One thing that unites the environmental lobby with those who oppose them is that by far the best way to help deal with the fast approaching Energy crisis in the West is to concentrate of conservation and energy efficiency. There are two ways to reduce the cost of energy - reduce the price or use […]

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New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.”
According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,” in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim.
Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw large marijuana […]

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Two years ago, Atlantic City, NJ lost its only Supermarket. IGA closed its doors in April 2006 forcing residents and tourists to shop at small markets or outside of the ocean resort.
Since the closing, attempts have been made to convince others to replace IGA, but no new supermarket has yet to open.
In late December […]

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A construction worker in the movie industry killed himself at one of Mel Gibson’s homes in the Agoura Hills, near Malibu.
48-year-old, Michael John Van Dyke, hanged himself on one of the structures under construction on Gibson’s property.
His body was discovered early yesterday morning by the job site foreman. According to TMZ, Mel’s rep says the […]

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Wayne Allyn Root addressing the crowd at the Republican Jewish
Coalition annual event at Palm Beach Florida
“You know what the difference is between Las Vegas and Washington D.C.?
In Vegas the drunks gamble with their own money!”
–Wayne Allyn Root, Libertarian candidate for President
We heard Wayne Allyn Root during his recent appearance on the The Glenn Beck Program […]

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A legal opinion issued Thursday in Connecticut may allow lawmakers to extend a state smoking ban to the American-Indian casinos, which claim that smoking restrictions would be a threat to tribal sovereignty.
Lawmakers in Pennsylvania have debated this week to make casinos completely smoke-free or limit smoking to 25 percent of the gaming floor which is […]

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A 6.0 Earthquake Hit near Wells, Nevada This Morning
Another of 9.2 in Alaska Occurred in 1964
Quake Could Have been “Catastrophic” if it Had hit Elsewhere
If 7.2 Earthquake had hit Oakland, CA–It would have “liquified” the City
Nevada One of the States Known for Large Quakes

State Lucky Quake hit in Largely Unpopulated Area
According […]

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The Body of Missing Brianna Dennison was Found
Her DNA has been tied to a Serial Rapist-Murderer in Reno
Police are looking for the Killer
Reno Area Residents and Students are Nervous 

Nightmare in Reno: Missing Brianna Denison found dead, DNA tied to local Serial Rapist
The news was what any parent would never want to hear, that their lovely […]

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(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday […]

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The discussion of the politics of race typically starts and ends with the question: “Are whites ready to elect a black man as president?” The question that Barack Obama’s strategists should be asking is, “Are Hispanics willing to vote for a black man for president?”
Many pundits assumed that when Hillary Clinton played “the race card,” […]

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ABOUT THE PRIMARIES/CAUCUSES:
—If Romney ends up losing the election, as a consolation prize how about turning over our welfare system to the Mormons? They have one for their own members that functions quite well. Since ours performs like a blind elephant playing hockey, what have we got to lose?
—Hillary now seems to be carrying the […]

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Boston, MA.
January 18, 2008
 
Although Irish Setters have been sleeping around the family manse for years, it is apparent that Mitt Romney has failed to absorb and grasp the subtle messages and extensions of the adage “let sleeping dogs lie.”  
That may be changing.
Romney’s flare-up yesterday (1/17/2007) with the Associated Press’ Glen Johnson at a press […]

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By RB Scott
Boston, MA.
January 13, 2007
 
A respected national newspaper recently reported that Presidential candidate W. Mitt Romney, “reeling from defeats in New Hampshire and Iowa,” decided to suspend advertising in South Carolina and Florida, a decision that “laid bare the dire condition of his run for the White House…”
 
Leads of newspaper stories are supposed to be […]

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BY RB SCOTT
Boston, Massachusetts
January 12, 2008
EDITOR’S NOTE: A version of this column appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune January 11; another version was scheduled to run in The Detroit Free Press January 12th.

Several months ago, W. Mitt Romney said presciently that he had only himself to fear.
Despite his millions, the picture-perfect family that really is everything it […]

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When Art Bell, long time host of the “Coast to Coast” radio show which attracts up to ten million listeners a night, announced his retirement on his July 1, 2007 show, he knew that his listeners had heard this before. So he emphasized, “This time it’s for real though. It’s for real.”
But now, six months […]

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Thompson Campaign Announces Group to Lead Nevada Election Bid
Group includes State Senators, party activists, businessmen
Nevada Latest State Thompson Campaign Has Solidified Organization 
The Fred Thompson Campaign added another group of political veterans to aid the Tennessee Senator’s quest for the presidency.
Included on the Thompson Nevada Leadership Team are several State Senators, party activists and businessmen.
Today the […]

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(Photo courtesy of wazzywooze at Flickr)
It never ceases to amaze me how a lack of information security translates into official statements that no one is aware of any identity theft that has occurred.
With as many people, we know have been compromised, and accounting for episodes like the one below where we probably aren’t sure, who […]

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Clad in her “asbestos pantsuit” at yesterday’s Dem debate in Las Vegas, Sen. Hillary Clinton (NY) showed the media – who heaped scorn on her for coming down with the vapors over being engaged and attacked by her opponents – that she could dish it out and take it. What she didn’t show the voters […]

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 Dealer Planned to Tape and Televise Bust for $$$
So OJ did get set up after all.
Information released from the FBI report on the Las Vegas bust involving OJ trying to retrieve stolen memorabilia revealed that the FBI was aware of the former NFL player’s lans three weeks prior to their occurring.
How did they know? Keep […]

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Nonconformists and pyromaniacs from all over flocked to Reno, Nevada this Labor Day weekend to take part in the traditional Burning Man counterculture arts festival in desert. Attendance on Saturday was up about 21 percent from last year’s peak crowd. About 47,097 people showed up to watch artistic expressions burn in the usually remote area […]

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Today on The Lunch, Rob flies solo and serves up tasty morsels from a brothel in Nevada, Ground Zero in New York, vigilantes on the southern border, Hillary observers on Mars, and much more. For the latest election news in just a few minutes’ time, come by for lunch with us.
Watch now!

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This week, the New Frontier Hotel and Casino was opened to the public for the first time in over a week for spectators to roam through and bid on items that are up for sale. When they browsed around in the hotel, however, they found that there was not much left. Even the numbers on […]

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Michael and Iana Straw, a couple from Reno, Nevada, are facing charges of neglect after obsessive online gaming kept them from properly taking care of their two children., a boy age 22 month and a girl age 11 months. The children were found severely malnourished and in need of medical attention when they were found […]

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About 2.5 million Americans die each year. However, a recent study has shown that people living in Nevada have a higher rate of suicide, are more likely to die young, of substance abuse, and specific chronic illnesses than the national average according to the Las Vegas Sun. Nevada is said to have the 12th highest […]

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This week marks the one year anniversary of Darren Mack’s murder of his estranged wife and shooting of a Nevada judge. The event is being recounted in several articles, including One Year Anniversary Haunts Reno (KREN, 6/12/07) and the more detailed Violence reverberates through lives (Reno Gazette-Journal, 6/10/07).
I’ve written about Mack on numerous occasions, including “Do […]

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AB193: Governor approves a bill that re-evaluates people after they slip out of insanity
By Charles Eggleston
Sounds confusing? Well confusing as it may sound, Governor Jim Gibbons just signed a bill that could offer treatment for the “no longer mentally ill”. The reason he did so is because there have been cases of convicted felons who […]

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Marked card ring broken up in Las Vegas
By Charles Eggleston
Last week federal prosecutors finally closed a case on the nation wide card ring known as the “Tran Organization”. This group is supposedly being charged with counts of money laundering, racketeering, and with several counts of conspiracy.
Investigations against the Tran Organization lasted for over 44 months […]

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Reno announces the launch of this year’s annual Artown on July 1. This Artown, unlike the others, not only showcases the endeavors of small timers striving to get their work noticed, but also consists of major artists and has a variety of big-time singers like Joan Osborne, Hell’s Kitchen, and the Indigo Girls.
Some of the […]

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Tourism in Las Vegas has sunk to a new low and to such a low one can only wonder “how low can you go”!
Not as far as Tampa Red’s Hokum Jug Band does musically but much lower socially with hundreds of Glitter Gulch tourists taking advantage of the law that while protecting the disabled shields […]

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Catholic World News Blog gives a “headup” about certain Catholic bishops holding a fundraiser in Las Vegas.
Well, yes, fundraisers like Medical meetings are more convenient to hold in big hotels which have the infrastructure to do so. However, it is unclear if the bishops stayed in the hotels or stayed in the local Hotel 6 […]

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