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| + | == Mad dash by L.V. Phil's concertmaster; Nick Hissom caked in == | ||
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| + | <html>The extended Fourth of July weekend has taken The Kats Report train from The Smith Center for the Performing Arts to Tryst at Wynn Las Vegas,[http://xed.it/wiki/sri/index.php?title=Utente:Flattenut37#Wearable_robots_getting_lighter.2C_more_portable Wearable robots getting lighter, more portable], and, of course, America. | ||
| + | The band America, I mean. At The Club at Cannery. | ||
| + | It’s an action-packed weekend. As we brake, we rake: | ||
| + | ? The Las Vegas Philharmonic’s concertmaster had to scramble just to make the stage in time for Thursday’s “Fourth With the Phil” show at Reynolds Hall. | ||
| + | De Ann Letourneau was at The Smith Center in plenty of time before the 7:30 p.m. show. That was not the problem. Before she took her position as the Phil’s first-chair violinist, she had a commitment at Symphony Park, during which she was to perform with Frankie Moreno as part of the outdoor party that started at 4 p.m. | ||
| + | That concert lineup also featured Ellie Smith (Miss Teen Nevada 2012, who later sang the national anthem to open the Phil show) and country artist Sam Riddle. Moreno followed Riddle, and by the time he hit the stage with his scaled-down band (with Letourneau wielding the fiddle), it was 7:15 p.m. | ||
| + | By then, many ticket-holders who had been enjoying the music on the lawn were headed for the indoor pops show that, naturally, was to include the Phil’s first-chair violinist. | ||
| + | The audience was seated at 7:30. Letourneau’s chair was the last to be filled, which is common at symphony shows as the concertmaster is the last orchestra member to take her position. What the audience didn’t realize is at that moment,[http://www.jerseys-hearts.com/Nike-Texans-Blank-Women-Zebra-Jerseys-23635/ Nike Texans Blank Women Zebra Jerseys], Letourneau was running in high heels (too hot to take them off, she explained) across The Smith Center complex from the grassy Symphony Park stage to the Reynolds Hall dressing room. A security guard rushed up to her while talking into a headpiece, saying, “I’ve got her!” and led her into the venue’s side entrance. | ||
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| + | ? The conductor for the “Fourth With the Phil” performance at Reynolds Hall is a person to watch, and not because he is so much fun to watch. Matt Catingub led the symphony’s pops presentation, a show steeped in patriotic songs fitting for the holiday and even a medley of TV sitcom theme songs (“All in the Family” linked to “The Love Boat” followed by “The Brady Bunch,” like that). | ||
| + | Catingub is a vastly talented, uber-versatile music director who can sing (he shared the stage with Clint Holmes and Kristen Hertzenberg on Thursday and fearlessly sang with both great vocalists), write charts and play the sax and other horns in the woodwinds family. Catingub is a pops specialist as the music director for the newly formed Glendale (Calif.) Pops Orchestra and Hawaii Symphony Orchestra Pops. | ||
| + | He toured with Rosemary Clooney and has arranged and composed for an array of artists, including Boz Scaggs, Kenny Loggins, Diana Krall, James Ingram, Toni Tennille, The Righteous Brothers and Toto. As the son of Frank Sinatra protégé Mavis Rivers and a Vegas resident, Catingub is an ideal figure to lead the Phil’s pops shows. He’s back in April for a Vegas-styled, standards-driven pops show. | ||
| + | L.V. Phil officials, who plan to fill its open music-director position by next May, also are figuring out how to grow the symphony’s five-concert pops series to give Catingub more chances to lead the orchestra. He’s a magnanimous conductor. His enthusiastic sing-along to such songs as the theme from “Happy Days” tickled the holiday crowd. More Matt, we say. He’s fabuloso.</html> | ||
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| + | == Sen. Heller- Keep mortgage forgiveness debt relief tax == | ||
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| + | <html>For many underwater Nevada homeowners,[http://wiki.nusepas.com/index.php/User:Flattenut52#Mad_dash_by_L.V._Phil.27s_concertmaster.3B_Nick_Hissom_caked_in Mad dash by L.V. Phil's concertmaster; Nick Hissom caked in], the most important part of the New Year’s Day fiscal cliff deal wasn’t the assurance that their income tax rates wouldn’t rise, but the guarantee that for the coming year, they could refinance their mortgages or short-sell their houses without owing income taxes on the money they saved. | ||
| + | But in another six months, that guarantee will expire ― potentially setting back financially strapped homeowners by tens of thousands of dollars. | ||
| + | Now, senators from the two of the states hit hardest by the bursting of the housing bubble are trying to make sure Congress extends mortgage forgiveness tax relief for at least two years. | ||
| + | Nevada Sen. Dean Heller and Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow released a bill Wednesday that would extend mortgage forgiveness tax relief until the end of 2015. | ||
| + | “If Congress does not act this year, then thousands of Nevadans who are underwater in their homes will be forced to pay a tax at a time when what they need is some relief,” Heller said. “This legislation is a common sense approach that will prevent Nevadans from being taxed on income they never received.” | ||
| + | In 2007, Congress passed the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act, which allowed homeowners to exempt up to $2 million of forgiven home mortgage debt to be written tax-free. Before then,[http://wiki.torfabrik.de/index.php/Benutzer:Flattenut82#.E2.80.98Priscilla.2C_Queen_of_the_Desert.E2.80.99_to_end_run_at_The_Venetia ‘Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’ to end run at The Venetia], the IRS taxed any debt that was waived as income. | ||
| + | The extension of the provision under the fiscal cliff bill provided significant relief to Nevada homeowners, about 60 percent of whom were underwater on their mortgages at the time of passage. In the first quarter of 2013, about 45 percent of Nevada mortgages are underwater ― an improvement, but still enough to rank the Silver State as the worst in the nation. | ||
| + | As a “Hardest Hit” state, Nevada has federal money dedicated to encouraging banks and other mortgage service providers to reduce the principal on underwater loans. The idea of principal reduction is that by reducing the overall amount owed, it becomes more manageable for homeowners to pay off their debt and stay in their homes. Recipients of the assistance cannot earn more than one and a half times the area’s median income ― which was $48,927 in Las Vegas in 2011 ― and cannot have a mortgage balance of more than $427,184 in Clark County. | ||
| + | Such principal reductions can be worth up to $100,000, according to the state’s Department of Business and Industry ― a significant amount to be taxed as income, should mortgage forgiveness tax relief expire.</html> | ||
