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Archive for June 14th, 2006
Wednesday, June 14, 2006 Program note By Steve Sebelius We at Various Things & Stuff are headed to the Deep South — Little Rock, Ark., to be specific. We're attending the annual convention of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) where our beloved CityLife is applying for membership. If something totally blog-worthy happens, we'll try to use our BlackBerry to post. But if not, [...]
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 Something missing? By Steve Sebelius A few years ago, we at Various Things & Stuff took a trip to Washington, D.C. for a journalism convention. While there, we made a point to visit with each member of the Nevada delegation (save for U.S. Sen. John Ensign, who had an unexpected engagement back in Nevada). But before Ensign left, we attended [...]
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 Quick (money, union, corruption) hits! By Steve Sebelius • Wow, how can we at Various Things & Stuff get a job at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority? They pay the mad coin, yo!
According to today's Review-Journal, President Rossi Ralenkotter stands to pull down $317,714 next year. That's the combination of a 5 percent raise, which brings his base salary to [...]
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 The fugitive: Frances Deane By Steve Sebelius They've got good doctors at the Clark County Detention Center.
That's our response to the news that Clark County Recorder Frances Deane is using a recent surgery to dodge showing up to be properly arrested for allegedly selling documents maintained by her office to private businessmen. Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Karen Bennett-Haron generously [...]
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 Interest rates will rise on inflation By Ian Mylchreest Inflation for both wholesale goods and the consumer price index is rising more than analysts and government officials hoped, reports the Associated Press. Gas prices pushed the Consumer Price Index up 0.4 percent in May or nearly 5 percent on an annual basis.
Even the core inflation rate (without food and gas) rose 0.3 percent, which [...]
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 It's not illegal but By Ian Mylchreest Dallas Mavericks' owner and Internet and TV mogul Mark Cuban is building a new Web site to report on stock fraud and corporate wrongdoing, reports the San Jose Mercury News. The site, he promises, will be much more interesting and lively than traditional reporting and will span the globe to deal with transnational corporations that [...]
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 Bring back the woodshed By Len Butcher One of our local high school kids was involved in a food fight at school. The school, in a rare act of courage, told him he wouldn’t be able to attend his graduation. Boo hoo! Everyone seems to be up in arms over the school’s decision, bringing up that old nugget of “Boys will be [...]
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