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by Jane Ann Morrison
Monday, Mar. 05, 2012 at 12:27 PM
Next Labor Day Weekend, if you see Clark County firefighters collecting money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, they’ll be doing it on their own time for the first time.
Fire Chief Bertral Washington has put the kibosh on firefighters...
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by Jane Ann Morrison
Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012 at 2:50 PM
Presuming the applause meter was accurate at the Clark County Republican Lincoln Day Dinner, then former Sen. Bob Beers will be the next member of the Las Vegas City Council in a few weeks.
The applause for him was noticeably louder than the...
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by Jane Ann Morrison
Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 at 1:49 PM
Media preview day for the Mob Museum on Monday generated exactly the kind of national coverage most organizers didn’t want.
The New York Times’ headline: “Las Vegas Embraces Bad Guys of Its Past.”
ABC News: “Las Vegas...
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by Jane Ann Morrison
Monday, Oct. 17, 2011 at 8:59 PM
Six felony charges against former Assemblyman Morse Arberry Jr. will be knocked down to one misdemeanor at a hearing Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. before Las Vegas Justice Court Judge Diana Sullivan.
In June, Arberry, D-Las Vegas , was charged with six...
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by Jane Ann Morrison
Wednesday, Oct. 05, 2011 at 2:46 PM
Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak has positioned himself as a vocal watchdog over the county’s dollars. He took on the Clark County firefighters benefits and made enemies among firefighters, and admirers among voters.
The...
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by Jane Ann Morrison
Friday, Sep. 30, 2011 at 5:03 PM
The ups and downs of the relationship between Las Vegas PR titans and onetime business associates Billy Vassiliadis and Sig Rogich were first noted in my Aug. 2, 2007 column about personal and business reasons why they stopped speaking to each other...
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by Jane Ann Morrison
Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2011 at 8:08 PM
Curt Thompson is a natural story-teller and shared two memories, one where the celebrity looked bad, the second where the celebrity looked good.
The director of operations at the Railroad Pass was giving a preview of the casino’s 80th...
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by Jane Ann Morrison
Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 at 6:29 PM
Las Vegas attorney Gary Logan didn't exactly attend Elizabeth Taylor's Las Vegas wedding to Eddie Fisher. He watched her come out of Temple Beth Shalom afterward.
"I remember she was wearing a dark, kelly green dress and she was...
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by Jane Ann Morrison
Wednesday, Mar. 09, 2011 at 4:30 PM
U.S. Sen. John Ensign wants people to learn two things from his regrettable affair: "One is, don't do it. Second, if it does happen, it doesn't have to ruin your marriage. You can work things out."
It took Ensign months to rebuild his...
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by Jane Ann Morrison
Thursday, Feb. 03, 2011 at 10:23 PM
Over the years when I’ve written columns critical of either Clark County or Las Vegas firefighters, I have ALWAYS received calls or e-mails from firefighters or their families blasting me for my comments. When I questioned whether it was...
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by Jane Ann Morrison
Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011 at 11:35 AM
UNLV Assistant Basketball Coach Lew Hill and I finally connected this morning and he explained why he declines to put his hand over his heart when the National Anthem is played, the topic of today's column. He said his father served in Vietnam and...
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by Jane Ann Morrison
Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 at 4:30 PM
The list of people attending tonight’s state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao is long, but I scrolled down to see if any Las Vegans were going and hit the jackpot with Jim and Heather Murren.
But I noticed they weren’t identified....
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by Jane Ann Morrison
Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 at 11:53 PM
The race is on to fill those 1,000 jobs up for grabs at Station Casinos.
Since Friday's announcement, the company has received 13,000 applications, and they're still pouring in.
Lori Nelson, spokeswoman for Station Casinos, said they have booked...
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by Jane Ann Morrison
Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011 at 6:21 PM
Clark County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani is considering a run for mayor of Las Vegas, telling me she has a passion for downtown redevelopment and can bring about change more quickly in the city than in the county.
But she’s not...
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by Jane Ann Morrison
Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 at 9:17 AM
Trust me, I’m not the only movie lover upset about Regal Entertainment Group’s new nationwide policy to stop running newspaper ads giving the movie times. Since my column Saturday, I’ve been deluged with 180-plus contacts so far...
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