Archive for July, 2012
Sunday, July 29th, 2012
For centuries, a few hundred wealthy individuals, families and corporations have had de facto control over what we consume as “news” — simply because they could afford to buy big printing presses, and ink by the barrel. Despite early fears in the newspaper industry, neither radio nor television ever broke this monopoly. You’d quickly realize […]
Full Article Categories: Economics, Free Speech, Literacy, Locavore local food, Media
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
Making national news, another heavily tax-subsidized alternative energy operation — the Amonix solar manufacturing plant in North Las Vegas — went belly-up last week, closing its 214,000-square-foot facility a year after it opened. A designer and manufacturer of concentrated photovoltaic solar power systems, Amonix received $6 million in federal tax credits for the North Las […]
Full Article Categories: 2012 Election, About Town, Energy, Media, Science
Sunday, July 22nd, 2012
The Charleston Antique Mall, at Charleston Boulevard and Interstate 15, closed April 30. It was not voluntary. The state Department of Transportation deployed its powers of eminent domain to seize and destroy the building — originally the local 7-Up bottling plant, then for a time the “Red Rooster” antique mall — to make room for […]
Full Article Categories: "Redevelopment", About Town, Private Property
Friday, July 20th, 2012
Diane Keaton had enough of a hit with the 1987 romantic comedy “Baby Boom” to generate a short-lived TV spinoff. A high-powered New York management consultant, Keaton’s character inherits a legacy from a distant British cousin — but it’s not money, it’s a baby girl. After some amusing attempts to fit a baby into her […]
Full Article Categories: 2012 Election
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
How are we doing, safeguarding those “unalienable Rights” with which we are “endowed by our Creator” — in support of which 56 patriots solemnly pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred Honor, 236 years ago? We remain free by many measures. Americans can still pretty much live where we want, work where we want, […]
Full Article Categories: 2012 Election, 2nd Amendment, Big Brother, Drug War, Due Process, Free Speech, Groundhog Day, Immigration, Law Enforcement, Literacy, Medicine, Middle East, Nevada, Taxation, Transportation
Sunday, July 1st, 2012
In twin op-eds in the Las Vegas Review-Journal of June 22, Patricia Vazquez, a professor of English at the College of Southern Nevada, and Fatma Marouf, co-director of the Immigration Clinic at UNLV’s Boyd School of Law, argued that illegal immigrants should no longer be referred to as “illegal immigrants.” “Our country has a principle […]
Full Article Categories: Big Brother, Due Process, History, Immigration, Law Enforcement