I spend enough time in downtown Las Vegas to have gotten used to the smell of the place, which tends toward a mixture of body odor, sand, car exhaust and vomit. Which is why it was so easy to find the Helldorado rodeo last weekend, even though it was tucked [...]
Here’s a cardinal rule of community organizing: Do not schedule important meetings during major sporting events. Last night’s F Street meeting, the last before a planned protest march on the Strip, had the smallest turnout of any since the gatherings began.
The meeting still drew about 50 people with no [...]
Here’s an extended Q& A with the League of Conservation Voters’ Tony Massaro and Nevada Conservation League’s Scot Rutledge. A condensed version of this interview can be found in this week’s CityLife.
Q: What are you doing in Nevada?
Tony Massaro: We’re talking about Sen. Harry Reid because there are literally [...]
Hey Nevada, get out your lead aprons and rubber gloves, because the U.S. Department of Energy is looking for a few professional cleaners who aren’t afraid of a little nuclear contamination. The agency is diverting $44 million from the stimulus bill to tidy up the Nevada [...]
Ok. I’m confused. Six weeks ago, Nevada Corrections Director Howard Skolnik blamed a reduction in the state’s prison population on the recession. People are staying in, he said, cocooned within the perimeter of their home security systems, nuzzling firearms, counting and recounting the Benjamins squirreled [...]
An update to our recent story about Handy Cash, a payday lending company with four Las Vegas locations. Today the Department of Business and Industry issued a cease and desist order unrelated to the lawsuit filed by the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada.
According [...]
The Great Recession is looking more like the Great Depression everyday. The latest similarity? Homeless encampments popping up in mid-size cities across the country. Sacramento doesn’t know what to do with its 125-person shantytown, although the city is poised to move the camp to a [...]
The Great Recession is looking more like the Great Depression everyday. The latest similarity? Homeless encampments popping up in mid-size cities across the country. Sacramento doesn’t know what to do with its 125-person shantytown, although the city is poised to move the camp to a fairground. And now Fresno, Cal.; [...]
Voters might decide in 2010 whether Nevada judges should be appointed or elected. Without debate, the Senate approved a plan that would ask voters if judges should be appointed by the governor initially, after which voters would determine if they should remain on the bench.
[...]Clark County has a budget that is larger than the state’s and it’s time the job of Clark County commissioner is a full-time job, says Sen. Terry Care, D-Las Vegas.
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State Sen. Bob Coffin wants to impose a $5-per-trick tax on legal and illegal prostitution. To raise money for schools and prisons and stuff. Read about it here.
The legal brothels are all for it, because they have this crazy idea that paying taxes confers respectability. [...]
At the New York Times website, economist Daniel Hamermesh gamely tackles the conundrum of gender-based pricing at Mandalay Bay’s Moorea Club. Women pay $10 to enjoy the topless faux beach, whereas men pay $50. Hamermesh, a professor at the University of Texas, says the service [...]
There’s more than one way to lose a bundle of money in Vegas. That’s the takeaway from Saturday night at the Aruba, where some friends and I spent night three of Neon Reverb.
The lot belonging to the hotel was full, so we parked on the north side, in an [...]
Gov. Jim Gibbons has asked the federal government to waive the requirement that Nevada restore hundreds of millions of dollars in proposed cuts to higher education in order to qualify for a portion of the economic stimulus.
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Killers aside, the city of Las Vegas isn’t really known for its musical output. Youngsters don’t flock here, acoustic guitars in tow, entertaining visions of artistic or commercial breakthrough. By the time most musicians hit Vegas, they’re making their victory lap, ready to settle in to [...]
Las Vegas used to be a popular destination for corporate outings, until President Barack Obama laid a massive guilt trip on the financial sector for vacationing on the public dime. Fortunately for us, the renewable energy sector missed the memo and went ahead with an [...]
Las Vegas used to be a popular destination for corporate outings, until President Barack Obama laid a massive guilt trip on the financial sector for vacationing on the public dime. Fortunately for us, the renewable energy sector missed the memo and went ahead with an expo this week at the [...]
