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Archive for August, 2005


Wednesday, August 31, 2005
America responds to Katrina
By Len Butcher
It is impossible to imagine the pain, the anguish and loss of what tens of thousands of victims of Hurricane Katrina are experiencing. To be literally homeless overnight, not knowing where you’re going, how long you will be gone and when, if ever, you will be able to rebuild your life, is truly catastrophic. Watching [...]
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Jim Gibbons big day
By Steve Sebelius
Two years and six days ago, U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbons told the Review-Journal's Tony Batt that he wouldn't run for U.S. Senate against incumbent Harry Reid. The long-awaited news, later repeated at a Gibbons news conference at the Thomas & Mack, gave Reid an untroubled re-election and even gave rise to conspiracy theories that Reid [...]
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Katrina Pushes Gas Prices Past $3 Mark on Gulf Coast
By Dave Berns
Reuters reports that Hurricane Katrina could be the catalyst that pushes nationwide gas prices above $3 a gallon. "The spike in wholesale prices from below $2 last Friday came after Hurricane Katrina plowed through the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall near New Orleans, forcing shut at least eight refineries in Louisiana and Mississippi and [...]
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Flooding Continues to Engulf New Orleans
By Dave Berns
The Biloxi Sun-Herald staff provides chilling details of the flooding that has ravaged Biloxi, Gulfport and New Orleans. "Back in New Orleans, medics converted part of the Superdome — already the steamy home of 10,000 people — into a triage center for scores of the injured and sick, many of [...]
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Dario's new lawyers
By Steve Sebelius
Don’t call them second string, because the lawyers that former Clark County Commissioner Dario Herrera hired to defend himself from federal political corruption charges are top notch. New York’s Jerry Bernstein is a former federal strike force prosecutor, and knows all the tricks, while local Tony Sgro has seen the inside of more than his [...]
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Celebrity poker
By Steve Sebelius
Omigod! We’ve got celebrities. We’ve got a hotel/casino project. We’ve got Las Vegas. It’s critical mass, baby! A nuclear media meltdown! Of course, we’re referring to Las Ramblas, the high-rise hotel/casino/restaurant/nightclub/spa project fronted by Clooney, star of such hits as Oceans 11 as well as such bombs as Oceans 12 and personal nightmares like Oceans [...]
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
F-word under attack
By Len Butcher
Oh, oh! Get ready for battle. The F-word is being attacked. In fact, two F-words are, which means there will be a lot of f–king opinions being tossed around. The first is the F-word we are most familiar with — F–k. Seems the British, who we look to as being the guardians of the English [...]
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Just Spotted: Premium Gas for $2.99 a Gallon
By Dave Berns
Strangely, the price wasn't that shocking at the Shell Station in the northwest valley's Summerlin. Troubling, yes, but shocking? We're working on a story about the impact of rising gas prices on businesses. Any thoughts? Please share your comments below. Could the rising price of oil hurt the national, state and [...]
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Daily Business News Round-Up 8-30: Katrina Devastates Gulf Coast Businesses
By Dave Berns
Some of the Mississippi Gulf Coast's best-known casinos sustained extensive damage from Hurricane Katrina, reports today's Biloxi Sun-Herald. "Grand Casino Biloxi washed across U.S. 90. Treasure Bay's pirate ship was beached. Beau Rivage still stood, while Hard Rock Casino — scheduled to open in early September - was half destroyed," [...]
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Monday, August 29, 2005
The Dane of her existence
By Steve Sebelius
Review-Journal political reporter Erin Neff reports today that professional loser (that's our term, not hers) Tony Dane has purchased a bunch of Internet domain names using the name of Nevada Supreme Court Justice Nancy Becker. Dane says he's unsure if he's going to use them in a sure-to-fail campaign against Becker. On the one hand, [...]
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