Today's News

Wednesday

HIGH 83°/ LOW 52°
Sunny, with a high near 83. Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night  — partly cloudy, with a low around 52.

SUNRISE…SUNSET
6:20 a.m. to 7:50 p.m.

Thursday

HIGH 82° / LOW 53°
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 82. Northeast wind 5 to 15 mph becoming south in the afternoon.

Submit your calendar items and notices to…
mlopez@lasvegasoptic.com
_______________

• First Born program provides services to families in San Miguel and Mora counties. It is a free and confidential home visiting program. To learn more about the program, or to schedule a visit, call 454-1343.

The following editorial recently appeared in the Jacksonville (Fla.) Daily News.

Democrats remain in gloating mode following the failure of GOP efforts on health care. The realities of Obamacare and its structural deficiencies, however, threaten to break up the celebration.

For now, let’s simply call them “Kitty” and “Tookta,” the second name pronounced with a long “o,” as in Tuke-tah.” We Trujillos have done it again; we’ve accepted two more foreign exchange students whom we understand are the only two such students in Las Vegas.

Two years ago we took Phaedra, from Belgium, and Ana, from Spain, into our home and “adopted” them for 10 months while they completed their 10th and 12th school grades, respectively, at West Las Vegas High School.