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Archive for October, 2005
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 Smut patrol slams TV shows By Len Butcher The Parents Television Council is not happy. In its list of the Top 10 “best†and “worst list†for family viewing, there may be some surprises, but the Council says, “Part of our reason for putting this list out is to shame the networks.” That may be so, but if you think the networks that [...]
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 Vote Scheduled on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Oversight By Dave Berns Both houses of Congress are set to vote on legislation that would tighten oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, reports today’s Washington Post.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 Wal-Mart Memo Eyes Health Care Costs By Dave Berns An internal memo from a top Wal-Mart executive proposes ways the retail giant can keep down health-care costs while limiting the hits that could result to the company’s reputation, reports today’s New York Times. (Registration required. No fee for access.)
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 Quick R-J poll comment By Steve Sebelius It’s customary to quibble with polls, especially the hit-and-miss polls published in the Review-Journal conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. (We at Various Things & Stuff once won a nice bottle of wine from R-J Editor Tom Mitchell after he foolishly bought into an R-J poll that suggested U.S. Sen. John Kerry was 10 [...]
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005 Time for a privacy check By Len Butcher Privacy. We all want it, and most of us have it, if we so desire. It’s also much easier when you’re not famous or infamous. It is doubtful that you are going to be pursued by paparazzi if you work in a bank or sling hash in a diner. But what if you are a [...]
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005 With friends like these By Steve Sebelius Let’s put something to rest right now: Anybody who says he’s pro-cop but opposes the contract with the police officer’s union is being disingenuous. At best.
(That contract was rejected at the Metro Fiscal Affairs meeting Monday.)
Why do we say that? Somebody told us at Various Things & Stuff a long time ago that [...]
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005 Top 10 reasons to can Barry Horstman By Steve Sebelius Everybody knows David Letterman is the king of Top 10 lists, a regular staple of his show for years. And everybody knows that part of the charm of the list is that some items aren’t funny. But the key is, most are funny.
So why is the Las Vegas Sun going in the opposite direction, [...]
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Monday, October 24, 2005 DMV making a grave mistake By Len Butcher A local news report today informed me that the DMV (that’s the place with the long lines) is trying to put together a driver’s instruction booklet in Spanish for Nevada’s Hispanic community. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want anyone behind the wheel of a vehicle who can’t read and understand English. [...]
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Monday, October 24, 2005 Cop contract cop-out By Steve Sebelius As the super-informed know by now, the Metro Police Fiscal Affairs Committee voted 3-2 today to reject a proposed police contract that could have seen big raises for Las Vegas police officers. Instead, the vote sends the matter to what non-English speaking bureaucrats call a “non-binding, fact-finding process.”
The swing vote on the committee — [...]
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Monday, October 24, 2005 Us? Blather? That’s folderol! By Steve Sebelius We at Various Things & Stuff didn’t really expect Review-Journal editor Tom Mitchell to respond to our blog of last Sunday, when we questioned his Oct. 16 column that said objectivity was the R-J’s goal. After all, we provided two concrete examples of media bias for which the R-J has yet to apologize or issue [...]
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