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How About Teaching Kids and Adults to Respect Everyone

I saw a tweet from @riayn about a Louisville administrator punishing a student who called school bus driver a “jerk” after school bus driver ridiculed student for having Lesbian parents: “RT @outoutout: Sick and disgusting! “Louisville school targets student over her lesbian parents” http://bit.ly/cJ9hzc”
After reading the article, I had to send an email to the [...]

Vintage Vegas Blog

I’ve been interested in downtown Vegas for years, especially so the past 3 years while I’ve been waiting for my condo to be built. We are still in limbo on the condo, but I wanted to take a look at vintage homes and neighborhoods in Vegas.

I especially like the architecture of the 50’s and [...]

Crisis of Credit Explaination

Check out this is a well done and easy to understand explanation of how we got into this financial mess we are in.

OK, I gotta say something…

I’m not big on political labels or other labels for that matter. They are used as a shorthand to tell us how think. You know, you hear “the progressive think tank, The Bookings Institute…” and you think, OK I’m oriented now, I know how to frame this discussion. Anyway, I could go on and on [...]

Random stuff

Living with 6 cats is very interesting. They chase each other non-stop during their waking hours. They attack my feet when I’m sleeping. They get into everything. They prefer to drink from our water glasses and aren’t afraid to knock them over to get to the water. Yes, they have a couple of water bowls, [...]

Women in Non-Traditional Fields

This past Tuesday I was honored to participate as a member of a panel discussion at CSN. CSN held an event to raise awareness of employment opportunities for women in non-traditional fields. CSN provided pizza and pop in the lobby of the Telecommunications building and had booths where women and men could get information on [...]

Do you know you’ve been robbed?

If you’re an American, you’ve been robbed. 19 foreign hijackers killed more than 2000 people on September 11, 2001, but our own elected representatives; our own countrymen have robbed us of many of our freedoms. You might not know it, you might not feel it, but we’ve lost several freedoms in the name of national [...]

Witnessed an Assault

Yesterday, I witnessed a man assaulting a woman. I was walking to my car and I noticed some odd movement behind a pine tree near my car. A woman was walking away from a man, and he was speaking to her in an angry manner. Then he pulled her hair and tried to lead her [...]

Downtown Vegas

I’ve been keeping an interested eye on what’s happening in downtown Vegas. I’m very excited about the plans for development down there and am impressed by all the building activity. If half the things planned by the city come through, it will be a much more interesting city overall, and a great place to hang [...]

Nevada High Tech Summit

Last Tuesday, I attended a summit sponsored by Senator John Ensign. In addition to the senator, the keynote speakers were Dr. Craig Barrett, the Chairman of the Board of Intel, and Dr. Irwin Jacobs, the founder and Chairman of the Board of Qualcomm. Both Dr. Barrett and Dr. Jacobs provided an interesting perspective on our [...]