Jack Sheehan on the rise of glass ceiling-shatterer Cindy Kiser Murphey, head of New York-New York

May 13, 2008 (2 a.m.)

By Jack Sheehan

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

May 2, 2008 (2 a.m.)

By Joe Schoenmann , Jack Sheehan

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

Apr 27, 2008 (2 a.m.)

By Jack Sheehan

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

Apr 13, 2008 (2 a.m.)

By Jack Sheehan

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

Mar 31, 2008 (2 a.m.)

By Jack Sheehan

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

Mar 17, 2008 (2 a.m.)

By Jack Sheehan

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

Feb 17, 2008 (2 a.m.)

By Jack Sheehan

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

Feb 3, 2008 (2 a.m.)

By Jack Sheehan

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

Jan 22, 2008 (2 a.m.)

By Jack Sheehan

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

Dec 23, 2007 (6:54 a.m.)

By Jack Sheehan

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.