Issue: December 17, 2009
Hey everybody,
How are your toes? Felt ’em lately? Well, this week, we present Winter Guide 2009. Why do we call it Winter Guide 2009 when there’s only 14 days left in 2009? It’s one of life’s mysteries. Inside this year’s winter guide, look for a three-month calendar, interview with a daredevil freeskier, all the gear that fits, a snowboard that magically transforms to skis, and much, much more. Also in this week’s issue, check out Dennis Myers’ story describing how the Democratic health-care bill has something to make everyone a little ill. Arts & Culture has a gift guide for the cash strapped; Foodfinds has Italian for the cold and hungry; and Filet of Soul has sound advice for the spiritually flat. Wash it all down with a well-known homebrewed egg nog. As always, thanks for reading our newspaper. If it weren’t for you, we’d be left out in the cold.
Thanks again, and season’s greetings from the whole crew.
Brian
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Dead on arrival?
New health care bill’s provisions kept secret, even from Senate Democrats.
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Lincoln statue missing
Nevada once had a statue of the 16th president.
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Civil rights measures face Senate roadblock
The lack of majority rule in the U.S. Senate could stop measures that pass the House.
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State population stalls
People are not moving to Nevada as fast, or getting born in Nevada as often.
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The nog is back
Reno family’s holiday drink appears each winter.
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It’s nature’s way of flood control
We’re seeing a more natural form of flood control in the Truckee Meadows.
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Power and responsibility
An inquiry is needed into the conduct of Nevada’s attorney general.
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Power source
There are all kinds of people who come together to make this newsweekly.
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Letters for December 17, 2009
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Bruce solves the sex scandal thing
If only celebrities would avoid that one fatal pitfall.
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Conservative: Never having to say, ‘Pay later’
If we’re going to increase troops in Afghanistan, we should pay up front.
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Fired in the sky
If you had to lose your job, wouldn’t you want George Clooney to be the one to tell you?
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Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Going to the movies? Here’s your local guide to the highs and lows of Hollywood’s latest releases.
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The Princess and the Frog
Going to the movies? Here’s your local guide to the highs and lows of Hollywood’s latest releases.
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Freedom fries you
Chinese Gore shows are like camping trips in the mouth of a volcano.
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Decadent style
Is a visit to Vivoli Café and Trattoria worth braving the icy roads? Yep.
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Release me
The 2008 Toxic Release Inventory shows Nevada mining among the nation’s top polluters, again.
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Not another caulk joke, please
Cash for Caulkers aims to do for weatherization what Cash for Clunkers did for cars.
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Greenhouse gas is bad for you
The EPA finds greenhouse gas emissions hurt human health and welfare, and are poised to regulate them.
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The main stream
Single-stream recycling may be convenient but a poor long-term choice, new report says.
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Eco-Event: Crude the movie
Planetwize film fest’s final screening at West Street market is Dec. 19.
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Go halfsies
Split boarding is the best of both worlds for backcountry snowboarders.
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The upper limits
Big mountain skier JT Holmes on flying down cliffs, conquering fear and stretching the boundaries of skiing.
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Cold winter? Hot spring!
Great hot springs resorts are, depending on the weather, only a couple of hours away.
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