Story archive for July 2007
Tuesday, July 31
- Artificial turf: Real deal for golf?
- Grandson of Picasso spreads the art in Las Vegas
- LOOKING IN ON: ENTERTAINMENT
- Born to keep 'em laughing
- FLASHPOINT for Jul 31, 2007
- Editorial: A disabled agency
- Editorial: Root out all corruption
- Letter: Cheney pulls strings at the White House
- Letter: Too little, too late for Bush administration
- Letter: Vick's actions are unconscionable
- Letter: Saudi Arabia has kept its enemy close
- Letter: What good are laws unenforced?
- Editorial: Where there's smoke
- LOOKING IN ON: SUBURBS
- RV dwellers may face life on road
- Anti-terrorism fusion center comes together
- A trucker's tantrum proves costly
- CORRECTION
Monday, July 30
- Purpose
- Ron Kantowski points out that the guy whose alleged actions could do the most harm in memory to the NBA just happens to be white
- Athletics at UNLV a matter of degree
- THE OPENING LINE
- Drugstore lunch counter struggles for survival
- Editorial: Personally making a difference
- Editorial: Coal plant burnout
- Letter: Teach children how to fulfill their potential
- Letter: Two years in public office is enough
- Letter: U.S. involved in other countries' disputes
- Editorial: Safer roads, safer traffic
- Research sprouts from small seeds
- Smoking ban tests resourcefulness
- Consensus through cuts
- Feds face obstacles in corruption probe
Sunday, July 29
- Guest columnist Samantha Galing Gaddy: Health care reform is top issue in America this election cycle
- Guest columnist Warren B Hardy II: Union tactic harms honest employers
- Union tactic harms honest employers
- Health care reform is top issue in America this election cycle
- Editorial: Move quickly on report
- Editorial: Forced retirement
- Editorial: A lack of care
- Letter: Positive attitude not enough to save troops
- Letter: Americans don't want to give up SUVs
- Letter: Make them pay for using the road
- Letter: Pat Tillman, family deserved better
- Letter: Missouri system for picking judges works
- Jeff Simpson on why bad news involving gambling is bad news for Las Vegas, despite all the defenses of legalized sports betting
- LOOKING IN ON: CITY HALL
- Kids health bill rouses fear of 'Hillary-care'
- LOOKING IN ON: WASHINGTON
- LOOKING IN ON: EDUCATION
- Cats' naps help cause
- WHERE NOW?
- Opponents of health care takeover come out swinging in Round 2
- Brian Greenspun signs off for August with this thought: Going green will cost some well-spent green
- Strong negatives, electability doubts dog front-runner
Saturday, July 28
- There's a new king of checkers, crowned in downtown Vegas
- Editorial: Snakes in a tower?
- Editorial: Reject FBI's request
- Letter: Point of boxing, dogfights is the violence
- Letter: Bush, Cheney are doing jobs right
- Letter: Unions interfere with our lives, businesses
- Editorial: Teaching to the test
- New bank aimed at giving back
- Fed-up Culinary talks tough, talks strike
- Democrats to unions: Caucuses help you, so help pay for them
Friday, July 27
- Editorial: This fight traces to Bush
- Letter: Hold public servants to a higher standard
- Letter: True patriots will fight Bush tyranny
- Editorial: Say it ain't so
- Letter: Any ideas on how to stop madness in Iraq?
- Editorial: Benching a judge
- For principals, it's often 5 strikes and you're out
- Schools' test scores may puzzle parents
- Where to walk in U.S.? Henderson
- Don't expect X-rated ads for X-rated activity
- New law: Let them out of prison
- ARTS NOTES
- Well done, old grill
- Ron Kantowski argues that the betting scandal is yet another reason the NBA needs Las Vegas
- LOOKING IN ON: BOXING
- Local group upbeat after mingling with pro soccer league's elite
Thursday, July 26
- Jeff Haney on why Nevada's betting industry and the big-time leagues are natural allies in maintaining the integrity of sports
- LOOKING IN ON: MOTOR SPORTS
- Ecstatically, Tom Jones tribute artist breaks ground
- Topless isn't this show's bottom line
- Editorial: Technical foul
- Editorial: More of the same
- Letter: Punish illegal fireworks traffickers, users
- Letter: How many abuses at King George's hand?
- Letter: Lives will be lost for the sake of big oil
- Editorial: No cooperation
- For schools, what does progress mean? Nevada has one idea, the feds another
- Halverson suspension seen as what works
- CORRECTION
- Out to hurt builder, union takes aim at tenant instead
Wednesday, July 25
- Ron Kantowski on how a team of wholesome Nebraskans exemplifies what high school sport is supposed to be
- Q+A: Troy Gentry
- Editorial: He just doesn't get it
- Editorial: YouTube electors
- Letter: U.S. repeating mistakes of Britain in Iraq
- Letter: Stop the negativity surrounding war
- Letter: New Frontier great place for memories
- Letter: Teachers left out of schools' 'jackpot'
- Editorial: Go after fireworks violators
- Teachers grab extra incentive to retire
- Rare butterfly struggles, flutters higher
- Unscathed McDonald now faces feds on taxes
- GOP's attack on Democrats aims straight at Harry Reid
Tuesday, July 24
- Las Vegan out to be shoo-in as world champ
- TAKE FIVE: THE NEW FRONTIER SIGN
- Q+A: Rodney Carrington
- Editorial: Pipeline fever hits home
- Editorial: Is city acting legally?
- Letter: Lawmakers are done, but not the lobbyists
- Letter: Who are candidates representing now?
- Letter: No excuse for mistreating dogs
- Editorial: Nuclear wasted
- Mix-ups put man in jail, leave him out in the cold
- Eviction looms, clock ticks, but 800 renters find an ally
- Heller's bill to the front, to keep our water flowing
- CORRECTION
Monday, July 23
- Energizing Your Organization
- Inspired by heroes, Hopkins insists he can fight four more years
- SCORE president: Moving race a terrible idea
- THE OPENING LINE
- TAKE FIVE: AL ROKER
- FLASHPOINT for Jul 23, 2007
- Editorial: Easing student debt
- Editorial: A classified mess
- Letter: American citizens can't trust White House
- Letter: Let's bring our troops home to protect U.S.
- Letter: Dim view of Congress due to GOP scandals?
- Editorial: A matter of spin
- LOOKING IN ON: CARSON CITY
- Schools with good ideas share $56 million jackpot
- Turnberry residents allege turnabout by developer who's ruining their views
- LOCKED DOWN
Sunday, July 22
- FLASHPOINT for Jul 22, 2007
- Jon Ralston on why Gibbons' decisions on an appointment to the nuclear project panel and a dismissal from the Homeland Security Commission have him scratching his head
- Editorial: Hire more food inspectors
- Editorial: Seeing beyond the numbers
- Letter: Like him or not, Reid reflects will of people
- Letter: Iraq war has only strengthened al-Qaida
- Letter: Ads about Democrats show a lot of nerve
- Letter: Government has been unmitigated disaster
- Letter: Iraq is out of our president's control
- Editorial: Wasting taxpayers' money
- Carpenter to enjoy big paycheck in Houston
- Culinary turns to others as MGM Mirage talks stall
- THE WEEK IN REVIEW: WASHINGTON D.C.
- LOOKING IN ON: CITY HALL
- Slot players might get new crack at an old video game
- Jack Sheehan recalls pulling off a trade as a kid for a coveted Mickey Mantle rookie card but regrets that he couldn't pass it on or trade it in
- Foreclosures eat away at upscale enclave
- Brian Greenspun laments the recent migration of some of our best and brightest from the valley that nurtured them
- Again in June, foreclosures hit Nevada harder than any other state
- The Luxor's New Threads
- LIVING LAS VEGAS
Saturday, July 21
- TAKE FIVE: BERNARD HOPKINS VS. WINKY WRIGHT
- FIVE QUESTIONS: TEAM USA
- FLASHPOINT for Jul 21, 2007
- Editorial: A cruel and unusual act
- Editorial: What's a little waste?
- Letter: Americans led astray by deceitful rhetoric
- Letter: Parents should take responsibility for kids
- Letter: Counting the days till the next president
- Editorial: Who's behind that badge?
- Clinton ups the ante on Yucca Mountain
- Old friend of Heller gets surprise calls from war foes
- CSN broke rule for firms linked to Gilbert
- Get rid of pest? Not if it turns tap water pink
- Imprisoned jaywalker challenges drive to clean up downtown
Friday, July 20
- Ron Kantowski on Mexican futbol at Sam Boyd being more fun than Wyoming-UNLV football
- Come early for your seat, but expect a late start
- Jeff Haney tells football bettors which group of casinos is offering the area's best reduced-vigorish promotion
- It's food, it's art, it's an experience
- Artists protecting their turf can say it with radiators
- FLASHPOINT for Jul 20, 2007
- Jon Ralston on two who know a different Kenny
- Editorial: A bewitching book
- Editorial: Guardians of secrecy
- Letter: Government administrators overpaid
- Letter: Unprovoked war's wake of destruction
- Letter: Bush, Cheney have been a disaster
- Editorial: Sleeping with the enemy
- Gibbons drops airport from safety panel
- In politics, Nevadans give and give
- Soccer teams from Mexico bring a sense of home, new and old
- Her name is Ku'uleialohaoka'alakalama Young. Remember it.
Thursday, July 19
- Jeff Haney on how the new face of championship poker came from unlikely origins, gained fame lightning fast and plans to give away part of his winnings
- LOOKING IN ON: MOTOR SPORTS
- Bill Fanning, 1926-2007
- Q+A: Alexis Gershwin
- FLASHPOINT for Jul 19, 2007
- Editorial: Resignation long overdue
- Editorial: Al-Qaida feeding off Iraq
- Letter: Democrats have guts to stand up to bullies
- Letter: Use eminent domain to fix up apartments
- Letter: Let the Iraqis solve their own problems
- Letter: President's use of Almighty is selective
- Letter: Bush respects, fears no one except Cheney
- Editorial: Sentence says: Crime pays
- Gibbons seen undermining a nuke-free Yucca
- Reid's obligation
- Freed overseas, thanks to help from Nevada
- Caesars' aim: Keep towering over Strip
- Presidential race adds fuel to Culinary's fire
Wednesday, July 18
- Final table finishers at the main event of the World Series of Poker
- Final table finishers at the World Series of Poker's main event
- THE ELEVATOR
- TAKE FIVE: SCORE LAS VEGAS TERRIBLE'S CUP III
- Ron Kantowski offers some alternatives to the tradition of Pamplona
- FLASHPOINT for Jul 18, 2007
- Jon Ralston explains why lobbyists manage to get their way over and over and over again with state government
- Editorial: Sins of the fathers
- Editorial: Let facts be heard
- Letter: Bush is wrong about what's needed in Iraq
- Letter: Casinos don't need room-tax subsidies
- Letter: R-J has twisted view of reality, economy
- Letter: A place for many points of view
- Letter: President has done a lot of damage
- Editorial: Renters sent packing
- It's par for the course in Vegas: Links may give way to houses
- $9.5 billion arena complex goes here - that's the plan
- Won't you come back, CSN asks unions
- LOOKING IN ON: EDUCATION
- LOOKING IN ON: SUBURBS
- Nevada gets more than 15 minutes
Tuesday, July 17
- World Series of Poker
- Motor sports fans get the drift
- Subtly, artist asks, is this what we want?
- Jazz finds a place to call home
- FLASHPOINT for Jul 17, 2007
- Editorial: Flowers or fire trucks?
- Editorial: Opportunity for peace
- Letter: Let history be our guide out of Iraq
- Letter: Respect people's will: Leave Iraq
- Letter: Leadership, Bush don't go together
- Letter: Democrats need to get tough on terror
- Editorial: Lack of intelligence
- Investigation doesn't stop pay raise at CSN
- Online gaming in the shadows
- No sleep for you, Reid tells senators debating war
- 800 renters ordered out
- Witnesses testify in secret, for and against judge
- County: Whose side are lobbyists on?
- Rogers throws his weight behind Clinton
- Mystery pageant contestant's talent scores low marks
Monday, July 16
- Leadership, Part II
- Day off in the main event of the World Series of Poker
- Jeff Haney finds bargains hidden in the Bonds home run props
- Former UNLV star finds new life for Suns in NBA Summer League
- THE OPENING LINE
- 'Superstars' an easy sell for value
- Consistent change keeps Second City fresh, funny
- FLASHPOINT for Jul 16, 2007
- Editorial: Unlock cellular service
- Editorial: One barrel at a time
- Letter: Republican rattlesnakes committing suicide
- Letter: Bush regime similar to former USSR
- Letter: If GOP is moral, what's immoral?
- Letter: Leaving Iraq now could be disastrous
- Editorial: The trauma of war
- Diversity takes hit for higher academic standards
- Teacher void starting to fill
- County wants bigger cut of room tax pie
- LOOKING IN ON: TOURISM
- Reforms streamline competency court, save money
Sunday, July 15
- So much land, but so few buyers
- Henderson is valley's first stop for million-dollar homes; NLV last
- FLASHPOINT for Jul 15, 2007
- Jon Ralston puts into perspective former County Commissioner Erin Kenny's fall from grace
- Editorial: Regulating safety
- Editorial: Expand hours, not space
- Letter: 'Chicken hawks' are not helping our troops
- Letter: Lowering standards doesn't help anyone
- Letter: Outlaws have nothing on today's crooks
- Letter: U.S. strengthened by Bush's leadership
- Editorial: Hope for Iraqi family
- A MOMENT CAPTURED
- Jeff Simpson on why the Las Vegas community is honor-bound not to do business with Rhodes Homes as long as Erin Kenny is on the payroll
- LOOKING IN ON: SUBURBS
- Strip club back in convict's control
- THE WEEK IN REVIEW: WASHINGTON D.C.
- CONVENTION CRASHING: ICAST
- Brian Greenspun on how Sherm is ill-equipped to take on the likes of Harry
- HE HAS CROWD APPEAL
- Making money, raising eyebrows
Saturday, July 14
- Day 8 of the main event of the World Series of Poker
- LOOKING IN ON: BOXING
- LOOKING IN ON: GOLF
- Gomez faces world's best in Venezuela
- FLASHPOINT for Jul 14, 2007
- Editorial: Be careful out there
- Editorial: Cutting school funds
- Letter: Situation in Iraq was predictable, unenviable
- Letter: Post-apocalyptic world and Yucca
- Letter: So much for us being safe from terrorists
- Editorial: Nixon's dark legacy
- No time for luxury
- Obama's in the house
- Win big or small, casinos ask more questions
- PARTY ENDS IN FIGHT, BUT IT'S NOT SAME OLD STORY
- Scramble to be American
Friday, July 13
- Jeff Haney offers evidence that early lines on football games Las Vegas sports books will offer this summer aren't likely to hold up in the fall
- Struggling through summer
- Exhibit will test your taste in art
- LOOKING IN ON: ENTERTAINMENT
- FLASHPOINT for Jul 13, 2007
- Jon Ralston says although Hillary Clinton is the front-runner, don't think that Barack Obama doesn't have a shot at winning here
- Editorial: What twilight years?
- Editorial: Bush's 'optimism' misplaced
- Letter: On Iraq, put interest of America first
- Letter: Ensign served voters on immigration bill
- Letter: C-SPAN shows where real boondoggle is
- Editorial: A word smackdown
- A PRAYER AND PROTEST
- Former Nevada Test Site workers counting on Reid's legislation to pull them through
- Suits woo Goodman and council with plans for arena
- Party for 150? My house? Friday? Come on over, Obama
- Iraqi family can stay, but with strings
- Suspended or not: Judge may hear soon
Thursday, July 12
- Day 7 of the main event of the World Series of Poker
- Highlights of Nevada casino revenue report
- Chevrolets roar out of Turn 2
- TAKE FIVE: EARTH FROM SPACE
- FLASHPOINT for Jul 12, 2007
- Editorial: Will wonders never cease?
- Editorial: Politics and public health
- Letter: Why the teacher shortage? Compare the pay
- Letter: Supreme Court is eroding our rights
- Letter: Recognize real heroes - while they're alive
- Editorial: A lesson in geography
- Poverty may not be winning issue, but Edwards is taking it on tour
- Psychic leaves mayor laughing, then hanging
- Porter sticks on Iraq war, knowing the costs
- 7/7/07 did many weddings no favors
- Day 6 at the main event of the World Series of Poker
Wednesday, July 11
- Day 6 at the main event of the World Series of Poker
- Jeff Haney explains the 27 percent drop-off from last year in entries to the main event of the World Series of Poker when a record field had been expected.
- FLASHPOINT for Jul 11, 2007
- Jon Ralston on Gov. Jim Gibbons' resurgence since legislators went home
- Editorial: Spin won't fool the public
- Editorial: Caring for children
- Letter: Leave Iraq and spend money on other things
- Letter: Let's worry about the real vice in D.C.
- Letter: Political parties are missing point in war
- Editorial: Ensign's real motives
- Republicans feel the pull, mimic liberals
- JAMES SHIPP: 1936-2007
- LOOKING IN ON: HIGHER EDUCATION
- English learners up in Nevada, but feds don't see it that way
- Gibbons accuser turns to Clinton's former lawyer
- Binion cases long on drama but out of time
Tuesday, July 10
- SIX PRINCIPALS: ARENA PANELISTS
- Ron Kantowski looks at the possibility of two LV arenas and wonders who will occupy them
- Entranced by a dance
- FLASHPOINT for Jul 10, 2007
- Editorial: Same thing, different package
- Letter: Bush is the worst president we've ever had
- Letter: Higher tax burden hurts working people
- Letter: Teacher shortage calls for innovation
- Editorial: A law unto themselves?
- Liquorless strip club runs dry
- LOOKING IN ON: EDUCATION
- Work at night, on weekends to save taxpayers money? Judges balk
- New good will at New Frontier
- As day's luck bailed out, they faced making bail
Monday, July 9
- Leadership
- Jeff Haney finds some alternatives to established stars for those wishing to bet on the NFL's league leaders
- TAKE FIVE: TOM CANDIOTTI
- THE OPENING LINE
- The hottest jokes in town
- Black is back, and angry as ever
- Editorial: GOP shifting on Iraq
- Editorial: Extra care for veterans
- Letter: Timing of troop surge is dangerous
- Letter: The more we're taxed, the more is wasted
- Letter: U.S. has become too egotistical for peace
- Editorial: Looking for a solution
- Midnight on the softball field of good and evil
- LOOKING IN ON: SUBURBS
- Red flags raised over trip to Spain
- Going the extra miles for teachers
- D. is not always for 'diplomatic' at Culinary
- Vegas seniors refuse to grow old
- Day 3 of the main event of the World Series of Poker
Sunday, July 8
- Day 2 of the main event of the World Series of Poker
- LUCKY IN LOVE
- Editorial: A question of fairness
- Editorial: Doing the right thing
- Letter: U.S. presence in Iraq has made things worse
- Letter: What will it take to impeach this man?
- Letter: Bashing president is bad habit for liberals
- Letter: Bush has no respect for jury's decision
- Editorial: Homeless youths get break
- More and more law firms branch out into marketing
- WEEK IN REVIEW: D.C.
- Q+A: SYLVIA LAZOS
- LOOKING IN ON: CLARK COUNTY
- Jack Sheehan on how this getting words down on paper gig isn't really all that bad, once you get past the first line
- Jeff Simpson on why, despite all the criticism, Wynn stands behind his tip-sharing plan
- Interstate 15 project to test idea: Why wait for design to build?
- From scratch, he built UNLV law school and its reputation
- Accused lawyers rarely investigated
- Deportation or not - Iraqi family awaits word this week
Saturday, July 7
- TAKE FIVE: 'FIREWORKS IN THE CAGE' MIXED MARTIAL ARTS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL FIGHTING ORGANIZATION
- Editorial: Heart of the matter
- Editorial: World travelers shun U.S.
- Letter: Using science to save lives a moral obligation
- Letter: Offering a lesson in good salesmanship
- Letter: Corporations' taxes skew reported data
- Letter: Life at conception is hardly arbitrary
- Editorial: Luck lines up today
- Compromise tweaks terror center plans
- Q+A: Bob Boughner
- For a 7/7/07 anniversary, love waits in line but doesn't wilt
- Ensign's tactics on immigration get dissected
- Whispers at poker table: The blind guy's winning
- Opening day of the main event of the World Series of Poker
Friday, July 6
- Jeff Haney on why the 'Huntington Beach Bad Boy' is getting star billing on Saturday's big UFC card
- WIMBLEDON SPECIAL REPORT
- LOOKING IN ON: SOCCER
- From UNLV alums - art for everyman, wearable and whimsical
- Q+A: Steve Harwell
- LOOKING IN ON: ENTERTAINMENT
- Editorial: Impatience with immigration
- Editorial: Power struggle brewing
- Letter: Brooks' column just a conservative rant
- Letter: America's last wars were profit-driven
- Letter: U.S. not a role model for the Middle East
- Editorial: It's a desert out there
- Bailiffs get new image, prospects for pay hike
- How hot is it? Unprintably hot
- Vegas PBS at the ready in case of disaster or terror attack
- LOOKING IN ON: HIGHER EDUCATION
- Beer can tip the balance in softball
- CORRECTIONS
Thursday, July 5
- LOOKING IN ON: MOTORSPORTS
- Ron Kantowski has questions about the Vegas Summer League
- Q+A: LEWIS BLACK
- Editorial: Wrong man for the times
- Editorial: Are Nevadans healthy?
- Letter: CSN can't lose Carpenter soon enough
- Letter: Stem cell research should be a priority
- Letter: GOP sure knows how to make us safe
- Letter: Health care system needs competition
- Editorial: Intelligence and assumption
- LOOKING IN ON: EDUCATION
- CONVENTION CRASHING
- Next stop: Buses that let riders log on
- Landlord can't cash in - for now
Wednesday, July 4
- Jeff Haney wonders when viewers will cry 'Fold!' on plethora of poker tournaments on television
- Editorial: Freedom to wait, and wait
- Editorial: What's in a label?
- Letter: Pessimism won't help us reach goal in Iraq
- Letter: Commutation keeps truth locked up
- Letter: Bush picks bad time to come to Libby's aid
- Editorial: Self-evident truths
- If you can stand the heat, well then, stay in Las Vegas
- Boulder City spends away, beckons visitors to play
- Poker players stay in, reach out
- Lucky sevens line up
- CORRECTION
Tuesday, July 3
- Pursuing immortality
- TAKE FIVE: 'STAR SPANGLED SPECTACULAR'
- Looking back on 90 years
- Commentary: Can anyone reach Bush in these tough times?
- Commentary: One plausible option to Iraq's self-destructive civil war
- Commentary: Oregon senator adds compassion to conservatism
- Commentary: Campaign finance law is an affront to First Amendment
- Commentary: Reason versus recklessness
- Editorial: Remember the real story
- HEARD ELSEWHERE
- Letter: Alternate fuel only viable if properly pursued
- Letter: Complacency is the ally of amnesty
- Letter: Border fence can be built with no taxes
- Editorial: Good riddance to lame duck
- Build it, so teachers will come
- Author, columnist advises:If in doubt, ask a Mexican
- Details emerge as CSN asks for money
- Short, contentious stay for homeland security adviser
Monday, July 2
- Jeff Haney explains why adjustments made to futures lines after the NBA Draft had nothing to do with any of the players selected
- Ron Kantowski relives one of the most memorable plays in the history of college football with the men who were there in Waco, Texas, to see it live
- THE OPENING LINE
- They're bringing sexy back
- TAKE FIVE: KRISTI HOLDEN
- Editorial: Climate-change canary
- Editorial: Speak, but be succinct
- Letter: There is only one race - the human race
- Letter: Corporate America feeds off illegals' work
- Letter: On health care, ask, 'What would Jesus do?'
- Editorial: Highway safety
- LOOKING IN ON: CITY HALL
- AFL-CIO sides against teachers union
- Teamsters vs. teachers union
- When the match (maker) flames out
- LOOKING IN ON: HIGHER EDUCATION
Sunday, July 1
- LOOKING IN ON: CLARK COUNTY
- WEEK IN REVIEW: WASHINGTON, D.C.
- Keeping 'em in stitches for 7/7/07
- Will someone please pick up?
- Letter: A decision best left to the individual
- Editorial: Global growth crisis
- Editorial: No balance in this power
- Letter: Health care coverage in need of transparency
- Letter: Bush must recognize mess he's gotten us in
- Letter: Enforcing laws in place is a good start
- Letter: Higher gas tax tough to take, but best option
- Editorial: Cooler heads must prevail
- Jeff Simpson on why Wynn's tip-sharing plan is both the fair and the right thing to do
- Lobbyists paid by Clark County sometimes work against it
- Nevadans live hard, risk lives
- Brian Greenspun on how the R-J shortchanges the very people it should be serving
- KISSED OFF BY CSN