A report titled “Dangerous by Design,” issued last week by the National Complete Streets Coalition, ranks Las Vegas the 13th most dangerous for pedestrians of 51 metropolitan areas in the U.S., but those numbers don’t consider the number of walking tourists.
If, God forbid, you come down with cancer, pray your case is handled in the same manner as Maria Shaffer’s.
Who doesn’t love driving a golf cart? Most of them are nimble and quick with a tight turning radius. The electric ones have a quiet takeoff, just like a Prius.
It is the leading reason people go to the doctor — and the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, reports it affects 100 million American adults, more than the total affected by heart disease, cancer and diabetes combined.
It’s been a long wait for a new interchange at U.S. Highway 95 and the 215 Beltway on the north side of town, and we’re going to have to wait longer.
Two years ago, Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary penned a Wall Street Journal piece, “How to Stop Hospitals from Killing Us,” which contained a paragraph that was at once sickening and a call to action.
Visitors will learn to walk and locals will have to make a paradigm shift, but no “traffic and parking nightmare” is envisioned for the MGM arena that’s now under construction in Las Vegas.
The Nevada Department of Transportation will close lanes in the Spaghetti Bowl overnight Saturday for a road striping project.
As she finished the hot dog and Baby Ruth bar she was eating inside the convenience store, the rotund young mother made breakfast for her two little ones.
The city of Las Vegas’ long-envisioned plan to turn Main and Commerce streets downtown into parallel one-way couplets is on track and once the project that is expected to cost at least $34 million is done, a new president will be in the White House, Resorts World Las Vegas will be open on the Strip and students entering high school next fall will be ready for their senior year.
The merger of Southwest and AirTran could bring more international — and maybe Mexico — flights to Las Vegas.
At the Horizon Drive overpass crossing above U.S. Highway 95, X marks the spot for a hidden treasure — a big diamond that will save motorists their time.
Civil rights, feminism, the anti-Vietnam War movement, gay rights, rights for the disabled. Given what’s happened in those areas during the six decades baby boomers have monopolized the nation’s cultural, political and economic landscape, it’s not surprising that many researchers characterize boomers, and that includes me, as positive social and political rabble-rousers.
