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Archive for September 27th, 2005
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Poverty needs to be addressed By Len Butcher Poverty. A dirty word. It crops up every so often, but not often enough, nor with enough intelligent debate about what to do about it in this land of plenty. Next year our government will spend more than $350 billion on poverty entitlements, hoping to alleviate a problem that an estimated 38 million Americans face. [...]
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Me-OW, baby! By Steve Sebelius That's the sound of a Class-A catfight you hear brewing in Carson City, as Nevada's first lady, Dema Guinn, takes aim at fellow Republican (and congressional hopeful) Dawn Gibbons, wife of would-be governor Jim Gibbons.
Dema Guinn says if Dawn Gibbons gets elected to Congress, she won't be able to fulfill the duties of first lady, [...]
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 The truth is… By Steve Sebelius So the head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Ken Tomlinson, has reached the end of his term. He sarcastically greeted the milestone, saying he could stand no more. (Remember this is the guy who hired outside contractors to determine if Bill Moyers was being too liberal.)
His replacement, alas, doesn't look to be much [...]
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Can't catch a break By Steve Sebelius Poor Station Casinos. The neighborhood gambling giant just can't seem to catch a break anywhere in Nevada. First, there was last year's epic battle over the height of the Red Rock Station. Second, there was the controversy over shutting out critics from a meeting on the planned Station Casino on Durango Drive and the Las [...]
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Crude Oil Prices Fall in Early Trading By Dave Berns "Light sweet crude for November delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange fell 60 cents to $65.22 a barrel in electronic trading by midday in Europe," reports The Associated Press. "It had risen $1.63 to settle at $65.82 Monday in New York on Monday after U.S. President George W. Bush said it was unclear [...]
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Frist Insists He Had Ethics Committee Approval for HCA Stock Sale By Dave Berns "Speaking publicly Monday for the first time about his sale of HCA Inc. stock, (Senate Majority Leader Bill) Frist told reporters he had received Senate Ethics Committee approval before authorizing the sale of shares. The sale was completed just before HCA's stock price dipped," reports The Associated Press.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Google Offers Prime-Time Video Replay By Dave Berns "It comes as Google increasingly ventures beyond its search roots as it battles the likes of Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp," reports The Associated Press.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 McCarran Sets August Travel Record By Dave Berns "Records are regularly broken when it comes to the local travel industry, which continues to fill hotel rooms using additional air service from existing destinations and new markets," writes today's Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Mississippi Legislature Eyes Future of State's Casino Industry By Dave Berns "Gov. Haley Barbour, who campaigned in 2003 on preventing the spread of gambling, is proposing to let coast casinos build on or near the shore - as long as they still have facilities touching water," writes today's Biloxi Sun Herald.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Post-Rita Gas Price Spike Expected By Dave Berns "With the largest U.S. refineries temporarily shut down because of the hurricane, analysts said prices probably would climb to about $3 for a gallon of regular. But prices should not spike as sharply as they did after Hurricane Katrina because damage to refineries appeared less severe, demand has eased slightly and imports of gasoline are [...]
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