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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The State legislature of Nevada wants to be sure your home’s Feng Shui is smooth. New Mexico’s officials want to be sure that your “space” is well arranged. They are all about home decor. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if they have the Home Improvement channel constantly playing in all state offices so that […]

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Of all the childish tantrums and manufactured outrage that have come from the Democrats, this has surely got to be near the top. First it was John Edwards, then the Nevada State Democratic Party pulled out completely from the debate they themselves set up to be hosted by Fox News. The far left […]

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At least if you watch the Fox News Channel. John Edwards will simply not tolerate any group that will not tow the liberal line.
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards won’t participate in a debate co-hosted by Fox News and the Nevada Democratic Party, his campaign said, as party officials tried to settle a dustup over […]

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About three weeks ago I blogged about Wiccan soldiers’ widows suing to get pentacles on their deceased husbands’ gravestones. I argued that, since the military already allows 38 different symbols, there is no harm in adding another one.
Another point I made, however, was that suing might have been overkill. The military was in the process […]

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The new identity theft protection and recovery service by Truston is live. The service is unique because it doesn’t require you to give up your personal information, which could be stored in a database, and used to commit identity theft if it falls into the wrong hands.
In case you’ve missed the weekly stories, databases are […]

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First gypsies impersonate Dr. Phil and now someone is selling tickets to the Oprah show that smell a little “phishy.”
Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan warned the public in a official statement:
In this case, e-mail recipients are asked to submit personal information and told they will receive tickets to The Oprah Winfrey Show after verification of […]

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I’ve had the opportunity to look at a lot of identity theft services, but until now - I’ve never run into one I considered “victim friendly.”
I’ve written off most of the services I’ve seen — either because they were financial services products (created by those who had compromised victims themselves) — or they were selling […]

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Democrats love to exploit fear and pain as a general rule and Jimmah Carter’s little boy in Nevada is no exception t that rule. Democrats also like to shift blame to others, and Jimmah’s ‘lil boy shines in that category, as well.

It seems a Jack Carter “campaign aide” tried to enlist the mother of an Iraqi war veteran killed in service to his country to the service of bashing the war and the military her son so proudly served.

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