This pilot program will provide us key insight into what works and what needs improvement, and I think that we should highlight what this program really offers. The proposed pilot program has several advantages over the current system. Some of these advantages are an increase to once-a-week recycling pickups and the use of single-stream recycling. Single-stream provides residents an easy way to recycle because it allows them to place their recyclable materials into one container.
Simplified spelling, proposed 100 years ago by Andrew Carnegie, is still supported by such groups as the American Literacy Council. Alan Mole, the group's president, told the AP that the English language has 42 sounds spelled 400 different ways. His group favors an end to what they call "illogical spelling."
The "freedom" to smoke in casinos will be ended soon by the casinos themselves. Some day soon, a casino will have to pay a huge judgment to some unfortunate employee who developed lung cancer from exposure to secondhand smoke while on the job.
The show, a fundraiser for PBS, was taped in November during his 100th performance at the Las Vegas Hilton, where he has been a headliner since February 2005.
Inside the sales center, Donald Trump's partner in the project, Phil Ruffin, and associate Jack Wishna were videotaped while hobnobbing with several well-attired folks who were dressed like potential executives - or would-be Trump apprentices.
According to Bloomberg News, that $2.4 billion represents a 14 percent increase over the amount of money spent on lobbying in 2004 and is a whopping 50 percent more than lobbyists spent in 2000. Federal discretionary spending last year rose to $967.9 billion - a 57 percent increase over the amount spent in 2000. And, as one lobbyist told Bloomberg News, "as long as there's more money, there's going to be a need for people in Washington to be hired to get it."
CARSON CITY - Plans to pump millions of gallons of water to the Las Vegas area from rural Nevada will leave the land scarred, cut the wildlife population and drop the water table by more than 20 feet, an environmental organization claims.
Nam June Paik was a pioneer in making video as art. The multimedia installation artist, who was born in Seoul, Korea, died earlier this year at age 73. He combined technology and music and worked with avant-garde artists, including cellist Charlotte Moorman, composer John Cage, rock star David Bowie and choreographer Merce Cunningham. He also manipulated television sets to distort the imagery and is recognized as the creator of the first video synthesizer.
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine should not have drawn thousands of privately employed people into a budget problem that should have been wholly contained within state government.
Dozens of Nevada and Utah residents are challenging a state law that bars them from participating in hearings on the Southern Nevada Water Authority's plan to pump rural Nevada ground water to Las Vegas.
WASHINGTON - Any hopes Las Vegas casinos had of the federal government gently starting to loosen prohibitions on Internet gambling are likely stalled now that U.S. House Republicans have decided to target online betting as a cornerstone of their election-year American Values Agenda.
