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Archive for July, 2006
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 Quick Hits: On our brave new world, and Goodman By Steve Sebelius • When will it end? First the U.S. Surgeon General put out a report that says a mere whiff of secondhand smoke will instantly give you cancer, and now the American Cancer Society is saying tobacco use will kill a billion people this century alone.
And yet, in dropping somebody off at the airport, we [...]
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Monday, July 10, 2006 And how was your week? By Len Butcher As Yogi Berra once said, “It’s déjà vu all over again.†That’s just what it seems like as I look back at the previous week’s news. War in Iraq a mess but now it’s more sect against sect than terrorists against U.S. troops. Maybe our government should take a page from the cops during the [...]
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Monday, July 10, 2006 Hold on a second, Corporate Overlord! By Steve Sebelius We at Various Things & Stuff have not always agreed with our corporate overlords in the Stephens Media Group. But they leave us alone to do our thing on this blog and in CityLife, which is the highest praise we can offer for news executives.
But a column penned by our corporate Overlord-in-Chief, Sherm Frederick [...]
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Monday, July 10, 2006 Quick Hits: On video games; Goodman; Jesus; and Greenspun By Steve Sebelius What? Las Vegas is under terrorist attack! Bullets are flying, martial law is being imposed and police are shooting even more than usual! Holy shit!
Oh, wait, it’s only a video game.
That’s right, the latest edition of author Tom Clancy’s video game series Rainbow Six takes place right here in Las Vegas, both on [...]
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Monday, July 10, 2006 Movies are going digital By Ian Mylchreest The movie industry is raising big money to make its screens digital, reports the Los Angeles Times. National CineMedia — a joint venture of AMC Entertainment Inc., Cinemark USA Inc. and Regal Entertainment Group — has hired JPMorgan Chase & Co. to raise $1 billion from hedge funds, private equity firms and banks to finance [...]
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Friday, July 7, 2006 Quick Hits on Jersey, judical lollygagging, and better late than never By Steve Sebelius There’s no better way to wrap up the week than a batch of delicious Quick Hits. Unless it’s Quick Hits washed down with some fine Scotch! But it’s too early for Scotch, you drunks! Just eat the Quick Hits.
• That didn’t last long. It took New Jersey’s Legislature hardly any time at all to [...]
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Friday, July 7, 2006 Tobacco suit goes down in flames By Ian Mylchreest Phillip Morris and R.J. Reynolds won a big one yesterday, reports the New York Times, when the Florida Supreme Court rejected class action status for the state’s smokers and thus killed a $145 billion jury verdict.
The whole project was ill-conceived from the start. There obviously was a common link in cigarette-smoking but class action requires [...]
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Thursday, July 6, 2006 Quick Hits, on the Macks, Coyote Springs, Jersey casinos and Deane By Steve Sebelius We’ve been on a Quick Hit diet, and we’re wasting away to normal! Somebody bake up some hits. Quick!
• So the murder/attempted murder trial of accused courthouse sniper Darren Mack is being moved to Clark County, to avoid conflicts in Reno.
That’s good. He should get a fair trial here. It’s not like anything [...]
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Thursday, July 6, 2006 Man of the people By Steve Sebelius Hey, kids, have you seen Henderson Mayor Jim Gibson’s newest ad slamming gubernatorial rival state Sen. Dina Titus? We saw it this weekend, most notably while watching The History Channel’s excellent series, The Presidents. (Our favorite: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with John F. Kennedy running a close second.)
Anyway, the ad depicts Titus on the floor [...]
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Wednesday, July 5, 2006 Development sparking on North Strip — and in Sparks By David McKee It’s a beehive of activity on the North Strip and Dan Ahrens, founder of the new Gaming & Casino Fund has a good idea why. “Investors are looking for the next Aztar bidding war and they may be over-enthusiastic over what property in the [North Strip] space is worth,” he says. Not that said situation [...]
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