter school search for answers
- National nightmare over, Oscars saved
- Obama wins White House... at wax museum
- Police shooting under investigation (UPDATED)
- Beagle looks to beat long odds
- Metro investigating youth shooting
- Las Vegas' airport isn't keeping up with the city's resort growth
- Latest trend in Valentine's Day Vegas weddings
- Metro releases ID of man who attempted "suicide by cop"
- Those were the days...
- Protest planned for Thursday evening on the Strip
- Steroids yes, Rebels-Air Force no
- Lake Mead may dry by 2021
- Plan announced to stall foreclosures
- World Series of Poker
- Bet on the poodle
- Huckabee staying in
- Romney’s twisted world
- Rejecting a bad policy
- Tom Lantos, 1928-2008
- Gibbons doing what must be done for state
- Student had every right to stay in seat
- Our leaders need to think more deeply
- Our nation practices warped democracy
- GOP has lots to learn about conservatism
- Small victory for Sun City Summerlin residents: Builder fined for no-shows
- Ron Kantowski marvels at UNLV coach Lon Kruger’s civic-mindedness
- Well-known and live, at Arizona Charlie’s
- A winner wherever he goes
- With each move, coach turns another college program around
- Happily, back as King Arthur
- In UMC corruption case, shoe to drop soon
- Drug testing students might spread beyond Green Valley
- No one paid much attention
- Vegas sees needed water, rural counties see ‘fraud’
- One death, two scenarios
Monday, Feb. 11
- Siegfried & Roy: One more show
- Trial system for Guantanamo detainees leaves some questioning whether a just verdict is possible
- Analysts predict no Ely coal-fired power plant (UPDATE)
- Dollywon't: puppies blamed
- The Small Lebowski
- Vegas lounge rocker Freddie Bell dies
- Reid: Senate to push foreclosure help
- Analyst predicts no Ely coal-fired power plant
- Kurt vs. Tony
- O.J. Simpson jail video to be aired
- Diver dies at submerged wreck site in Lake Mead
- Earnhardt Jr. favored to win Daytona 500
- Client Service Mindset - “The 22nd Thing”
- We're still the fattest ... please pass the fries
- Obama beats Clinton... at the Grammys
- Prescription consumers
- Dueling modernist shows bring art world together on the Strip
- Check cashing closer to homes
- Worn but hanging in there
- They played above the rim
- Let me turn your trash into energy, entrepreneur urges cities
- Dump may become solar plant site
- Prosecutor to fill Toy Gregory’s seat on municipal court
- How budgets cuts have bled students, faculty
- Clinton must be good for GOP to attack her
- Unsafe blood cited
- They’re trying to keep music live
- Jailed strip club owner to get closer to home
- Obama conducts himself with class
- So will that UnitedHealth-Sierra Health merger ...
- Watching the watchdog
- Stimulus rebate goes overseas, anyway
- Ron Kantowski wonders which corners must be cut in UNLV athletics
- Point finger at Congress, not Exxon Mobil
Sunday, Feb. 10
- Clinton replaces campaign manager
- Obama wins Maine Democratic caucuses
- Huckabee draws in the anyone-but-McCain vote
- A look at sports betting
- Stop mining giveaways
- Face of war has forever changed
- Brian Greenspun says Clinton put her money where her mouth is
- Surprise! Greens praise a coal plant
- Lost in the blizzard of results Super Tuesday ...
- Jon Ralston reads between the ‘pay to the order of’ lines to see which is really the dominant party in this state
- Cold cases go online, with respect for victims
- Stand up and show respect for heroes
- How Reid got stimulus bill through Congress
- With surgery, pounds melt — if the patients stick
- Jeff Simpson takes a look at the intense and pricey battle for casino licenses in some other states and across the ocean
- Allegiance pledged to nation, not to God
- In private, Dems agree: Damage done in caucus will ripple
- Fantasy football
- JAWS pursues fitness
- Why Vegas courts China
- Stimulus plan is a pittance next to Bush’s war
- Fighting for veterans
- Ram (not so) tough
Saturday, Feb. 9
- Mel Brooks shares "Producers" curtain call at Paris Las Vegas
- Creators of Credit Crisis Revel in Las Vegas
- Ensign, calling in from Iraq
- Welcome to the Whine Country
- Las Vegas opens Chinese New Year with feast reserved for royalty
- Shooting park draws opponents
- McCain’s new fight
- Conservation on the brink?
- The Elevator
- Romney delivers clear message too late
- Divisive force exits presidential race
- New programs, few students
- With complaints still coming in ...
- Cash on the barrel
- What’s so special about think tanks?
- For $625,000, a watch for the slot-addicted
- Kruger's quiet milestone
- Suit seeks to deliver blow across the Pacific
- They warmed to soccer, soccer players
Friday, Feb. 8
- The spread of the smoking ban
- Nevada: A state divided
- Police involved in shootout named
- Culinary pounds Tropicana
- Acting administrator of taxicab authority resigns
- Monte Carlo will re-open next Friday
- Darren Mack sentenced to minimum 36 years in prison for killing wife, shooting judge
- A Busch blast from the past
- CityCenter, budget buster
- "American Idol": the ride
- The state of Henderson: more growth
- North Las Vegas police looking for witnesses to crash
- Take home a piece of Oprah
- Creditors revel in Las Vegas
- Moulin Rouge gets a helping hand
- Cher-ing the stage with Bette and Elton
- Cher comes back to Vegas
- Aviation milestone
- CSN leadership left in lurch
- Steroids trickling down? Not on his watch
- Judge, then a justice? No way, four say
- Military contracts a mess
- They’re up for Grammys, performing in Vegas
- Vegas area median home price sinks below $250,000
- Look out Vegas: Costume queen of seven ages
- Owner of Tropicana is, in fact, being investigated
- Could the state be an anomaly in the GOP presidential race?
- Compassion turned into heartlessness
- Jon Ralston on an ethics query with an obvious answer
- Human rights abuse
- Jeff Haney checks out an online poker site for average Joes that’s poised to debut, with the owner planning to get rich quick
- Casino handed artistic legacy
- Beatlemania lives in Vegas
- Health care for poor on the ropes
- ‘Green’ building brings hotshot firm to Vegas
- Wake up and smell the crude, America
- They care about labor, value quality
Thursday, Feb. 7
- Republican video takes aim at Reid
- Porter seeks help for subprime borrowers
- Kurt Busch on pole for Bud Shootout
- No blocking dummies
- Local student to perform in Kansas City
- Just get my name right
- Fugitive shot by police is identified
- Heidi Fleiss arrested
- Rookies? What rookies?
- The real reason Romney's out?
- Romney suspends campaign for presidential bid
- Vegas man finalist in Sexiest Vegetarian contest
- Drops in stocks translate to drops in fortunes
- Look for Rebels to bounce back
- GOP sources: Romney will suspend campaign
- Las Vegas entertainers to be featured in Hispanic Museum
- Utah residents rally against Nevada coal-fired plant
- Road crew finds stranded couple
- We’re stuck with results of Bush years
- The Curious Case of Kevin Hart
- Forging an energy path
- The weight of his faith
- Turnover at helm, demographics lead some to ask: Are local NAACP’s best days gone?
- If the results of Super Tuesday ...
- Rebels coach pits reality against perception on recruiting trail
- As clock ticks away, merger foes find hope
- U.S. needs leader who can inspire us
- Troubling police problems
- Consider the alternatives to a floor under F’s
- Plan to siphon water for Vegas OK’d, with eye out for refuge
- We all need power, but in Mesquite, priority is clean air
- On the front line against terrorism in Vegas
- Bring on the Year of the Rat!
- Why school choice plan would help poor
- Budget priorities
Wednesday, Feb. 6
- Chance to win a perfect smile
- Man killed in shootout with police (UPDATED)
- UNLV falls out of first place with loss to Utah
- Victory is in the bag
- Showdown tonight over stimulus package (UPDATED)
- Meet you on the astral plane, Maharishi
- Heat trades Shaquille O'Neal to Suns
- Pet food company indicted (UPDATED)
- Closed park no closer to reopening
- No quick fix: UNLV football recruits high school players
- No tax rebates for illegal immigrants
- Burglary duo nabbed
- City councilman really angry -- just don't ask about what
- Cher to make Vegas a regular gig
- Former Miss Nevada arrested in traffic stop
- New police chief for Clark County School District
- Council picks city lawyer for judicial post
- Betting on the beer wars
- Examiners conclude Ledger's death as accidental overdose
- Woman serves time for picketing a jewelry store
- Democrats pushing for expanded stimulus plan
- Clinton, Obama 'duel to a draw'
- 18-year-old pockets $1.4 million in poker winnings
- It’s anything but over
- The Readers Sometimes E-mail
- Series again for CSN his goal
- At county, two bosses looking out for workers
- You can’t be sure who you may find in judges’ elevator at the courthouse
- Universal care is impossible dream
- Obama’s diplomatic skills questionable
- Break for failing students really a disservice
- Let’s have mail-in ballots, not caucuses
- NLV gets lots of help with library name
- So far, all drug tests negative
- FDA budget fails
- Paula Poundstone
- Threat level rising
- Reid: Renewables shorted by Bush budget
- Culinary, Tropicana are talking — but slowly, not about the big issues
- You know their chairs, now see their short films
- Ron Kantowski salutes the retiring General, Bob Knight
- The teachers might topple gaming’s gods
- Homeless veterans are poorly served
- Love says never having to say “coal” anymore.
Tuesday, Feb. 5
- Suns could swap two UNLV players for Shaq
- Washington Post highlights "Super Tuesday" with special election coverage
- Transgender woman found guilty of murder
- Casinos lost $2.6 mil on Super Bowl betting but somehow the industry will recover
- An honest Yucca answer, come Jan. 20
- The New York Times supersizes its "Super Tuesday" coverage
- Patients can now book appointments, see test results and more, online
- Knight's game
- Here's a Democrat who can save the state money
- Obama wins Democratic primary in Georgia
- The governor says "grow a business" in Nevada
- Do Vegas for an incomparable 'I do' on Valentine's Day
- Toyota on the road to success
- Justice for Jessica?
- 'Mafia cop' pleads guilty to tax charge
- McCain issued statement about Romney's remark on Dole
- Teachers re-file gaming tax initiative
- Huckabee gets first Super Tuesday win
- Las Vegas tops foreclosure list
- Super delegates
- Silver State Helicopter files bankruptcy, students left in debt
- All the Grammys need is "Love"
- Reid, McConnell still at it today
- The Sands: What slowdown?
- Counting the Super Tuesday delegates
- Las Vegas Sands sees 4Q drop
- Zero the new 50?
- Mayors out to check Gibbons’ math, priorities
- State of the Union speech refreshing
- Gentlemen, please: This is the Senate
- Welcome to the bench, here are a bunch of problems
- So close to the big time, yet so far
- From Vegas, a literary hero emerges
- Legacy of debt
- Was Republican Party switch a ruse?
- Las Vegas land sharks
- Blame Congress, not the president
- Tenser and tenser as Trop and workers negotiate
- In economic fix, Ensign likely to get his tax shutout
- Glad to hear UNLV doing well
- An unglamorous photo shoot
- Students need to learn the value of work
- Tax cuts are just windfalls for wealthy
- Interesting people at funerals...
- Councilman stands to make friends by swaying vote
Monday, Feb. 4
- Trump International Hotel & Tower Las Vegas Readies for March 31 Opening
- Hearing opens on plan to pump rural Nevada water to Las Vegas
- Neighbors say group home poses problems
- Oh yeah, and it's Fashion Week, too
- Ceremony to honor CC Fire Department
- Another black mark for coal
- Airola powers down helicopter company
- Put up your Duke
- Closures set on Decatur at 215 for Thursday night, Friday morning
- Among the missing:
- National pundit surveys CD3
- Credit where credit is due
- One more thought on the Nevada caucuses
- Diamond rocks
- Fugitive appeared in court via video conference today
- Motorcyclist killed in Henderson crash
- Dale Jr. billboard controversy
- Bush knocking his head against the Yucca wall?
- Brothel documentary shows Las Vegas a threat
- A bad proposal
- Dangerous driving found in parking lots, too
- Casinos and more casinos coming
- A floor for failing grades
- He shouldn’t have peeked
- Experimentation, but with collaboration
- Liberal think tank? Think again
- ‘Superdog’ makes splash with ‘celebrities’
- Sister dead and tarnished, brother pushes for truth
- Nevada television station owners and managers . . .
- Bam! He makes people happier
- A strong start, then defeated, not down
- Tax money buys tickets to special events, too
- Leaders shouldn’t tell us how to vote
- A poor legacy
- Corridors should be near green energy
- Local group backs use of electric cars
- Military suicides alarming
Sunday, Feb. 3
- Playing It Safe in Las Vegas
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Betting not so big for Big Game?
- A foolish scheme
- Retail renaissance
- Jon Ralston lists 10 compelling questions that should make Nevada’s 2008 political season worth watching
- Road needs coming home to roost
- Colbert gets all the glory while our politicians toil away
- Nevada caucuses left their mark on hopefuls
- A man on a mission, pressed for time
- Jeff Simpson answers slams in a full-page ad taken out by the owner of the Tropicana
- Tow predators
- Still a bad deal
- Nevada’s importance is tied to caucus
- Thirty-nine years ago Gov. Paul Laxalt vetoed a bill ...
- Too much emphasis on standardized tests
- The law is the law
- Response to economic crisis is no solution
- Retired teachers’ insurance in state high court’s hands
- Official: Foam’s OK, despite fire
- Jack Sheehan implores rat-race-weary Las Vegans to jump in their cars and make the short trip to scenic Mount Charleston, now in prime season
- Ensign as close to Bush as he ever was
- Two-story schools would save money
Saturday, Feb. 2
- UNLV defeats New Mexico
- Navy SEAL killed in training exercise from Las Vegas
- Carey's Vegas shame
- Readiness reality check
- Ready for spring?
- The Elevator
- Boggs judge had own campaign cash issue
- Military donations scam is an outrage
- One minute you have a big screen; the next, you have a big box of glass
- Disrespect for Clintons is puzzling
- Paul certainly is the best candidate
- UFC 81, ‘Breaking Point’
- By any other name
- The war in cyberspace
- Gov. Jim Gibbons isn’t really against ...
- Third try: Tech guru needed for overhaul
- Hey, Las Vegas, here’s a taste of carnaval
- Primary system is preferable to caucus
Friday, Feb. 1
- Nevada giant remembered for consensus building
- The Friday afternoon Monte Carlo update
- Simpson seeks dismissal of some charges
- New Crowne Plaza hotel to be built in Las Vegas
- And the winner is... Ron Paul?
- Culinary leaders to members: Time to get back to business
- Perry's 1986 TD spawned Super Bowl betting frenzy in Vegas
- Spamalot offers a "don't call it Super" deal
- MoveOn Endorses Obama
- Client Service Mindset - “The 22nd Thing”
- Credit where due...
- Miss USA Pageant Heading to Vegas
- Vegas 'the second best place to be' for Super Bowl
- Las Vegas Thunder
- Americans at risk
- Jeff Haney points out the cheap line on the Pats to win
- Publicly held, Boyd out to stay that way
- Oh goody, 29 days of February
- Simply awed by the ascendant power of Adelson
- The big and the small of it: Getting your visual bearings
- Going where classical music lovers fear to tread
- Gov. Jim Gibbons decided to meet the president
- Trail from UMC leads to suspect goods
- Effort to change parties worth it
- Trop dragging down gaming, Culinary says
- Lawmaker backs off suing Gibbons, goes for ‘end run’
- Answer the question
- Same attitude, whole new team
- On tax rebates, Ensign a hero or a heel
- Why won’t U.S. pursue desalination?
- Reasons to smile
- One-dimensional Rudy wasn’t all that bad
- Growth, newcomers add to driving woes
- Citations without penalties
- Chamber: See no downturn, hear no downturn
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