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- IRS’ tip deal riles Culinary
- Once a waitress, now just waiting
- Graduates’ burden: Student-loan payments
- Tone of card-check support shifts
- Kentucky takes Las Vegas Invitational crown
- Palo Verde pounds Las Vegas High
- Nevada’s rate of default on college loans among highest in the nation
- A hip homage to history
- Rebels fall at home on consecutive days for first time in 28 seasons
- Sanford safe for ‘09, will meet with Hamrick this week
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Politics: The Early Line
Auto industry bailout (redux), Internet gaming, and economic stimulus in Nevada (1 Comment)
Sports: Upon Further Review
Kentucky wins LV Invite
Sports: UNLV
Sanford safe for '09, will meet with Hamrick this week (4 Comments)
High School Sports Scene
Texas-bound Bradley helps Findlay rout Centennial, 96-35
4A State semifinals breakdown
Culture and Entertainment
Pub rolls out the rug for 'Lebowski' fans (1 Comment)
Ballin' in Bulgaria
A tough transition (2 Comments)
Wranglers Roundup
Another Wrangler joins NHL ranks
Calendar
- Free Holiday Decorating at Las Vegas Senior Center (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.)
- Football Mondays at the House of Blues (5 p.m. to 11:59 p.m.)
- “You Can’t Catch Me" - Gingerbread Baby Pajama Party at The Enterprise Library (6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.)
- Stephen Thomas at The Comedy Stop (10:30 p.m. to 11:59 p.m.)
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Did you know that if you build a $250,000 house on the beach or riverfront, with a magnificent view, you cannot get insurance on it from any commercial insurance company. But the government will pay up to $250,000 to rebuild the house if it is washed away. If you rebuild and it is damaged or washed away again, they will pay again, and again,and again. Build one in an area where you know it will be washed away if you can afford it, rent it, and if it does not rent or it is wasked away, eventually you can't lose, you will get your money back. Wealthy individuals and "corporations" build many such houses and even tracts of such houses for personal or rental reasons. Several hundred million or even billions of dollars are paid out every year for repairs or replacement of such houses, especially after hurricanes in resort areas. This is our taxes being used for welfare, too. THIS is the kind of welfare, for those who don't need it, and who shamelessly and unethically play the system, that I would like to see ended. To take away care for the poor, especially those who DO have jobs but cannot support a family, seems relatively selfish.