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    Left of Center
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    Left of Center

    Nov 01, 2020

    A new Nevada environmental coalition echoes Green New Deal values — and challenges the political establishment.

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    Airport shuttle bus
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    The Gilded Age

    Sep 03, 2020

    The things you can learn — about yourself, about others, about America — on an airport shuttle bus.

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    The Ballot and the Bird

    Aug 28, 2020

    Strange omens in the mail -- and from the sky

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    Get a Grip
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    Get a Grip

    May 01, 2020

    After I lost the use of my fingers, my rock-climbing career seemed over. But not the adventure. I had to get back in touch — with a new sense of self, and a new sense of purpose.

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    Shifting Lands
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    Shifting Lands

    Jan 01, 2020

    Is the county hiding something in its public lands bill, or are the scientists just paranoid?

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    Grasshoppers
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    This Is a Story About Eating Grasshoppers

    Dec 01, 2019

    And why you should ignore that gag reflex and take this seriously — for one thing, they’re good!

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    Descomp Teacher Results
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    What Can’t Be Measured

    Aug 24, 2018

    The harmful effects of accepting that our education system is “last in the nation”.

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    Alternate Universe
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    My Own Alternate Universe

    Jan 29, 2018

    Notes from the postmodern anywhere of a suburban convenience store

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    My 2017: If you’re an old person, I love you!

    Dec 26, 2017

    2017 was the year I started spontaneously dropping glurgey Hallmark-card lines into conversations, as much to my bemusement as anybody’s ...

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    My 2017: If you’re an old person, I love you!

    Dec 26, 2017

    2017 was the year I started spontaneously dropping glurgey Hallmark-card lines into conversations, as much to my bemusement as anybody’s ...

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    2016 Year in Review
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    2016: The year in review

    Nov 28, 2016

    Kind of a boring year overall, but there were a few small highlights worth noting, I guess 

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    Charter Schools
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    Chartered cruise

    Mar 24, 2016

    A guided tour of the biggest education issue in Nevada — and one of the state’s fastest-growing industries.

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    Being there: On dying, death, and healing our lives

    Sep 24, 2015

    America is generally what Dr. Therese Rando, in her book, Grief, Death and Dying, terms a “death denying” society (as opposed to “death accepting” or “death-defying” societies).

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    Jobs of the Future
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    About those exciting jobs of tomorrow

    May 26, 2015

    If you paid any attention to the Nevada Legislature this year — the policy part, not the part about the weird woman with all the guns who thinks cancer is a fungus — you heard a fair amount about the need to finally improve education so that Nevada’s youth will be prepared for the exciting jobs of tomorrow.

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    Senior matinees

    Dec 01, 2014

    I’m getting to know my dad again through movies and music. Two tickets, please

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    Lion hearted

    Sep 01, 2014

    Omens, writers and stars — one man's behind-the-scenes memories of Siegfried and Roy’s animated Father of the Pride Omens don’t beg for attention in Las Vegas. Everyone’s on the lookout for them.

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    Off the map

    Apr 01, 2014

    Impressions from 10 years of wandering Zion.

    It started like it does for dads from the Midwest, Boy Scouts from Texas and newlyweds from the Bronx: with a hike up Angels Landing, that predictably obvious, narrow fin of orange rock so tantalizingly cast out from Scout Lookout, a benign place to sit and watch, to lunch, beyond that other squiggly, curious haven, yes, Walter’s Wiggles, there in the mind-numbing center of the universe you and I call Zion Canyon.

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    Occupy@Vegas

    Mar 01, 2012

    How can we better promote our city around the world? By launching
    a collective Twitter account for all Las Vegans

    Last December, in a stroke of marketing genius, the tourism bureau in Sweden tried something new. Instead of using their Twitter account to link to press releases about lobster fests and the Stockholm furniture fair, they decided to hand the account’s reins over to a new Swede every week.

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    The sermons of 'Father Lucky' are getting strange

    Dec 01, 2011

    News item: A church official’s recent admission to stealing parish funds to fuel his gambling addiction makes one wonder if there weren’t warning signs.

    Brothers and sisters, some among you may have heard whispers within our community of certain questionable financial matters at this parish.

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    The cheapest eats of all

    Jul 01, 2011

    Love a great bargain? Are you stealthy? Can you run fast? These meal deals are for you!

    Listen: The dining deals described in the preceding pages have been amazing. Truly.

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    Educational paradise lost

    Jun 01, 2011

    When we arrived from Cali, Colombia to live in Green Valley in 2001, my older son, Jesse, was only 4, and Dylan was due in seven months. Our life in schools was just beginning.

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    Missing you, Las Vegas

    May 01, 2011

    I wasn’t missing Las Vegas when I climbed aboard the red and gold trolley chugging up Powell Street. (There was just room for three, so my sister, my mother and I squeezed on board among two dozen other passengers.

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    Twenty-one is a crowd

    Apr 01, 2011

    From towering peaks and deep canyons to seasonal waterfalls and wild burros, Red Rock National Conservation Area is a premier destination for outdoor enthusiasts. Hikers have found some of the best rock scrambling hikes in the country here.

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    Into the wild: An outdoor girl dates in the indoor world

    Apr 01, 2011

    What happens when an outdoor girl dates in the indoor world? A whole new kind of adventure The desert just wants to be loved The conversation died. My date made a brave attempt to fill the silence.

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    We're all here with you, Vegas! In these tough times, Vegas needs a little pep talk

    Mar 01, 2011

    I know things are tough, Vegas, and I know that most of the resolutions you made a couple of months ago have gone out the window. I know you took a long hard look in the mirror, told yourself it was going to be different, it was time to make a change, you really meant it this time, and now you're pretty much back to doing what you've always done.

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