By LISA MASCARO, Las Vegas Sun
How will health care reform affect you? A Q and A
After town-hall meetings, congressional hearings and a prime-time presidential address on health care reform, many questions remain about the proposals being considered on Capitol Hill.
EPA weighs regulating mercury emissions from mines
As the Environmental Protection Agency moves forward with the nation's first-ever regulation of mercury emissions from gold mines, the agency's top administrator vows stricter monitoring of the toxin -- which continues to accumulate in streams, air and fish.
Like a poker pro, Reid won't tip his hand on health care reform
A tried-and-true lesson in deal making is a simple one: Don't show your hand.
Keeping the cards close to the vest can be a strategy for playing poker, buying a car or, it turns out, running the U.S. Senate.
Untangling the $96,000 Ensign's parents gave his paramour
For tax accountants, the $96,000 payment Republican Sen. John Ensign's parents made to the family of the woman with whom he was having an affair is a tantalizing puzzle.
Look for a few extra dollars in your paycheck
If you haven't noticed it yet, look for an extra $11 a week in your paycheck this week, thanks to President Obama and supporters in Congress.
Millions of Americans start receiving extra cash as part of the president's $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Debate reopens over where to store nuclear waste
Ever since President Obama promised to significantly scale back the Yucca Mountain budget this year, the question has been a simple one: Now what?
Sometimes the question comes as a genuine line of inquiry about the future of nuclear waste. At other times it is loaded with incredulity.
'Elephants' out-tweet 'Donkeys' on Capitol Hill
The nation's politicians have taken up a surprising new pastime -- expressing themselves in 140 key strokes or less.
Washington has discovered Twitter, the online social networking tool that its Web site says offers "short, bite-sized updates about your life."
'Elephants' out-tweet 'Donkeys' on Capitol Hill
The nation's politicians have taken up a surprising new pastime -- expressing themselves in 140 key strokes or less.
Washington has discovered Twitter, the online social networking tool that its Web site says offers "short, bite-sized updates about your life."
Lawmakers won't give up Yucca Mountain easily
President Obama may substantially scale back funding for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in his proposed 2010 budget, but its supporters are not going to go down without a fight in Congress.
Door still open for Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump site
The Obama administration remains steadfastly opposed to the Yucca Mountain project, but new Energy Secretary Steven Chu is leaving the door ajar for the government to continue seeking a license needed to open the nuclear waste dump site.
