Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman has delivered six State of the City speeches, and I’ve critiqued every one of them. No. 6, delivered Jan. 12, wasn’t brilliant, but clearly she’s improving.
Jane Ann Morrison
Air travelers already face shrinking seats, smaller bathrooms, fear of terrorism and outbursts of rage. A Department of Transportation proposal would create a new annoyance to drive us mad in a confined space: cellphone chatter.
Governmental ethics agencies have been favorite targets of politicians, nationally and statewide.
I know how you can get free parking at MGM’s Las Vegas properties, whether you’re a local or an out-of-towner.
A public service announcement featuring Levi Krystosek and UNLV basketball coach Marvin Menzies is intended to raise awareness about Las Vegas-based Miracle Flights, not raise money.
Ryan Crosby’s story and another involving a class from Canyon Springs High School are extraordinary testimonials about a program that receives little publicity yet changes lives. We the People is a nationwide competition started in 1987 by the Center for Civic Education.
Harry Reid isn’t your typical politician. He isn’t handsome or charming, he doesn’t like to socialize and he is barely civil at times, much less warm and friendly.
Victoria Seaman believes she would have won a key state Senate race — and helped Republicans retain control of the Legislature’s upper chamber — if she hadn’t faced a primary challege from a fellow Assembly member.
Before she died, Phyllis Frias created a trust to ensure the riches she and her husband, Charlie, built through their seven transportation companies returned to Southern Nevada.
What started out as a way to tout the spirit of cooperation between the IRS and the Mob Museum in Las Vegas ended up as an embarrassment to the IRS.
Robert Griffin could have used his photographic memory to count cards in Nevada casinos. Instead, he used it to identify card counters and stop cheaters.
A federal lawsuit accuses Las Vegas attorneys Dennis Prince, George Ranalli and Sylvia Esparza of racketeering and civil conspiracy for trying to defraud an insurance company out of more than $18 million.
A local 6-year-old girl is called fat by her peers. Research says such harmful behavior is quite common.
Child custody cases have become far more complicated today because the definition of “family” is so much more complex. Case in point: A Nevada custody battle over the child of two lesbian women and involving the definition of motherhood is still in the courts some eight years after it began.
The FBI’s ongoing probe of Las Vegas Councilman Ricki Barlow offers a good opportunity to remind the public that Nevada’s financial disclosure statements are useless.