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Thursday, Nov. 05, 2009 at 7:02 PM
"Heightened efforts by the Drug Enforcement Administration to crack down on narcotics abuse are producing a troubling side effect by denying some hospice and elderly patients needed pain medication," reported Washington Post staff writer...
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Thursday, Nov. 05, 2009 at 4:17 PM
On Feb. 5, 2009, the Newark The Star-Ledger reported “People caught with machine guns or other illegal assault weapons will face harsher penalties under a bill signed into law today by Gov. Jon Corzine, who used the occasion to push for...
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Tuesday, Sep. 29, 2009 at 5:45 AM
Caught a recent Fab show at the Cannery on Craig Road.
Pat Woodward’s The Fab has been going strong in this town for 14 years, through thick and thin. (I actually caught them one night more than a decade ago playing to a bunch of head-bangers...
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Thursday, Sep. 10, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Congressional Democrats may well betray Barack Obama’s dream of direct government-run health insurance. But they do appear united, at least, in their determination to bar insurance companies from denying coverage for “pre-existing...
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Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 at 8:07 PM
"Hooters Hotel posted a net loss of $5 million in the second quarter ended June 30 as the property continues to work with its lenders on a possible financial restructuring," said the news flash Friday morning, the news coming from a Friday...
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Friday, Jul. 31, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd said today he has been diagnosed with an early stage of prostate cancer. To set an example for the nation, even though the new thousand-page health-rationing bill they propose has not yet become law, both he and...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Friday, Jul. 31, 2009 at 2:12 PM
A Las Vegas police officer accidentally shot himself in the knee early Friday during "training" at the department's gun range, a department spokesman said. Local oddsmakers have set their early line at 3-2 that the subsequent cornoner's inquest will...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Thursday, Jul. 30, 2009 at 5:39 PM
"We must fix the energy bill and save the Clean Air Act," opines a local letter-writer –– though I think I may detect some Democratic Party talking points. "The energy bill that passed the House of Representatives was...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Wednesday, Jul. 29, 2009 at 3:45 PM
The most revealing thing about the arrest of Harvard "Black Studies Professor" Henry Louis Gates was the way his personal buddy, Barack Obama, cast aside the traditional reserve of a president asked to comment on a local law enforcement...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Wednesday, Jul. 22, 2009 at 5:27 PM
"WASHINGTON (AP) - Obama to tell nation that health reform is key to economic recovery, controlling deficit," said today's 3:06 p.m. news flash.
No, actually, the key to economic recovery and controlling the deficit is giving me 10,000...
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Wednesday, Jul. 22, 2009 at 6:20 AM
There was our usually sensible colleague, Charles Krauthammer, on the front page of the Review-Journal's "Viewpoints" section Sunday, arguing that despite the current fiat currency meltdown, "All we need is sufficient funding from the...
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Wednesday, Jul. 01, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Review-Journal Wednesday news flash: "Doctor gets probation, fine, reprimand in hepatitis outbreak:
"Dr. Eladio Carrera, a co-owner of the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada, received two years probation, a $15,000 fine and a public...
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Friday, Jun. 05, 2009 at 5:37 PM
I wrote a few weeks back about a neighborhood of small Las Vegas businesses whose customers find "you can't get there from here."
You can sit in traffic on West Charleston Boulevard near the I-15 overpass in downtown Las Vegas, and stare...
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Thursday, Jun. 04, 2009 at 8:13 PM
How about that photo on page 3A of Thursday’s Review-Journal, featuring Nevada’s Assembly Speaker, Democrat Barbara Buckley, giving a big horse laugh as she wound down her triumphal 2009 legislative session?
Or the equally shocking...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Tuesday, May. 19, 2009 at 5:08 PM
A last-minute amendment adopted in Carson City late last week by the Senate Government Affairs Committee would allow the union that represents Metro police to negotiate wage and benefit contracts directly with the Clark County sheriff, shutting out...
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