In support of Roberts for commissioner
McCain's strategy is dishonest
One of the marvels of the U.S in attracting immigrants has been the nation's participatory democracy.
No matter who is elected president on Tuesday, Barack Obama or John McCain, he should seriously consider retaining Defense Secretary Robert Gates as a frontline member of his Cabinet.
As a student, I always dreaded any type of math class, but history was another story.
Back in the "old days," the powers not explicitly delegated to the federal government were reserved to the states. And the people of the state of Nevada, when adopting our Constitution in 1864, decided that someone should live here for at least six months to get to know the issues and the candidates before being allowed to vote in our elections. Quite reasonable. But the U.S. Supreme Court nullified this provision in 1972.
Not interested in funding a train Enough already! Every day you run a wonderful article or letter about our great train.
Am I a true Nevadan? OK, I've got it Ms. Ayres. I am not a true Nevadan if I don't want to pay extra taxes for a project that probably won't get built (the V&T), run by people who don't manage very well, to support a private business (the railroad operator). Uh-huh.
One message has become clear as we've watched sales tax revenues decline steadily " Carson City needs to identify and exploit every attraction that can draw overnight visitors.
If Nevada, which was never considered to be a spendthrift on government programs anyhow, is already cutting deeper than any other state, and if some agency heads are warning they're nearing the point where no more cutting is possible, where else is there to turn?
The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent until proved guilty in court:
Can you spare some time?
Talk about your good news/bad news scenarios.
As of today you can call me a Colin Powell Democrat because, like the former Secretary of State (whom I greatly admire), I have decided to vote for Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president. After much soul-searching, I've concluded that Obama can provide the new leadership we want and need in order to put America on a different, and more hopeful, course to the future.
For Bodie it's clear to the dullest mind that Kearney's peremptory order is being obeyed and that the Chinese recognize the fact that they must go. The following are a list of distinguished departures from Bodie Ð Ah Lou, Ah Fat, Wong Heel, Ah Lung, Ah Foy. An extra has been provided for the Celestials that they may not be forced into traveling association with outside barbarians.
With Halloween just days away, our thoughts turn to scary things and places. Like your own kitchen. According to a study by British Esure Home Insurance, 10 percent of the population of the UK had accidents in the kitchen while trying to copy a celebrity chef.
If you go on the Ghost Walk on Saturday, it is best to remember that it is all in fun.
Pick the intelligent one At the risk of parroting others, I would like to say that we need to elect an INTELLIGENT president. If you examine their records, there is only one logical choice.
In politics, there's significant value in the ability to speak on particular issues with moral authority. There's also a well-deserved penalty for being a hypocrite. Case in point: McCain-Palin calling Barack Obama a socialist.
Carson City The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent until proved guilty in court:
Sheriff's Log Carson City The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent until proved guilty in court:
No matter how charities and community organizations view the current economic downturn, it's not a pretty sight. For one thing, donations are harder to come by. For another, there are more people to help.
We just got back from a trip to Nepal and Tibet. What a time to be out of the country " we go away for a month and the world financial system collapses.
Voting in favor of V&T tax
For too long Washington politicians have failed to address our health care and financial security worries. Unfortunately, a great majority of Americans are but one major illness away from financial disaster. We all grew up believing that hard work would lead to lifetime financial security or, as we called it, the American Dream. Unfortunately, recent Wall Street events have awakened all of us with the news that U.S. retirees have seen their nest egg reduced by approximately $2.7 trillion.
Carson City The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent until proved guilty in court:
Sheriff's Log Carson City The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent until proved guilty in court:
In the presidential race, those voters who are still undecided have been " like the rest of us " subjected to structured forums, attack ads, and stump speeches by the candidates and campaign leaders. One policy goal of both presidential candidates is to "clean up the mess in Washington." Each candidate sees himself as a better agent of change than his opponent. Senator McCain touts his record as a maverick; Senator Obama argues that McCain will only provide four more years of the failed Bush administration.
BACamphitheater plan doesn't fit on west side
The state's economy is now officially to the point where we will see if the dire warnings about the damages from budget cuts are rhetoric or reality.
Sheriff's Log Lyon County The following are some of the calls to which deputies responded Thursday:
Voting for the V&T makes sense
Not long ago I wrote a column about the ominous and increasingly violent links between illegal immigration and large-scale drug trafficking in Northern Nevada and throughout the nation. My theory was validated last Tuesday by career law enforcement officer Larry Martines, a vice president of the International Police Association and former homeland security adviser to Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons.
by Sue Ballew 130 Years Ago
If you go to Sean McMurry's talk on Oct. 28, you might come away with the idea that a Depression wouldn't be as bad as it sounds.
Sheriff's Log Carson City The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent until proved guilty in court:
Muth forgot to blame the Founding Fathers, too
Kathy Tatro of Coldwell Banker Best Sellers has been named Realtor of the Month for September.
Every seven years since A.D. 301, priests have trekked to the ancient Cathedral of Etchmiadzin in Armenia to retrieve freshly brewed muron - a sweet-scented holy oil stirred with what is said to be the tip of the lance driven through Jesus' side - and carry it back to their respective dioceses.
Wrong tax on the wrong people I strongly question the wisdom of asking Carson City residents to support CC2 " the Public Safety Ballot issue " which we vote on in the upcoming election.
PHILADELPHIA - The shortage of Roman Catholic clergy isn't just being felt in church.
Northern Nevada Development Authority recently announced it had named Daniel Campos as the Member Service Director for the authority.
Carson City The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent until proved guilty in court:
We all know how important manufacturing is to the Capital Region (Carson, Douglas, Lyon and Storey counties). Manufacturing is primary job creation, community investment, advancement of technology, and the overall "multiplier effect."
Sheriff's Log Carson City The following are some of the calls to which deputies responded Monday:
As the sun sets upon the Neo-Con Empire leaving every single U.S. taxpayer saddled with a multi-generational national debt of unimaginable proportions as a direct result of Bush Administration domestic and foreign policies, how will U.S. taxpayers collectively raise the hard cash needed to retire the national debt? Bush and Cheney will have sailed off into the sunset leaving all of us behind in their wake holding a very large bag full of bonded indebtedness.
A gun owner in favor of McCain What, Sen. Barack H. Obama supports the second amendment, huh?
ainst the steady march of negative economic news, there are actually some reasons for optimism in the capital city. None of that is to diminish the severity of this situation, where the most recent headlines have focused on sales tax and gaming revenues that continue to fall and, like everywhere else, the shrinking retirement funds of residents.
Want change? Vote for Republicans We've heard a lot in the last four weeks about the economic crisis we're in. Here are some basic facts:
The Carson City mayor and supervisors, with the enlightened exception of Supervisor Williamson, are considering voting to grant $10 million to the V&T Railway by raising the sales tax on Carson City residents by 1/8 percent, a 1.78 percent increase over the present sales tax. We are told that the money will be a good investment because the railroad will give 5 percent of its revenues to Carson City for 99 years. Of course, if the railroad doesn't succeed, 5 percent of nothing is nothing.
The Public Safety Initiative, CC2, was placed on the General Election ballot to allow voters the decision to determine appropriate levels of public safety services in Carson City. Throughout the past 10 years, our national, state, and community economies have both prospered and suffered. During the same period, paid and volunteer public consultants, along with chief law enforcement and fire officials have attested that service levels are falling below new and changing demands. Today, many of our public safety services are routinely supported by assistance from our neighboring agencies and counties.
It is decision time in Carson City. We are being asked to possibly vote ourselves right out of our homes and businesses. We are being asked to raise our taxes at a time when many of us can least afford additional expenses. Carson City's population is forecast to decrease for the next few years and both the sheriff and the fire chief want us to possibly overextend ourselves, perhaps right out of our homes and businesses.
To begin, let me state that I fully understand, with the economic challenges we are all facing, what a difficult time this is to ask, you, the voters, to implement a tax.
by Sue Ballew 130 Years Ago
There's a good chance you looked at me in wonderment on Wednesday morning and didn't even realize it.
Those Yucca funds are far from factual I take a real issue with Mr. Muth's lack of credibility and hopefully you will publish this letter in response.
I think Jay Leno summed up the essence of the Wall Street bailout best when he remarked, "Congress keeps saying that not only are taxpayers going to get back the $700 billion, oh, they're going to make money on the deal, too. Yeah, yeah. See, now you know where the 'con' in congressman comes from."
Name: Shannon Seymour Her position: She co-owns the business with her husband, Winston.
Lone Mountain Veterinary Hospital of Carson City has again received accreditation following a comprehensive evaluation by the American Animal Hospital Association. The evaluation includes a quality assessment review of the hospital's facility, medical equipment, practice methods and pet health care management.
The news of the day has become too predictable: retirement funds lost; job anxieties worsening; people having a difficult time making ends meet.
Humans are a cause of global warming
You may not know it, and who would blame you for not knowing, given the fact that Latvia has rarely made an appearance on the world's stage, but Latvians elected a woman president in 1999, and she served two four-year terms.
By Dave Frank Nevada Appeal Staff Writer
Business licenses issued in Carson City as of Oct. 3 Absolute Hair, 1507 N. Carson Street, new beauty shop, Angelica J. Leisle, owner.
As a physician with training in two specialties and one subspecialty, I have the utmost respect for the power of science. But lately, I have been pondering the limitations of our heavy reliance on science and technology to enhance our lives. Trust me, I am not anti-technology; I, for one, rely on numerous gadgets to get through my day, and can hardly remember what we did 20 years ago when we didn't have instant access to information.
Gov. Jim Gibbons wants Nevada to make a deal with Bank of America to help reduce the number of foreclosures in the state.
When I read Dylan Rader's opinion piece in the Sept. 23 edition about the shooting of his dog, it hit close to home " but in the opposite way.
V&T funding formula could be enforced
At the height of the Cold War, I spent an academic year at the U.S. Navy War College in Newport, R.I., where we worried about "huge swimming bears" " the ships of the rapidly expanding Soviet Navy. And now, 30 years later, Russian warships are headed to the Caribbean, within striking distance of our southern coast. What's going on?
Frank Hublou knows what a plane crash looks like. In fact, as a Vietnam-era Air Force pilot, he's had some close calls landing jets with mechanical problems.
Don't minimize the dangers of nuclear waste
Joe Strolin " soon-to-be-ex-executive director Bob Loux's right-hand man over at the Nuclear Waste Project Office (NWPO) " wrote the following in a letter to the Nevada Appeal published last June 13:
Some of you may remember in my last article, I went into detail about our current credit crisis. Describing subprime loans, tranches, derivatives and other exotic synthetic financial products felt more like writing fiction than fact. But it wasn't. It was all too true and now all these "weapons of mass financial destruction" are wreaking serious havoc on the global economy. Since we now understand the root cause of the problem, let's take this opportunity to look at the proposed solution.
Our children are the leaders of tomorrow and I believe they are our most important assets.
Government vehicles should be fueled with cheapest gas
Digital Delirium, a Northern Nevada firm known for its search engine optimization and content management systems, launched its own Web site, www.digital-delirium.net, that both explains its Internet marketing and highlights the firm's local Web designs.
The economy started to slump during the middle of work on the Silver Dollar Casino's expansion, but Vice President Troy Wandler knew the casino needed to pull in more customers.
