Jane Ann Morrison

If you made a horror movie about Carole Vilardo, she’d be holding a hatchet dripping with blood, while wearing a stylish hat.

When you ask for an extra large slice of pie and then eat just a little, your mom is going to remember. The same holds true with the federal government.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid “has an intolerance for fat people, manifested in asides to aides who seem to be getting portly and an office staff that is suspiciously slim.” Or so says a 5,000-word profile of Reid running in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine.

My dad always used the matching-fund technique to teach me fiscal responsibility. When I wanted to study in London for a semester, he paid half. I worked for the other half.

After gaming legend Claudine Williams died May 13, her son arranged for some of her personal effects to be auctioned off to benefit four worthy charities she supported: Opportunity Village, St. Jude’s Ranch for Children, the Nature Conservancy and UNLV’s School of Hotel Administration.

The ongoing argument over electing judges versus appointing them seemed irrelevant Wednesday evening. The list of judicial candidates at that time showed every single incumbent who will be on the ballot in Clark County had no challenger.

Rejection isn’t easy to take. There’s serious grumbling about the rejection of two recommendations from the Nevada Judicial Code Commission by the Nevada Supreme Court.

Starting Jan. 19, judges and judicial candidates must abide by a new code of conduct. One of the things I particularly like is that judges are advised against looking the other way when they see other judges misbehave.