This week, there will be two different kinds of motorists on local streets — those who are trying to get to CES 2016 and those who are trying to stay as far away from it as possible.
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The Nevada Supreme Court hit the restart button for attorney Noel Gage, one of three men convicted after an investigation into doctors and lawyers in cahoots to drive up medical costs in personal injury cases.
I’m an amateur when it comes to celebrating the arrival of the new year in the resort corridor. In my more than 20 years as a denizen of Southern Nevada, I’ve spent just two New Year’s Eves among the revelers, estimated this year to be around 332,000 strong.
If you are a regular reader of this column you already know that one of my ongoing concerns is that any money you give to nonprofits be used for the best purpose.
After some of the carnage they’ve seen on local streets lately, Warrior readers Don and Chris said all they want for Christmas are a few well-placed countdown signals that have been tested across the country and are in use in some cities in Asia.
Based on how the late Marjorie Barrick’s wishes to keep the Barrick Lecture Series going strong after her death and how the lectures have been allowed to languish, I’m not sure I’d give the UNLV Foundation millions. Presuming I had millions.
It’s beginning to look a lot like collision season. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says 20 percent of all collisions take place in shopping center parking lots during the holiday season.
“Nevada Week in Review” is not dead, but it has been on life support since July. That’s longer than expected when it was announced the Vegas PBS show was taking a “summer hiatus.”
There are all kinds of ways to be safer and last week has proved to us all that we have to do something to get back to paying closer attention to what we’re doing when on the streets.
When wealthy Las Vegas attorney Robert Eglet presented an education seminar to more than 200 attorneys and judges and put up a slide showing mug shots of Nevada Supreme Court Chief Justice James Hardesty and mobster Al Capone side by side, some laughed. Others didn’t.
Be grateful we don’t live in Fairbanks, Alaska. Besides the obvious advantage of living in sunny Southern Nevada’s mild winter climate, we don’t have to use our headlights as much in the winter months.
Ann McGee, the founder of Miracle Flights for Kids in 1985, has departed with an annual retirement of $344,000, or 75 percent of her most recent salary of $430,000.
One of the hardest things you’ll ever have to do is take the keys away from the family patriarch. When it’s time for that to happen, it’s bound to provoke arguments, heartaches and headaches for all parties involved. But it’s also a necessary step in the life cycle.
Las Vegan Mark Brown is winding down a lucrative consulting business to become national CEO of Miracle Flights for Kids, a nonprofit founded by Ann McGee 30 years ago, which has become mired in controversy.
It’s a danger we’re all too familiar with, not only on Southern Nevada streets, but on roads nationwide: the red-light runner.