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Seven Questions
Seven Questions for Richard Bryan
Nevada’s former governor and U.S. senator on political dysfunction, the benefits of the Electoral College and his affinity for cupcakes
January 17th, 2013
Richard Bryan was twice elected as both Nevada governor (1983-89) and a U.S. senator (1989-2001), but throughout a near-hourlong conversation, the 75-year-old Democrat is as cordial and down-home as your grandfather. With a contentious election season in the rear-view mirror—and an inauguration in D.C. and a legislative session in Carson City around the corner—we thought it an ideal time to catch up with the statesman and take his pulse on the current goings-on in his old world. Read more »
Politics
A Model of Integrity
January 17th, 2013
Gene Segerblom, a lifelong teacher and longtime legislator, died on January 4 at age 94. She lived well, traveled widely and did everything she wanted to do, except stay around longer. Her husband Cliff was an artist, and Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith described her Boulder City home as “one part poem, one part art museum.” You can be a politician and still be interested in other things. Read more »
Can This Plan Make Our Med School Great?
January 17th, 2013
The University of Nevada School of Medicine is an icon of Nevada’s north-south civil war over public-program funding. The school’s dean, Thomas L. Schwenk, took less than a year to figure that out and another year to develop a more productive paradigm. In 2013, he’ll begin the long process of getting his plan put in place. Read more »
In Real Estate, Old Truths for a New Year
January 10th, 2013
No one’s ready to say a real estate rebound is here to stay. But at least we now have a hint of positive uncertainty. Here are a few things we’ve learned about real estate, Vegas-style, as we lurch into 2013. Read more »
About Town
The Lure of the Ice
January 10th, 2013
This has been a good winter for skating in the desert. In addition to the two year-round rinks we visited, three high-profile seasonal rinks have expanded the Valley’s ice awareness. Read more »
Social Vegas
Hashing Up Secrets
January 10th, 2013
Here, now, is everything I know about Hashing and the clubs that do it, known as Hash House Harriers. I know that Hashing is a combination of trail running, pathfinding, beer drinking and blue language. By doing a Google search for “Vegas Hash,” that there’s a local chapter—a tremendous sign that our scrubby little desert town is growing more worldly. Read more »
Fitness
The Mob Rules
January 10th, 2013
Triathlons are so 2010. If you’re not wearing a Pippi Longstocking costume caked in mud and hoisting a pint of beer as you pose for a group photo at the end of your race, you’re doing it all wrong. The name of the fitness game today is “mob.” Read more »
Politics
The Year in Preview
January 3rd, 2013
After a year of rhetorical warfare in Nevada politics, the state will have to actually get down to business this year. The 2013 Legislature has a lot on its plate—especially the perennially kicked-down-the-road issues of revenue, education and legislative efficiency. Here are my fearless—maybe even reckless—predictions for the year ahead. Read more »
The Year After the Year of Downtown
January 3rd, 2013
Which neighborhoods have hit bottom and are ready to bounce? What areas are reaching toward a cultural or commercial critical mass? Which ones will benefit from some good old-fashioned wishful thinking? Read more »
Vegas Tech
Seven Trends to Watch in ’13
January 3rd, 2013
We’ve reached the point where the pace of technological progress is so fast that advancement itself seems ordinary. But things are anything but ordinary here in Las Vegas, where the growing tech scene is primed for a year of maturation. That said, here is my look at what to expect in 2013. Read more »
