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Monday, August 8, 2005
In memorium…
By Steve Sebelius
The world of journalism lost two greats in recent days. By now, everybody knows Peter Jennings, anchor of ABC’s World News Tonight died Sunday of lung cancer. A Canadian, Jennings eventually achieved dual American citizenship, as he strove to understand and explain his adopted country to its citizens five nights a week. Jennings quit smoking [...]
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Monday, August 8, 2005
Democrats prospects mostly cloudy
By Steve Sebelius
We at Various Things & Stuff love Erin Neff, the Review-Journal’s political reporter. We look forward to what is usually a drab Monday paper mostly for her weekly “Political Notebook” column. And this week was no exception: Guess who the Democrats are trying to recruit to run against U.S. Rep. Jon Porter? (Bear [...]
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Monday, August 8, 2005
Cruising on a Sunday afternoon…
By Steve Sebelius
The Las Vegas political world is abuzz with news that Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio, a Republican, (and their wives) took a cruise of the Baltic Sea arranged by Cox Communications. Both lawmakers insisted on paying for the cruise, but since Cox booked a pretty large group, both [...]
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Sunday, August 7, 2005
We’re back, baby!
By Steve Sebelius
We’re back, baby! April 12, 2005 was a dark day in Las Vegas: That was the last time the Review-Journal’s e-mail newsletter, the EARLY LINE, was published. For those of you who couldn’t afford the outrageous price of the EARLY LINE (some $350 per year) or who didn’t have a hooked-up friend who was nice [...]
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