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by Vin Suprynowicz
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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by Vin Suprynowicz
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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by Vin Suprynowicz
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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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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by Vin Suprynowicz
Thursday, May. 14, 2009 at 2:52 PM
Nevada is an "open carry" state. That is to say, while state and local governments impose certain unconstitutional restrictions on the God-given (and constitutionally guaranteed) right to carry a weapon concealed, there is no state law...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Friday, May. 08, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Call me cynical, but I happen to know how easy it is for people from the White House, the Treasury and the Federal Reserve to call in some favors, finding a few shills with appropriate academic credentials after their names to put out some...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Wednesday, Apr. 29, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Attended the press preview of the new Trent Carlini Elvis show, "Elvolution," at the Steve Wyrick Showroom, Miracle Mile shops, Planet Hollywood, on the Strip on April 24.
Trent Carlini has a great voice. He's an excellent showman. He may...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Monday, Apr. 27, 2009 at 6:27 PM
I see where "Forty years after the Woodstock music festival, downtown Las Vegas is looking for people who want to relive the groovy days of 1969.
"The Fremont Street Experience is paying tribute to 1969 all summer with free rock concerts,...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Wednesday, Apr. 15, 2009 at 2:46 PM
“You will hear other people testify it is their right to stay unbuckled. It is their right to put their life at risk," testified state Sen. Mike Schneider, D-Las Vegas, at the Legislature in Carson City Tuesday. "I say if you want to...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Tuesday, Apr. 14, 2009 at 3:40 PM
Attempting to restore both morale and fiscal sanity to a county hospital whose previous gang of imported Chicago operators face indictments for misappropriation of funds -- a public hospital still hemorrhaging cash and thus requiring taxpayer...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Sunday, Apr. 12, 2009 at 2:00 AM
I’m very lucky. Despite what our energetic young bankers-turned-derivative-peddlers have done -- are still doing, that’s the amazing part -- to our economy, I still have a job.
I was going to say I’m doubly lucky because...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Friday, Apr. 10, 2009 at 7:16 AM
Professor Don writes in from one of the groves of the academe in South Carolina:
“Mr. Suprynowicz: You have clearly identified the predicament. May I ask your ideas regarding a solution to Obama’s State Capitalism?"
I replied: Hi,...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Thursday, Apr. 09, 2009 at 6:15 PM
J.D. writes in: "I have been buying up antique guns with my cash.
"I see my gun collection as assets. When I lose my job, and am dirt poor, I will be able to sell off guns, one at a time to pay for things. I will always be able to trade 4...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Wednesday, Apr. 08, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Found recently in our weekly peregrinations to local yard sales and thrift shops: a 1997 first printing of "Fox One," a graphic novel (comic book with hardcover pictorial boards) by Renaud Garreta and Olivier Vidal, from Dargaud Diffusion,...
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by Vin Suprynowicz
Tuesday, Apr. 07, 2009 at 6:14 AM
Mom called the other day. Born before the start of the Great Depression, raised in a converted one-room Ohio schoolhouse that didn't even have indoor plumbing when they were kids, Mom is still going strong. She was in the process of packing to visit...
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