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Archive for August, 2005
Monday, August 29, 2005 Quotable By Steve Sebelius “You are giving hope and encouragement to the enemies of America.” — Howard Kaloogian, a former California assemblyman who co-organized a pro-Bush rally against Cindy Sheehan.
Kaloogian, by contrast, discourages the enemies of America by showing them that fascism isn’t dead. Oh, wait…
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Monday, August 29, 2005 Light rail cart before horse? By Steve Sebelius So the Regional Transportation Commission, which has fallen hopelessly in love with the idea of a “regional fixed guideway” that’s proposed to run from the Nevada State College in Henderson to a planned UNLV campus in North Las Vegas, is fielding $300,000 in ads for the concept. We say “concept” because a citizen’s task force [...]
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Monday, August 29, 2005 Catching up… By Steve Sebelius Sorry, blog fans, but we at Various Things & Stuff got caught up in endless meeting hell on Friday and were unable to post our thoughts. We thought we could sense a palatable disappointment in the Las Vegas community as a result, a disappointment that could only be drowned in sangria. (That’s how we drowned [...]
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Monday, August 29, 2005 Sitcoms no longer funny By Len Butcher
Is it me or is prime time television getting worse, if that’s possible? I don’t know about you, but I like to unwind in the evening watching a funny sitcom — note the use of the word “funnyâ€. This, unfortunately, seems difficult to do these days. Now I know that TV execs look for programs [...]
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Monday, August 29, 2005 News Report: New Orleans Hotels Deal with Hurricane Katrina By Dave Berns “After hoteliers met with public safety officials this spring about the responsibilities they would face by letting people stay during an emergency, some decided for the first time that they would take on only guests who were stranded, reports the New Orleans Times-Picayune.”
” Although the 1,110-room Sheraton New Orleans Hotel shut down [...]
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Monday, August 29, 2005 News Report: Hurricane Katrina Possibly Floods Biloxi’s Beau Rivage By Dave Berns Posted on Mon, Aug. 29, 2005
Katrina’s fury hits the Gulf shore
From Staff and Wire reports
From an online posting by Biloxi Sun Herald city editor Kate Magandy, in Long Beach at 10:a.am CDT:
“As Hurricane Katrina continued to pound South Mississippi Monday morning there were unconfirmed reports that there was water up to the [...]
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Monday, August 29, 2005 News Release: George Clooney/Rande Gerber Plan $3 Billion Hotel-Casino-Condo Complex By Dave Berns George Clooney, Rande Gerber and Preeminent Real Estate Developers to Transform Las Vegas Skyline With Las Ramblas
NEW YORK, NY USA 08/29/2005
Related Las Vegas and Centra Properties to Partner With Clooney and Gerber
in Unprecedented Hotel-Condominium-Casino Complex
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Monday, August 29, 2005 Daily News Round-Up 8-29: George Clooney Plans $3 Billion Resort Complex By Dave Berns Today’s Los Angeles Times reports on the plans of actor George Clooney and nightclub developer Rande Gerber to build a $3 billion hotel-casino-condo complex along Harmon Avenue, near the Hard Rock.
This won’t be a resort for the tank top, shorts and fanny-pack crowd that plies the sidewalks of Las Vegas Boulevard to [...]
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Friday, August 26, 2005 Sheehan needs to change tactics By Len Butcher Cindy Sheehan, self-appointed spokesperson for the anti-war movement, is taking her show on the road after camping out in Crawford, Texas without getting to have a one-on-one with President Bush.
What this will accomplish, other than dividing America even more, is questionable. No matter what side you take concerning America’s presence in Iraq, you have to [...]
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Thursday, August 25, 2005 Trashing the talk shows By Len Butcher I was glancing through the TV Guide last night, counting the number of talk shows that we can watch if we’re so inclined and it struck me that they fall into three categories — humor, drama, and sports. The remainder are so ridiculous no word in the dictionary could describe them. But what I [...]
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