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Archive for October, 2007
Friday, October 19, 2007 The rock of shame? By Steve Sebelius Our old friend Sue Brna — a community activist, artist and all around good person — e-mailed us a photo this week that we find amusing, outrageous and sad, all at once. Check it out and you’ll see what we mean:
It’s a dedication plaque at Desert Breeze Park. If you look closely at the [...]
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 Seriously, get a new line already By Steve Sebelius The Review-Journal has a new traffic writer, Francis McCabe. So he probably doesn’t know that each and every time the Las Vegas monorail releases its disappointing ridership numbers, its chief spokeswoman says the same goddamn thing over and over again.
So we can forgive McCabe for dutifully penning this line in a story last Saturday: [...]
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 Stop the insanity! By Steve Sebelius "Things have changed. Times have changed. This is cruelty, and if you’re watching, you are just as guilty." – Clark County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly, on dog fighting, quoted in the Review-Journal.
No, commissioner, you’re not.
Standing around watching a dog fight is not the same as conducting a dog fight. And the fact that this [...]
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 Ron Paul for president! By Steve Sebelius We at Various Things & Stuff were a guest this week on State of Nevada on KNPR-FM 89.5. (Our thanks to host Dave Berns for the invite.) Anyway, a caller named Muhammad asked us about why U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, doesn’t get more coverage. (He’s running for president, after all.) And we promised to [...]
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 Ethics Commission missing the point By Steve Sebelius We were intrigued by the state Ethics Commission’s recent written ruling in a 2006 case up in Lander County. It seems that a woman by the name of Kathleen Ancho, who works as the secretary to the sheriff up in those parts, wanted to run for the Lander County Commission. And the Ethics Commission said [...]
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 Rogers has your budget cuts right here By Steve Sebelius Can university Chancellor Jim Rogers really tell Gov. Jim Gibbons to go budget cut himself? Because that seems an awful lot like what Rogers is doing.
Gibbons has reacted to some recent declines in state tax revenue by scheduling, and then canceling, a news conference, and then by asking his department heads to examine 5 [...]
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 Low bar, but what the hell: Confirm! By Steve Sebelius In a sign of how far we’ve come under the presidency of George W. Bush, we we find ourselves typing these words: Congratulations to attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey for renouncing torture and promising not to politicize the Justice Department.
You’d think that promising to follow international and United States law against torture and not [...]
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Monday, October 15, 2007 Um, did we miss anthing? By Steve Sebelius Although it might seem like we took last week off, readers, we really didn’t. We were working! We had to attend a meeting of Stephens Media LLC editors, which really takes a lot of concentration. We had to put out our annual Media Issue of CityLife, which is always involved. (Oh, by the way, our [...]
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Ho-Hum, more Mideast peace talks By Len Butcher It looks like talks will begin again on trying to work out a solution for a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians and a future Palestinian state. Both sides, particularly the Palestinians, are revving up for a conference next month that will be hosted by the United States. I realize the U.S. is Israel’s [...]
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Monday, October 8, 2007 Not dead … just busy! By Steve Sebelius We know we haven’t blogged in a week readers — things have been crazy busy at our offices inside the nondescript industrial building near McCarran International Airport. And it’s going to get worse before it gets better. We’ve got to be in an all day meeting Tuesday, and most of Wednesday, so we won’t be [...]
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