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Immigration reform protest planned for May Day

Comprehensive reform of the nation’s 60-year-old immigration laws once appeared to be almost impossible, but more than 100 people gathered in downtown Las Vegas Wednesday on what they hoped would be...
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What the frack?

To frack or not to frack?

This isn’t a question from Battlestar Galactica, but a serious environmental issue. Several companies have expressed interest in bringing the...

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Local dignitaries and Center staff (including Candice Nichols, second to last on right) christen the new building (COURTESY: ALLYSON LIMON)

Musical chairs happening at new gay and lesbian center

The morning of April 6 was a memorable day for Candice Nichols. That morning, she oversaw the grand opening and ribbon cutting of the new Gay and Lesbian Center of Southern Nevada -- aka...

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Power and water: Yes to clean energy, no to dirty water

The first week of April is shaping up to be a pretty happy one for treehuggers in this part of the country. Two items of significant environmental import dropped Wednesday.One is that NV Energy,...
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Speaking in favor, from left: Marybel Batjer, Katrina and Christy Ross

1,600 years isn't a bad run: hearings on Nevada's gay-marriage ban

While the nation’s eyes turned to the U.S. Supreme Court and the debate over same-sex marriage, Nevada had its own turn at the issue. The Legislature on Tuesday debated Senate Joint Resolution 13, a...
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Ten years of Iraq

Ten years: Visual commentary by Aaron McKinney

On the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. Topical art by Aaron McKinney.

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Quote of the week (so far)

“JOHN, YOU’RE GOING TO BE PAID FOR TWO MORE YEARS, NO MATTER WHAT.”

— County Commissioner Tom Collins, offering a single morsel of good news for Constable John Bonaventura on Tuesday....

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Bill-rush the Legislature

Among the 383 bills introduced in the Legislature during the five days before Monday’s cutoff were proposals that would:
• Pardon black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, convicted by an all-...

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Yerington lawmaker thinks Vegas should keep its own revenue!

Clark County's chronically underfunded schools could see their money woes vanish in an instant if state lawmakers heed the advice of Assembly Minority Whip Tom Grady, of Yerington. Last week, Mr....

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From today's RJ

Right on, corporate sibling! First F-bomb lands in RJ

What does it mean when the daily paper of record drops the f-bomb?
Long the domain of alternative weeklies, “fucking” has never appeared in print in the Las Vegas Review-Journal before, but...

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