The Local Newsroom
Three Questions: Fuel-Tax Indexing
April 10th, 2013
Let’s say Assembly Bill 413—a.k.a. the motor-vehicle fuel-tax-indexing bill—comes up in cocktail conversation. Here’s the one thing you would remember to say if Tina Quigley, the general manager of the Regional Transportation Commission, had her way: It’s not a tax increase. Read more »
Got Something to Prove, Truck Monsters?
April 10th, 2013
Dear Las Vegas residents gunning V8-propelled, two-ton pickups through the city traffic: Enjoy your second-story perches, from which you may look down on bugs like me. Read more »
The Hazards of the Blip
Dismissing our economic failures as anomalies will doom us to repeat them
April 10th, 2013
“Failure,” the las Vegas motivational economist Jeremy Aguero said recently, “is part of human advancement.” He’s right, but there’s a corollary: Failure is part of human advancement—provided that he who fails can honestly examine the causes and consequences of his blunder, make corresponding adjustments and proceed as a wiser man. Read more »
Seven Days
A curated guide to this week in your city
April 3rd, 2013
The 12th annual Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational begins at Shadow Creek. Expected participants include Chevy Chase, Don Cheadle, Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Kevin Nealon and Michael Phelps. Read more »
Three Questions: Ice Age Predators
April 3rd, 2013
UNLV geologist Josh Bonde was surveying the Upper Las Vegas Wash last June when he and his team of undergrad assistants noticed a bone sticking out of the side of a hill. He knew immediately that it was from some sort of dog, and an independent examination recently confirmed it was the foot bone of a 10,000-15,000-year-old dire wolf. Read more »
Excuse Them While They Clear Their Throats
What has the Legislature done so far?
April 3rd, 2013
The 2013 Nevada Legislature has been something like that period of time at The Smith Center between the bartenders pouring your beer into a sippy cup and the orchestra making warm-up sounds from the pit. In fact, you might say our lawmakers have continued gargling salt water and doing scales behind the velvet curtains well into the first act. Read more »
Kitchen Boot Camp
Southeast Career Technical Academy teaches teens the finer points of hospitality
March 19th, 2013
My wife and I watched as dining-room staff in crisp white shirts and black bow ties handled the lunch crowd with meshed precision. Our food arrived quickly: chicken piccata moist and bright, and jasmine rice subtly flavored. Read more »
Green Felt Journal
With Resorts World, Macau Comes to Vegas
March 19th, 2013
When Resorts World Las Vegas rises from the abandoned husk of Echelon Place on the north Strip, it will be very different from what Echelon would have been. And the differences tell us a lot about where Las Vegas has gone in the six years since the property’s 2007 groundbreaking. Read more »
Politics
Staying True in North Las Vegas
March 14th, 2013
North Las Vegas has a problem. Isaac Barron is running for its Ward 1 City Council seat because he thinks he has a solution. “I’ve heard people say we need to re-brand North Las Vegas,” he says. “I’m not sure what they mean. We are not Green Valley or Henderson, or Boulder City or Las Vegas. There’s no negative connotation to that. We want people to be able to raise their families here, have a good home and a good job, good parks and schools. I just want to see my city prosper. I can’t change what has been done in the past, but I can help with the future.” Read more »
