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March Almanac: On these days in our city’s history …
News Comments Updated: Mar 07, 2013 12:47pmMarch 1, 1991: Of the total convict population in Nevada’s prisons, 131 inmates have tested positive for the AIDS virus.March 2, 2002: A government study concludes that about 15,000 people have died...
Sending an angel: Toshia Shaw is saving troubled girls one at a time
News Comments Updated: Mar 13, 2013 8:32pmThe girls are not bad girls.They are unruly, yes, defiant at times, yes, but not bad. If there’s anything bad about them, it’s where they’ve come from. Often they are missing mothers, fathers,...
Troubled pols fell from grace long before Brooks, Bonaventura
News Comments Updated: Mar 13, 2013 8:24pmIt’s too bad lemmings don’t really leap into the ocean at regular intervals.The myth of lemmings’ mass suicide would be a good metaphor for the self-destructive urges of the elected leadership of...
With vaccine programs losing funds, sequester cuts favor disease
News Comments Mar 07, 2013 12:05pmIn 1674 an English doctor, Thomas Willis, described what we now call whooping cough, a disease chiefly afflicting children and infants and characterized by the distinctive “whooping” of its victims...
The Doral Academy is an example of how to create an ‘arts-integration’ charter school in a lot of not particularly easy steps
News Comments Updated: Mar 07, 2013 1:12amWhoever heard of something rising from the ashes of a phoenix? That’s what’s taking place just off the 215 Beltway on the far west side of town. Doral Academy of Nevada charter school is moving into...
‘Sequester’ is a dumb word that masks painful budget cuts — and local impacts
News Comments Updated: Mar 07, 2013 1:11amThis time, it looks like Congress and the White House really will take America — and Nevada — over the fiscal cliff. Those pillars of government agreed in the Budget Control Act of 2011 to deliver...
The county considers yanking news racks from the Strip for, you got it, safety reasons
News Comments Feb 27, 2013 5:44pmFOR DECADES, casinos, elected leaders and assorted interested parties have conducted a mostly losing war with outcall and escort services and several of their preferred methods of advertising, namely...
Courthouse concert
On the scene Comments Feb 20, 2013 6:38pmI HAVE ONLY BEEN in the Lloyd D. George U.S. Courthouse jury assembly room twice. As you can imagine, neither visit was voluntary. In fact, I wanted to be anywhere but — especially the last time,...
Crime is down. Spirits are up. The once-notorious Naked City still has a long way to go, but the change is undeniable.
News Comments Updated: Feb 27, 2013 5:53pmCall it Naked City, Meadow Village or Whores Alley, it’s not the same place it was.Just off the Strip, it was the place to go in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s when you needed a quick bump of rock cocaine,...
‘They don’t know what we face’: Las Vegas Dreamer Alan Aleman talks immigration reform and how his life has changed since meeting Obama
News Comments Updated: Feb 27, 2013 5:55pmTwenty-year-old Alan Aleman was the first Las Vegan to receive a work permit thorough the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a federal program that allows undocumented young people who came to...
