Kate Silver
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She spent a decade flexing her dauber arm … er, pen in Las Vegas. Her work has appeared in People, Playboy and Spirit magazines, and she was on staff at Las Vegas Weekly and Las Vegas Life. Now Silver is a resident of Chicago, where recently accepted a (temporary) job with the U.S. Census Bureau, and her bureaucratic urban misadventures can be found on her blog, chicagocensusworker.wordpress.com.
Recent Articles
Fighting the Copyright War
Review-Journal using flood of lawsuits to help protect intellectual property
July 22nd, 2010
What do a cat blog, a gaming website, a real estate agent, marijuana reformers and the Nevada Democratic party all have in common?
They’ve all been sued by a Las Vegas company called Righthaven for publishing all or parts of articles that originally appeared in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Since March, Righthaven has filed 75 lawsuits (as of press time) in federal court accusing bloggers, political parties, online casinos and others of violating copyright law.
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Leaning Towers
July 15th, 2010
Move over, Pisa, there’s now something … lean-i-er.
Veer Towers opens this week. They are those two shimmery glass residential towers you’ve no doubt noticed, leaning in opposite directions, five degrees from the center. It’s the next-to-last property of MGM Mirage’s CityCenter to open (the Harmon is still to come) and two of the most distinguished buildings in the Las Vegas skyline.
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A Face for Radio?
July 15th, 2010
Boulder City’s former Miss Congeniality goes for the state crown Steph MacKenzie has been referring to herself lately as “classic rock chick meets the pageant world.” That’s primarily because the co-host of the Point 97.1’s “Foxx and MacKenzie in the Morning” show doesn’t just have a face for radio—she has a face for a beauty queen. MacKenzie, who is the current Mrs. Las Vegas, will be vying for the 2010 Mrs. Nevada crown July 18 at Texas Station.
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ALS of Nevada: ‘We’re Just Going Week by Week’
Nonprofit organization struggles to find money to remain open
July 1st, 2010
ALS of Nevada helped make a trying time easier for Renee Flood. In 2008, the 48-year-old’s mother, Kathy, 66, was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a.k.a. Lou Gehrig’s disease. Renee, who lost her job around the same time as the diagnosis, had no money, no resources and didn’t know where to turn.
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The Local Newsroom
Labor Pains
Beginning July 1, the minimum wage in Nevada increases 70 cents an hour. What does that mean to Las Vegas businesses and employees?
June 24th, 2010
Earlier this month, Fob James IV started thinking about measures to cut costs at his two Blondie’s Car Wash locations. The starting wage for his 20 to 30 employees is $8 an hour—a salary that remains higher than required only until July 1, when Nevada’s minimum wage rises 70 cents to $8.25 an hour for employers who don’t provide health benefits. Those who do provide health insurance will see the minimum wage rise to $7.25 an hour. That puts Nevada on par with 13 other states and Washington, D.C., which all pay wages above the $7.25-per-hour federal minimum.
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Top of the Heap
June 24th, 2010
Las Vegas is home to the safest garbage truck driver in the country, according to Environmental Industry Associations.
Republic Services rear-load truck driver Anthony Lucious recently received the Driver of the Year award at the industry’s annual convention, WasteExpo, in Atlanta.
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The Good Ol’ Girls Club
Program recruits, trains Democratic women to run for political office
June 24th, 2010
Erin Bilbray-Kohn is working to create what she calls a “good ol’ girls club” in Nevada politics. As the executive director of Emerge Nevada, a program founded in 2006 to recruit and train Democratic women to run for local, state and federal offices, she’s off to an impressive start. Earlier this month, 12 Emerge graduates won in the primary election.
Read More »Bargain Hunting?
Experts share the travel-deal possibilities for summer
June 17th, 2010
Thinking that there must be some good in the bad economy, we polled the experts for great deals on summer vacations. But because travel deals are subject to change (scroll the fine print here) and because our deadlines prevent up-to-the-minute updates, we have to communicate the possibilities in generalities about when, where and why to go. But this report should give you a pretty good idea of what’s being offered.
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The Evolution of Fatherhood
A new book by a UNLV professor highlights how far dads have come
June 17th, 2010
Modern dads are more involved in their children’s lives than in any time in history, thanks to evolution (and perhaps a few armed and dangerous cavewomen).
That’s the subject of a new book by UNLV associate professor Peter Gray. He and University of Oklahoma associate professor Kermyt G. Anderson co-authored Fatherhood: Evolution and Human Paternal Behavior, which was published last month by Harvard University Press.
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Stick a Cork in It
Efforts under way to recycle natural wine closures
June 10th, 2010
“We want your cork,” reads the nondescript box inside of Double Helix Wine Bar + Boutique at the Shoppes at the Palazzo. Double Helix wants your cork so badly, in fact, that a discount on wine is available to those who bring in corks: 10 corks gets you $2 off a drink, while 50 corks translates into 25 percent off any bottle in the store or bar. Not a bad deal for your fallen cork soldiers, which have a tendency to congregate in drawers or find their way to the trash.
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