Archive for April, 2009
« Previous EntriesA Nevada Lottery? The Line Forms in California
Thursday, April 30th, 2009a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/us/25nevada.html?partner=rssnytemc=rss”img src=”http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/04/25/us/25nevada.751.jpg” border=”0″ height=”75″ width=”75″ hspace=”4″ align=”left”/aLawmakers are considering legalizing a lottery in Nevada, to the chagrin of casinos and those worried about regressive taxes.
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Community Bancorp seeks to merge its Arizona and Nevada banks (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Community Bancorp, a $1.9 billion-asset bank holding company based in Las Vegas, has asked the Federal Reserve Board to approve its application to merge its Arizona and Nevada banks to improve efficiency and boost capital of the Nevada bank, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Edward Jamison said today.
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Nevada brothel woos Blagojevich for its own reality show (Daily Herald)
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Rod Blagojevich now has a second chance at being on reality TV. But instead of eating bugs in some tropical jungle, he’d be selecting prostitutes in the Nevada desert.
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Nevada Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening Va. Tech Alumni (Washington Post)
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009ROANOKE, April 28 — A Nevada man pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to sending threatening e-mails to two Virginia Tech students glorifying the 2007 shooting rampage.
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Nevada considers ‘big brother’ bills (San Francisco Chronicle)
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009Here are some of the “big brother” measures being considered by Nevada lawmakers: _ABUSE DATABASE: AB8 creates a new statewide database for names of people who work with the elderly and were accused of abuse, but not necessarily charged with a crime. The bill…
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Nevada revenue report expected by end of week (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009Legislators who start the 13th week of the 2009 session on Monday will have to wait until Friday for the biggest development — a Nevada Economic Forum meeting to determine how much revenue the lawmakers have for the state budget.
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Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Gets Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (Fast Company Magazine)
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009Just in case you needed any more reason to support Sierra Nevada beer, the brewing company has announced the installation of two ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations for electric vehicles at its Chico, California facility. It’s the first time a corporation has installed networked charging stations for electric vehicles. Sierra Nevada’s stations, built by Coulomb Technologies, […]
Aerodynamics on Land: Aiming for 800 M.P.H.
Saturday, April 25th, 2009a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/science/21speed.html?partner=rssnytemc=rss”img src=”http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/04/21/science/21speed-75.jpg” border=”0″ height=”75″ width=”75″ hspace=”4″ align=”left”/aA group of volunteers intends to take a modified fighter jet to the hardpan desert at Black Rock, Nev., to set a land speed record.
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Changes sought in Nevada’s racketeering laws (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Saturday, April 25th, 2009A state Senate committee voted Friday for an Assembly-endorsed bill that would make it easier to prosecute people under Nevada’s anti-racketeering laws.
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Bringing Nevada up to code (Las Vegas CityLife)
Saturday, April 25th, 2009FORGET for a moment, if you can, the soap opera of Nevada’s lothario governor as he fumbles every issue from stimulus money to Armenian genocide. Try not to think about his constant skirmishes with the Legislature, or that our state lawmakers are too cowed by casinos, mining companies and other big businesses to balance the […]
