This week readers want to know when the construction at Fort Apache Road and Sahara Avenue is going to wrap up and when the Warm Springs Road overpass at Interstate 15 is going to be redone. Also, the Road Warrior passes on some advice for commuters displaced by the I-15 North project and settles a bet worth a free car wash.
News Columns
No matter how worthwhile the conference, the suspicious in our midst always view travel by legislators as a boondoggle. Maybe it’s travel envy, knowing the taxpayer pays for their good times in good places, usually in high-end hotels. And July and August are wonderful months for Las Vegans to get out of town.
Fuel taxes are going the way of the stegosaurus, dodo bird and Jean Claude Van Damme’s film career.
Doggone it, I’ve gone to the dogs during the dog days of summer, doggedly determined to delve into the world of dog-eat-dog entertainment. Drat.
I’m feeling disenfranchised, and I’m mad about it, so I’m looking for someone to blame.
This week readers want to know when the new Las Vegas Beltway interchange with Lake Mead Boulevard is going to open, are sound walls going to be erected on both sides of the Beltway at Desert Inn Road, and what exactly do “when children are present” school signs mean? And we learn about a personalized licence plate that will save one valley driver from being pulled over by police if O.J. Simpson makes a break for it during his upcoming trial.
Oh, to be Harry Reid’s kid. You want something, you get it.
Thousands of north valley commuters will fall prey to a nightmarish commute starting this week.
Just call me Princess Tenpercenter, my new Indian name taken in honor of my proud Cherokee ancestry and the 10 percent who officials claim are the only ones who have trouble with the signage at McCarran International Airport.
Many wondered why no whistle-blowers notified authorities about issues with Dr. Dipak Desai. The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Paul Harasim answered that question Sunday in his in-depth report.
This week readers want to know what the rules are for two lanes of traffic making left turns onto a three-lane road, why the road at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Bonanza Road is being dug up, and why school zone signs are flashing near Jones Boulevard and Washington Avenue even though school’s out for the summer. Plus, a reader offers a special hit ‘n’ run about the oil organization we all love to hate, especially this year.
If your child were found dead, would you show emotion?
Vita Grasmick didn’t mind waiting 15 minutes to fill up her Mitsubishi’s gasoline tank on Wednesday.
Annoyances that cannot be fixed are too numerous to list, but sometimes you see easy-to-fix annoyances that would take so little to change.
Life after the Legislature is proactive rather than reactive. And it’s freeing. At least, that’s what it’s like for former state Sen. Ann O’Connell.