Jane Ann Morrison

President Barack Obama didn’t apologize Wednesday because he had no reason to, despite demands for an apology from Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman and Gov. Jim Gibbons.

Elaine Wynn was sharing memories of Claudine Williams, when a few tears slipped down her cheek.

Nearly 20 years ago, U.S. Sen. Richard Bryan was “Mr. CAFE.” No, he wasn’t hawking a competitor to Joe DiMaggio’s Mr. Coffee. The Nevada Democrat was leading the charge to raise the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards.

Sign company owner Mark Peplowski remembers it vividly. North Las Vegas City Councilman William Robinson and developer Randy Black Sr. don’t remember it at all. Yet somehow in 1996, the councilman’s $2,650 sign debt to Peplowski was paid off by Black.

For six hours Friday, I watched a merit selection panel question candidates for two justice of the peace jobs, culling nine applicants down to six — all the time wondering whether pressure to forward the names of the only two minorities would sway the panel.

A last-ditch effort to change the date of municipal elections (and save $1 million of taxpayers’ money every other year) went phooey in the Assembly Elections Committee on Tuesday.

The Navy helicopter pilot who smashed the cone of silence around the 1991 Tailhook convention at the Las Vegas Hilton and changed the way the military handled women’s claims of sexual abuse is now a yoga teacher.