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	Barbwire by Barbano: Jan Jones finally debates Sen Neal
		Jones' husband, Richard Scheutz, is a longtime gambling industry executive.
		Jones defeated Neal by a wide margin in the September, 1998, primary, then adopted a Bill Clinton-like strategy of adopting GOP nominee Kenny Guinn's issues as her own.
		Jones tried to spin the campaign as "Joe Neal vs. workers." Sen. Neal took strong exception to that remark, stating "none of this is for Joe Neal.
	www.nevadalabor.com /barbwire/barb00/barbjones.html (1088 words)

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		Jones argued that the statement was true based upon Miller's testimony, during his deposition, that he had driven the car around the block before his daughter purchased it.
		Jones counters that the district court correctly determined that Miller "failed to present any evidence that the written material concerning the plaintiff was published by the defendant with actual malice." We conclude that Miller's argument has merit.
		Jones from tort liability; but, I do believe that the correction and apology are part of an overall picture which, taken as a whole, would justify a trial court in concluding, as a matter of law, that Ms.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?court=nv&vol=114nvadvopno136&invol=2 (4464 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Miller, Jones woo crucial labor support
		But Mayor Jan Laverty Jones, who is seeking either to block the necessary two-thirds vote to endorse Miller or to gain a split endorsement, is looking past the September primary, when only one Democratic candidate will be in contention for the state's highest office.
		Jones, who earlier Sunday had opened the convention by welcoming the union officials and delegates, followed Miller's afternoon address with a few words of her own.
		Jones stressed that it is the people who elect officials who have the true power, and it is up to those elected officials to make decisions based on what they believe, rather than how they feel those decisions will be received.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/1998/jan/30/506765591.html (671 words)

	Mayor Jan Laverty Jones
		In 1991 Jan became the first woman elected official in the City and was re-elected by a 72% margin in 1995.
		Jones is a graduate of Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and attended the University of Southern California School of Food Marketing Management.
		Jones is the former Chairman of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and former Nevada State National Committeewoman for the Democratic National Committee.
	www.lasvegasmikey.com /jones.htm (392 words)

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		Jan Laverty Jones, Mayor, City of Las Vegas, testified in support of AB 433. Ms.
		Jones believed the Fremont Street Experience was a project which would turn the current trend completely around. She pointed out creating an atmosphere which would allow downtown Las Vegas to flourish was essential to not only the future of downtown but to the entire strip resort area in Clark County.
		Jones replied the City of Las Vegas had recently approved an ordinance that any project which received redevelopment funds had to utilize 51 percent employment from the area and felt this would address Mr.
	www.leg.state.nv.us /67th/93minutes/A_GA_416.html (1092 words)

	State supreme court decision
		On March 5, 1993, Jones moved for summary judgment, with respect to Miller's complaint only, on the grounds that the allegedly defamatory statement was either true or made without actual malice.
		Jones argued that the statement was true based upon Miller's testimony, during his deposition, that he had driven the car around the block before his daughter purchased it.2 On April 19, 1993, the district court granted Jones' motion for summary judgment and ordered Miller to pay Jones $1,164.80 in costs and $20,000.00 in attorney's fees.
		In this case, Jones argues that because the statement at issue was published in the context of a political campaign, it would have been read as a statement of opinion.
	www.stevemiller4lasvegas.com /supreme1.html (2840 words)

	CNN/AllPolitics Election 98
		Jones, who disposed easily of state Sen. Joe Neal in the primary, jumped into the race late, giving Democrats an established political figure in their effort to hold the seat of Gov. Bob Miller (D), who is prohibited from seeking another term.
		Jones, who comes out of the private sector, is articulate and outgoing, and she should test Guinn.
		Jones has proven to be smart and aggressive, and even GOP insiders wonder how Guinn spent his campaign war chest.
	www.cnn.com /ELECTION/1998/stake/governor/rothenberg.html (6747 words)

	Jan Jones: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Jan Jones's summary was automatically generated using 729 references found on the Internet.
		Jan L. Jones is Senior Vice President of Communications and Government Relations for Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. In that role, she oversees government relations, corporate communications and community relations for the company.
		Jan is the former Chairman of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and former Nevada State National Committeewoman for the Democratic National Committee.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/jones_jan_318892.aspx (635 words)

	The Timeshare Beat: Harrah's Entertainment Announces New Senior Vice President of Communications; (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Jones will be responsible for shaping the public perception of Harrah's Entertainment through public relations, community relations, financial communications and government relations.
		Jan Laverty Jones was mayor of Las Vegas during a time when it emerged as the fastest growing city in America.
		In 1991, she was the first woman elected to public office in Las Vegas, and in 1995, Jones was reelected to a second term with 72% of the vote.
	www.thetimesharebeat.com /archives/htl/htloct54.htm (570 words)

	Jan Jones & Blackie Evans
		Jan Jones Shows Her Ambition, Blackie Evans His Venom
		Las Vegas Mayor Jan Laverty-Jones filed this week as a Democratic candidate for Nevada governor, completing the "Hail Mary" pass that keeps Democrat hopes alive for 1998.
		But the Democrats' savior was recently dressed down by Mary Boetsch, the chairman of the Nevada Ethics Commission, for her decision to hire a friend of her new husband "for a $100,000-a-year job without interviewing anybody else." Said Boetsch, "This is as close to the line as you can get without stepping over it.
	www.electricnevada.com /pages98/mut0524.htm (1334 words)

	Guinn edges Democrat rival to pick up Nevada - November 3, 1998
		Jones, who disposed easily of state Sen. Joe Neal in the primary, jumped into the race late, giving Democrats an established political figure in their effort to hold the governor's seat.
		Jones comes out of the private sector, with stints as a management company executive and restaurant holding company executive, and was an articulate and outgoing candidate.
		Jones ran a TV spot criticizing Guinn's record as Clark County's school superintendent, and generally tried to focus on issues like education, health care and the environment.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/11/03/election/governors/nevada (566 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Jones, J.
		Jones, J. — of Stigler, Haskell County, Okla. Republican.
		Jones, J. — of Watson, Desha County, Ark. Republican.
		Jones, John Sills (1836-1903) — also known as John S. Jones — of Ohio.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/jones5.html (1185 words)

	Las Vegan Magazine of Las Vegas
		Jan Laverty Jones has been Mayor of the City of Las Vegas since 1991, the first female elected to office in the city.
		Jones was honored as "Woman of the Year" by the National Conference of "Christians and Jews in 1992 and by Nevada Dance Theatre in 1995.
		Jones spoke with us recently about her views on state issues and her plans for Nevada if elected governor.
	www.lasveganmagazine.com /lvn_issues/22-TheRace/TheRaceOn.htm (8185 words)

	No Casino Money
		Neal's main Sept. 1 primary opponent, Las Vegas Mayor Jan Laverty-Jones, and GOP frontrunner Kenny Guinn both support the Steve Wynn art tax loophole.
		Jones, who entered the race on May 18, the last day to file, has raised well over $700,000.
		After his first legislative session in 1973, he complained "It seems we have been juggling the interests between lobbying groups instead of caring for the ordinary citizens," the state's largest newspaper stated.
	www.joeneal.org /98/more.html (1951 words)

	Barbwire by Barbano: Power games, rape and pillage at the public trough
		Jones ran a lackluster campaign, handing the election to Guinn.
		She did acquiesce to take on fired Harrah's bartender Darlene Jespersen, who held her own with the polished Jones on a CBS network telecast last year.
		Jespersen received the Hellraiser Award in the March-April edition of Mother Jones magazine and will soon appear on Fox Network's "The O'Reilly Factor." She was bumped last week because of the return of the U.S. hostages from China.
	www.nevadalabor.com /barbwire/barb01/barb4-15-01.html (974 words)

	Nevada Dems Heartened By Crowded GOP Field In 1st District Race - August 25, 1998
		On the Democratic side, Las Vegas Mayor Jan Laverty Jones is considered the leader, despite her last-minute decision to run.
		Jones already has statewide exposure from a unsuccessful primary challenge against Miller four years ago, although she was soundly defeated by more than a 2-to-1 margin.
		Her main primary opponent is state Sen. Joe Neal, who has made political enemies for his refusal to vehemently oppose a proposed nuclear waste disposal site at Yucca Mountain that he believes is inevitable.
	edition.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1998/08/25/cq/nevada.html (1061 words)

	Statement of Jan Laverty Jones, ISTEA, March 28, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Besides serving as Mayor, Jan Jones also is a regional transportation commissioner and a mother of three children living in the north west.
		So she is very familiar with the burden shared by all the families in the Valley as they transgress that roadway.
		Mayor Jones believes the additional lanes for U.S. 95, along with the additional high occupancy vehicle lanes, will cut traffic congestion, as well as improving air quality in the Valley.
	www.senate.gov /comm/environment_and_public_works/general/105th/jones_nv.htm (376 words)

	nv_home - CBS News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		However that was before a Hollywood producer challenged him in the primary and the charismatic Mayor of Las Vegas, Jan Jones, emerged as the Democratic nominee.
		Meanwhile, Jones did not face significant primary opposition, but she was confronted with serious questions about her health.
		A colorful and charismatic figure, Jones is popular in the state, although polls have shown that it is based more on her personality than her policies.She spent most of the summer vaunting her experience as mayor and her record of creating jobs, diversifying the economy and fighting crime.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/1998/10/08/politics/main19549.shtml (1276 words)

	Kent County Daily Times - Harrahs gets first taste of study commission
		Loveman and Jones also tried to squelch long-standing rumors about the dirtiness of casino gambling, claiming that the form of entertainment was not a vice or a sin.
		In particular Jones pointed to a 1999 Casino Gambling and the National Gaming Impact Study Commission which was created by the 104th United States Congress.
		The study stated that communities near casinos experience neither idiosyncratic nor elevated levels of social problems while pathological gambling is confined to a small fraction of the population who are not affected by the presence of a casino in their community.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=6267723&BRD=1718&PAG=461&dept_id=74409&rfi=6 (458 words)

	Nevada History At A Glance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		- Nathaniel V. Jones was assigned to the mission by Brigham Young to explore for minerals in the area.
		Jones was considered the father of Nevada's lode mining, although this has been disputed as being a bit overstated.
		Chinese laborers were brought in to dig a ditch from Gold Canyon to within two miles of town.
	www.nevada-history.org /nevada_timeline.html (7899 words)

	Monday, July 8, 1991 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Jones is sitting in her office, the tools of her new trade at hand: a
		Laverty fell in love with Ted Jones, a Beverly Hills High School pupil.
		Jones car dealership, vowed to listen to all interests when she takes
	www.stevemiller4lasvegas.com /LosAngelesTimesarticlesmentioningSM.htm (3342 words)

	Casinos feel lack of respect unwarranted
		Jan Laverty Jones, senior vice president of communications at Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. and former Las Vegas mayor, said the industry hasn’t done a good job changing the way it’s perceived.
		Harrah’s Jones also challenged the industry to be more aggressive telling its story rather than complaining about unfair treatment.
		Jones suggested Harrah’s would do more TV advertisements like it did with Chairman and CEO Phil Satre over a period of five weeks in Missouri.
	www.rgj.com /news/stories/html/2002/09/28/24881.php (1528 words)

	Las Vegas City Life
		Back in the days when Jan Laverty Jones sat in the center seat at City Hall, Walters got a soils report that nobody else had while bidding to build a golf course on land near the sewage treatment plant.
		And when he was found to be a squatter on 29 extra acres of city land, the council merely amended the lease.
		It was only the revelation of past wrongdoing and an attorney general investigation that forced an embarrassed council to put the deed restriction back on.
	www.lasvegascitylife.com /articles/2005/12/15/cover_story/cover.txt (2264 words)

	Women in Nevada History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		She resigned in 1983 to accept a state position.
		woman elected Mayor of Las Vegas was Jan Laverty Jones in 1990.
		The women of the Washoe, Paiute, and Shoshone tribes were already here for thousands of years before the white women.
	www.nevada-history.org /women.html (757 words)

	May/June 2002 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club
		Worth noting is that the auto dealership is owned by the family of Jan Laverty Jones, the mayor of Las Vegas.
		Whatever the real danger from a nuclear dump, Mayor Jones told me in her glass-walled office ten stories above the carnival neon of the downtown casino district, even the perception of risk might divert Las Vegas' much-courted tourists to less worrisome locales.
		But Jones believes that most Americans, especially easterners, do not understand that Vegas is neither Sodom nor Gomorrah.
	www.sierraclub.org /sierra/200205/gambling.asp (4391 words)

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		Jones this morning described Hatch's support for the Nevada bill as a "very good thing for Nevada.
		Satre said he was meeting with other senators today in the hopes of winning more support for the legislation.
		Jones said Berkley told her that she has lined up several of her fellow Democratic colleagues on the House side, including Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, as co-sponsors.
	www.bettorsworld.com /web/forums/printthread.php?t=7582 (451 words)

	Primary Focus :: Show Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Jan Laverty Jones, Senior VP for Harrah’s, describes why she feels casinos have become so popular in today’s culture.
		She explains one trick of the trade: providing entertainment for children in order to draw their money spending parents.
		Interviews: Jan Laverty Jones, Senior VP for Harrah’s, John Eades, Tim Kelly, Executive Director for the United States Gambling Commission
	www.primaryfocus.tv /cgi-bin/showsum.pl?id=1 (623 words)

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	www.rulers.org /uscit.html (12511 words)

	News Bulletins
		Jones is now Senior Vice-President of Communications for Harrah's Resorts.
		The once and future political opponents take to the airwaves and cable wires live at 8:00 p.m., PST, on "Law for the Layman," hosted by attorney Dean Hardy and Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Nancy Oesterle.
		Jones refused to debate Neal in the 1998 Nevada Democratic gubernatorial primary.
	www.joeneal.org /bulletins9901.html (7691 words)

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