Even though the doors are open, Saturday’s high winds kept General Issue USA from having its sign installed at Pahrump Junction shopping center. The actual address is 150 S. Highway 160, C 4 A, between the smoke shop and the jewelry store. General Issue USA will hold a Grand Opening May 1, with or without the sign.
No one matched all five numbers and the mega number in Wednesday’s drawing of the California Super Lotto. The next jackpot will be at least $56 million.
In October 1973, the Nixon administration was deep in scandals from its various forms of corruption. Vice President Spiro Agnew was under investigation for the bribes he had taken as Maryland governor and vice president. News of the probe had become public and Agnew did a slow burn about the publicity.
WASHINGTON — Anodyne euphemisms often indicate an uneasy conscience or a political anxiety. Or both, as when the 1976 Democratic platform chose “compensatory opportunity” as a way of blurring the fact that the party favored racial discrimination in the form of preferences and quotas for certain government-favored minorities in such matters as government hiring, contracting and college admissions.
The Pahrump Town Board weighed in on the local medical marijuana debate.
Some were disappointed. Others wondered if their opponent shouldn’t just quit the race for sheriff altogether.
