The beginning of a new year always brings change.
News Columns
Cohorts of Clark County Commissioner Larry Brown may vote to give him another job Tuesday. But they probably won’t.
Bought my new paper calendar, opting for an artistic look at birds from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and am starting to pack it with important dates. Friends’ birthdays. Homeowners association board meetings. Standing hair appointments that are sacrosanct.
The holidays are here, and with them come predictable traditions.
There are, however, many roads and lanes that will be inaccessible for valley residents and visitors soon. That would be thanks to New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas, which is a pretty big annual production. What’s important to remember: avoid the Strip in your car.
A daunting, even dismaying thought: All Clark County voters will be faced with selecting 54 countywide or statewide judgeships next year.
Two or three times a year since 1998, Philip Pro has received a James Bondish call, usually on short notice. Would he like to go overseas, often to countries many of us cannot spell or pronounce? If he can, he does, usually for about a week.
When you live in Las Vegas and think about health care, it’s often too easy at the end of the year to find something negative to focus on — a hepatitis outbreak caused by medical professionals not following basic precautions, a TB outbreak caused for the same reason.
I’m wondering why the advice given to 40 million Target customers who may have had their credit and debit cards hacked doesn’t include what I did Thursday night: Call and cancel my card and order a new one.
It simply wasn’t believable when Tim Poster told the Nevada Gaming Control Board he didn’t know it was illegal to place sports bets via the Internet.
Assemblywoman Lucy Flores decided to test her strengths and weaknesses before declaring herself a Democratic candidate in the 2014 lieutenant governor’s race. That’s smart on her part. Except she didn’t test the things that mattered to me.
The abrupt and mysterious closure of KE Medical Group — an action that left 16,000 patients in a lurch, many who’ve been unable to get prescriptions refilled, treatments completed, appointments made, records transferred — has become even more mysterious.
The basics are well known to Las Vegans. Actress Carole Lombard died in a plane crash on Mount Potosi southwest of Las Vegas on Jan. 16, 1942, coming back from a trip selling war bonds just weeks after war broke out in the Pacific.