- Jack Sheehan on the rise of glass ceiling-shatterer Cindy Kiser Murphey, head of New York-New York
- Tuesday, May 13, 2008
- It’s tempting to report that a huge twister swept through Kansas one day, and lifted young Cindy Kiser from her bed and onto the Yellow Brick Road leading to the presidency of New York-New York. But that's too easy.
- Our concentration of resorts is cited as economic model
- Friday, May 2, 2008
- Las Vegas’ success in becoming a nexus of entertainment and gambling is a model that American cities would do well to emulate in other businesses, a new Brookings Institution report concludes.
- ‘Idol’ an oasis of clean amid a cesspool on TV
- Sunday, April 27, 2008
- This is not an easy admission to make, but I’ll do it anyway. The one can’t-miss, required-viewing television show in the Sheehan household every week is “American Idol.”
- Why Las Vegans can be a tad defensive about how others see their city
- Sunday, April 13, 2008
- We Las Vegans need to keep a thick skin, and not just because the desert sun will bake us harder than an armadillo shell if we get too much exposure to it.
- 1968: So much hope, so much tragedy
- Monday, March 31, 2008
- Just as one break in the snow can cause an avalanche, so one twisted mind can alter the course of a generation.
- After 21 years on hold, she’s ready for life
- Monday, March 17, 2008
- I expected to meet a hardened woman, her face a steely mask of contempt and resignation for a life that has dealt her one cruel blow after another. But somehow, some way, Sandy Shaw has come through her nightmares unscathed on the surface.
- Old Vegas drew dreamers, toughs
- Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008
- The stereotypical image of Las Vegas in the 1960s and ’70s was that of a catchall community of second-chancers, bail-jumpers, pipe-dreamers, entrepreneurs looking for open spaces, divorcees looking for a quick nip and tuck, saints and sinners, and everything in between.
- 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
- Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008
- The scenic splendor on the northwest horizon of our city always makes the first paragraph when patrons of Southern Nevada argue that Las Vegas is far more than just a flat slab of caliche in the middle of nowhereville.
- Jack Sheehan names names as the FBI tries to solve the mystery of D.B. Cooper
- Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008
- Special Agent Larry Carr in Seattle is leading the investigation of the legendary and oft-romanticized D.B. Cooper skyjacking of a Northwest Airlines 727 jet in November 1971 in hope of solving one of the most intriguing mysteries of the past century.
- Jack Sheehan talks to two women who left the sex trade and now target it with Christianity
- Sunday, Dec. 23, 2007
- These two women have come full circle in their lives through troubled youths, abuse, alcohol and drug issues, and even the dark alley of top-dollar prostitution, to a place where today both live on modest incomes and have devoted their lives to telling people that Jesus loves them.
Jack Sheehan
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