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Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31, 2007 Say it isn't so, Madam AG! By Steve Sebelius You know, we were just talking to the delightful Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto the other day, and we had no idea she was even contemplating an appeal in that brothel advertising case that CityLife won the other day. (Oh, sure, our crack attorney — Allen Lichtenstein of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada [...]
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Friday, August 31, 2007 Enjoy your weekend, with these Quick Hits! By Steve Sebelius U.S. Sen. John Ensign's always been kind of odd. His pre-political career was both as a casino manager and a veterinarian. He lives in a house in Washington D.C. run by a secretive religious organization. He doesn't think much of government, but he spent a lot of money to become part of government. He doesn't [...]
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Thursday, August 30, 2007 Powerful … yet stylish, too! By Steve Sebelius We at Various Things & Stuff pride ourselves on our style. We're very stylish. Everybody says so. And that's why we read magazines like GQ, which cool people know is short for Gentleman's Quarterly. (It's really a monthly, but whatever. When you're stylish like us, little things like that aren't errors; they're quirks!)
Anyway, we [...]
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Thursday, August 30, 2007 Thursday Quick Hits: Watch out for the train! By Steve Sebelius Yes, "Las Vegas dodged a bullet" when engineers were able to stop a train that simply rolled away from the yard, right through the center of Las Vegas all the way into North Las Vegas. So, tell us again: Why are we supposed to believe that trains carrying nuclear waste across the country to Yucca [...]
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 Wednesday's Quick Hits: We get all theological By Steve Sebelius "For somebody to feel they're going to testify before the grand jury, they must have a very profound sense of their innocence." – defense attorney (and former prosecutor) Charles Kelly, referring to former Clark County Commissioner Lynette Boggs' decision to testify to a grand jury investigating perjury and filing false document charges against her.
Yes, [...]
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007 The fall — and the rise? — of Fremont East By Mike Prevatt And there we were, supposedly more than a thousand of us waiting for a handful of signs to be lit up on the newly christened Fremont East Entertainment District. It was past 8 p.m. on Aug. 24, and Mayor McCheese — aka Oscar Goodman — and some City Council members weren't finished patting each other [...]
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007 Tuesday Quick Hits: We're fat. P-H-A-T, that is! By Steve Sebelius OK, OK! Enough with the lectures! We at Various Things & Stuff know we're fat! We're working on it, OK? It's just that, we love food! All kinds of food! And sometimes, we just can't help ourselves. It's totally unnecessary to put stories about Nevada being the 37th most obese state on the front page. [...]
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Monday, August 27, 2007 Praise the Lord and pass the football By Len Butcher “I found Jesus and I’ve turned my life over to God.” How many times have we heard murderers, rapists and other scum of the earth say these very words? So it was no surprise when they were uttered today by Michael Vick during a press conference as part of an apology and plea for forgiveness.
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Monday, August 27, 2007 This just in! Gibbons questions health care merger By Steve Sebelius Gov. Jim Gibbons, reacting to the state insurance commissioner's approval today of the acquisition of Health Plan of Nevada by UnitedHealth Group, expressed concerns about the effects the purchase would have on Nevada residents. The governor's office released this statement, calling for unspecified consumer protections.
Governor expresses concerns about mergercalls upon attorney general to pursue [...]
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Monday, August 27, 2007 That guy who ran against Ensign endorses Biden By Steve Sebelius We don't know how we'd avoided doing it up until now, but we realized today that we hadn't signed up for news releases from the Joe Biden for president campaign. That's why we were mercilessly scooped by our colleague Jon Ralston on the latest Biden presidential news: He's been endorsed by that guy who ran [...]
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