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• Whatever you do, DON’T dig here! No, I’m serious! Hey, stop!

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  DOE to The Future: Don't mess with this stuff! Regardless of your stance on entombing nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain — an increasingly dim prospect — there’s an exhaustive if somewhat credulous interview over at BLDGBLOG with a top Department of Energy wonk who waxes scientific on the art of storing' [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:14pm EST
  by Andrew Kiraly

• Singing for shelter

  David Rath in "Truly Dually." “Truly Dually,” a musical about homeless veterans, played Sunday to a packed house at the West Las Vegas Library. The play was written by first time playwright and veteran social worker Michael Ullman. The author’s training definitely surfaced in the script. Only a social worker would write a [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:40pm EST
  by Amy Kingsley

• Will Kabins’ plea deal crack open the Medical Mafia?

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  Lawyers for Las Vegas surgeon Dr. Mark Kabins have been quietly spreading Dr. Mark Kabins the word that Kabins is not going to become a government witness and testify against all the other doctors and lawyers suspected of participating in the allegedly massive Medical Mafia scheme. Kabins has agreed to enter [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:04am EST
  by George Knapp

• The Twitter feed of Sen. John Ensign

  SenatorEnsign2 Sorry, everyone. I didn’t mean to “retweet” that Holly Madison post. I was licking her profile picture and accidentally clicked the mouse. * SenatorEnsign2 HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYNE QUICK QUESTION– DOES THE RIM SALT FRM FOUR CHILI’S EL PRESIDENTE MARGARITTAS COUNT AS DINNER??/? * SenatorEnsign2 We were nice enough to give blacks “Good Times” [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:11pm EST
  by Andrew Kiraly

• Stay The Course, Harry

  126852 With health care reform set for a battle on the Senate floor, a few organizations are making sure their voices are heard before the final vote is cast. On Nov. 19 at the West Charleston Boulevard Planned Parenthood offices, four women sat in an office reading over scripts. Their goal: [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:29pm EST
  by Aziz Bawany

• Let them eat … art?

  Art might feed the soul, but it’s also surprisingly good at filling empty bellies — which explains why the folks at Three Square will invade the Las Vegas Arts District tonight. Lunch Trays for Home Days, a Three Square fund-raiser to help feed the 143,000 local school children at risk of [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:00pm EST
  by Jason Whited

• Building Nevada one pauper at a time

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  Nevadans are hurting as never before, thanks in large part to a state tax structure built on wishes and dreams Poor and middle class Nevadans pay more than five times the amount of state and local taxes as do the state’s top earners, say analysts with the D.C.-based Institute on Taxation [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:34am EST
  by Jason Whited

• The Adventures of EditorCop the Superbailiff and LogicMan

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  Wait a sec. I thought judges were supposed to be all reasonable and logically consistent and, you know, judgey and stuff. That’s why this little nugget low in today’s Review-Journal story about EditorCop the Superbailiff who yesterday illegally detained a herd of reporters to let Michael Jackson’s former physician Dr. [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:25pm EST
  by Andrew Kiraly

• We are all Wayne Newton

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  Beware when looking into the Wayner, for the Wayner also looks into you. Reader Unhappy Las Vegan writes in response to our, shall we say, highly critical Wayne Newton review: Scathing, derogatory review on Mr. Las Vegas, Wayne Newton, Mr. McKee. You surely are an acid tongued little man – however, Wayne [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:12am EST
  by Andrew Kiraly

• Hope for Chronic Fatigue sufferers; concern about the blood supply

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  The journal Science published a report Oct. 8 that may bring hope to sufferers of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome — but that also has implications for the blood supply. - The article by researchers from Reno’s nonprofit Whittemore Peterson Institute, the National Cancer Institute and the Cleveland Clinic, is titled “Detection of an [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 4:52pm EST
  by Jack Johnson

• Nevada cops arrest record numbers of us for pot possession

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  Say what you want about his cause, but Dave Schwartz knows how to rock the press conference. As Nevada manager for the Marijuana Policy Project, the nation’s largest such organization dedicated to the reform of cannabis laws, Schwartz has repeatedly used the power of the “presser” to inject new sanity into [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:54pm EST
  by Jason Whited

• The Twitter feed of Sen. John Ensign

  SenatorEnsign2 Finished Palin’s book. Spoiler: She confirms the rumor she wears high heels to distract photographers from her freakish T. Rex claw hands. SenatorEnsign2 Tip: With the help of TiVo and your DVR, you can turn that 30-second Victoria’s Secret TV ad into an hour-long “sinfomercial.” SenatorEnsign2 Ever ask yourself why people [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:31am EST
  by Andrew Kiraly

• Heavenly host: Vatican holds international extraterrestrial life conference

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  Emperor Palpatine, still playing dumb about life in other galaxies, far, far away This week, the hilariously hedgy Vatican makes public its own pontification regarding the existence of extraterrestrial life. ”The questions of life’s origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in the universe are very suitable and deserve serious consideration” for their ”many [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 3:01pm EST
  by Dave Surratt

• A ray of sunlight

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  Nevada’s burgeoning green economy needs a green workforce. People to install solar panels, conduct energy audits and build power lines. And there just happen to be a lot of unemployed people looking for that kind of work. Enter Solar Forces. The non-profit trade association is offering two 20-hour training courses this fall to [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:03am EST
  by Amy Kingsley

• Caught in the middle

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  Rep. Dina Titus received a warm welcome when she returned to Las Vegas on Sunday – hot on the heels of her vote to support health care reform. According to this piece in Slate, her supporters greeted her at the airport with homemade “Thank You” signs. Titus is one of 20 [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 3:40pm EST
  by Amy Kingsley

• Contented winter

  Now can we say it? YUCCA MOUNTAIN DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD DEAD. [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 3:01pm EST
  by Andrew Kiraly

• Boozers, bards and beats: notes from First Friday, Nov. 6 edition

  Jesse Saunders, ca. 1984 ... zombies!!! The weather was perfect for First Friday, as it gets during this awesome and all-too-brief subseason between hot lava from above and the dry, whipping ice gales that dessicate your face to the point where, when you finally just give up and grin at the cold, your parched and stretched [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:25pm EST
  by Dave Surratt

• The real secret between Batman and Robin?

  Possibly Marvel's first Male on Male kiss. So Superman wears muscle-clinging spandex, Batman covers his face with a dark mask and Wonder Woman runs around in a one piece swimsuit. To say sexuality factors into the comic book industry is an understatement. But despite years of progress, the gays still have [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:28pm EST
  by Aziz Bawany

• Smells like teen comics: Discussing Buffy, high school allegories and self-publishing with Utopian creator Pj Perez

  Is Pj Perez a Renaissance man or just a workaholic? The high quality of his latest effort, the debut issue of The Utopian, a full-color comic book originally serialized online and now available for purchase at better comics shops, suggests the former. Perez has a long history in indie publishing [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:42pm EST
  by Andrew Kiraly

• Help needed for homeless helpers

  Project Homeless Connect, the annual gathering of services for the homeless, is in desperate need of help. Last year, the event offered services such as legal aid, medical checkups and haircuts to approximately 3,400 people. This year, they expect to see between 4,000 and 4,500, according to Larry Lovelett, spokesman [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:42pm EST
  by Amy Kingsley

• Drunk event tonight

  a panel from Ivan Brunetti's comic in Drunk Whoops! An article in this week’s paper includes the wrong information for the book signing party and art opening for Drunk: A Comic About Bar Stories. The event is happening tonight at Frankie’s Tiki Room, which is on Charleston Boulevard near UMC. You [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:55pm EST
  by Amy Kingsley

• The power of nonviolence

  Amos Sawyer, former president of Liberia Here in the United States, we haven’t heard much about the power of nonviolent resistance, at least not since various social movements here used it to such great effect in the 1960s and 1970s. All that changes tonight when UNLV welcomes former Liberian president Amos Sawyer, [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:15am EST
  by Jason Whited

• Screeching to the choir: As the U.K. plans a crackdown on music piracy, new poll results show the biggest music-stealers are also the biggest music buyers

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  ''Get your patchouli-stinking, music-loving, only-reason-my-dying-business-still-clings-to-life ass out of my store!'' Last Sunday, British public policy think-tank Demos announced its findings that those who admit to illegally downloading copyrighted music also happen to pay for a lot more of it than those who say they never download illegally. The poll, conducted by [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:45pm EST
  by Dave Surratt

• Here’s my teacher impersonation: Whine whine whine!

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  Reader Monika writes in response to Chip Mosher’s recent column: I do not understand why you teachers all act like you have no power at all. You are the ones educating the future of America and you all seem to be spineless wimps, who are afraid of the administration and are [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:55am EST
  by Andrew Kiraly

• ABC’s Nightline is on Ensign’s case

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  Maybe you saw the blog item earlier this week about Sen. John Ensign’s former friend and employee Doug Hampton and his decisions to speak on camera to a network news crew. From what I was told, about the three-hour interview, Hampton really laid into Ensign and essentially accused the senator [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:16pm EST
  by George Knapp

• Without Steve Wynn, we’d all die!

  Reader Charlie writes in response to our recent editorial about Steve Wynn’s recent turn as right-wing mouthpiece: This editorial completely missed the point of Wynn’s position, expressed clearly on Fox News Sunday. He merely stated that the government (read Federal) is not a creator of jobs. The government can take money [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 4:22pm EST
  by Andrew Kiraly

• Falling back — into a properly fastened safety harness

  Nevada OSHA has a lot of things to worry about. So who knows how much attention they’re paying to recent research showing the switch to Daylight Saving Time corresponds to a spike in the number of workplace accidents. Sunday’s time change — which gives workers an extra hour of sleep [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 2:03pm EST
  by Amy Kingsley

• Sen. Ensign can’t take joke, censors satirical parody Twitter feed

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  Well, my days of impersonating that randy silver-haired fox Sen. Ensign via Twitter are numbered — at least using the SenatorEnsign moniker. I just received this note from Twitter officials: Hi, We’ve received a complaint from a representative of Senator Ensign. It has come to our attention that your Twitter account: http://twitter.com/SenEnsign is in [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 6:51pm EST
  by Andrew Kiraly

• Doug Hampton to tell all on major network news program

  Former congressional aide Doug Hampton started a political wildfire earlier this year when he went public with a story about an affair between Hampton’s wife Cynthia and his boss Sen. John Ensign. Hampton tried to give the story to Fox News, but the fair and balanced network showed little interest [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 6:39pm EST
  by George Knapp

• Halloween Highlights: Three cool things you likely missed last Saturday, thanks to classical physics

  "I don't make the laws, I just discover them blah blah..." The scariest part of Halloween night? Too many simultaneous events. “Boo!” gurgled a headless Sir Isaac Newton from atop a steed of pure algebra. “Can’t be in two places at once! Painful sacrifices are yours! Hahahaha!” Jackass. So everybody missed something.' [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 4:04pm EST
  by Dave Surratt