State of the Valley

Minority report

Dave Berns | Thu, Aug 21, 2008 (midnight)

The e-mail sat in my in-box, an angry bullet fired by a frustrated white man. Minutes before, he’d heard San Diego Union-Tribune columnist Ruben Navarette refer to white Americans as “lazy.”

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Be like Bobby

Whether Robert Kennedy would have made a good president is unknowable. All that is certain is that during his campaign he convinced millions of Americans that he was a good man, perhaps a great man.

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There’s wind in them thar hills

Dave Berns | Thu, Jul 24, 2008 (midnight)

The green crowd is at it again, this time pushing for wind farms throughout much of the West and Great Plains. TV commercials are appearing nationally making the case, saying that a sea of wind towers could free us from our oil dependency, with a boost from cars fueled by natural gas.

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Lead Photo The Gibbons follies

Dave Berns | Thu, Jul 17, 2008 (midnight)

It’s ridiculous, just plain ridiculous to assume that Gov. Jim Gibbons used any political influence to receive a special designation that lowered his annual property tax liability from about $5,000 to $15 on 40 acres of sagebrush in rural Elko County.

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Read between the party lines

Dave Berns | Thu, Jul 10, 2008 (midnight)

We’re reeling from a series of jolts: $4.50-a-gallon gasoline, neighborhoods shaken by empty homes, rapidly rising food prices, growing unemployment and a war in its sixth year. We’re seeking solace, a sense that things will be okay, but there’s no consensus on solutions. It’s the American way. Greater wisdom can come from the partisan divide that passes for enlightened debate in Carson City and Washington, D.C. But it feels as though we’re lacking enlightenment and debate

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Lead Photo United we stand?

Dave Berns | Thu, Jun 26, 2008 (midnight)

The young couple stands in their Summerlin driveway, an impromptu yard sale illustrating their plight. They need cash. Their house, once the symbol of a personal dream, is now a burden.

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Lead Photo Oil’s not well

Dave Berns | Thu, Jun 12, 2008 (midnight)

Sales are down. Tips are off. Work is disappearing. The national unemployment rate climbed to 5.5 percent from 5 percent in May, the largest jump in 22 years, with the loss of 49,000 jobs. Longtime Nevadans/immigrants; men/women; young/old—it doesn’t matter. Many sense something is wrong.

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Show them the money

Dave Berns | Thu, May 29, 2008 (12:01 a.m.)

There’s always the Duke with his sing-song voice, the miles of attitude that stretched from mesa to mesa and that athletic swagger. Surrounded by marauding Indians or searching for his kidnapped niece, the Duke remained the Western idyll of the self-reliant settler. John Wayne didn’t need no stinkin’ help.

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A&E

Tao Group to open Marquee sister club in Australia
Hip hotel the Star will house nightlife group’s first overseas venture.
Conventional Strip wisdom aside, the Smith Center books Broadway—and it worked
And according to ticket sales, it’s a great idea.
Hard-rock home sweet home: Motley Crue’s Joint residency starts with a bang
Veteran quartet shakes off some opening-night snags to get its “Sin City” residency rolling.

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