Although mayors across the country for months have been paying lip service to concerns about the fast-rising cost of gas and its effect on their constituents, most are not really all that concerned, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman said at his July 3 news conference.
The high cost of gasoline may be killing the economy, but it also may be saving lives. Over roughly the first half of this year, fewer drivers are using state highways, and fewer people are dying on those roads.
For elderly and disabled valley residents who are unable to drive and don’t have relatives or friends available to give them rides, getting to medical appointments, social services offices, recreational activities and shopping centers is often difficult.
The Las Vegas Valley could learn from communities that are taking creative approaches to traffic management — efforts that began long before $4-a-gallon gas started pushing cities in that direction. Here's a look at those ideas and how they could apply locally.
To those who worked with him, Richard Land will be remembered as a man who regulated Southern Nevada’s taxicab industry with a passion matched by few of his predecessors. Land died May 13 following a bout with liver cancer. He was 76.
If you want to get an earful about gasoline prices, a good place to start is the Downtown Transit Center. And once you’re there, a good person to start with is Mario Pawlik.
Kathy Graves just wanted a cab ride but instead is getting the runaround while learning the hard way that Nevada law does not require taxis to carry uninsured motorist insurance.
Not so long ago the sellers of high-rise concepts and the possible tax windfalls that came with them were welcomed by the Las Vegas City Council and mayor with sincere thank-yous and pledges of city support.
State and national civil liberties advocates have compelled a rural Nevada school district to roll back a policy prohibiting high school students from speaking Spanish on the bus.
Long before the deadly collapse of a highway bridge in Minneapolis in August, Congress realized that the federal government had to do a better job of improving the nation’s surface transportation network.
Thanks to Brian Greenspun for his wonderful Jan. 27 column applauding the efforts of Shai Agassi to promote the use of electric cars and recharging networks in Israel.
Las Vegas was second in the nation for auto thefts in 2005, but Metro Police estimate that at least 25 percent of all cars reported stolen aren't. So here's the honest-to-goodness: They're ignited and abandoned.
Instead, in response to the report that employees of Reagan National Airport were entering secure areas without being screened, a report augmented by hidden-camera video, the TSA simply issued a generic statement.
For those thinking that getting additional taxi service during next month's National Basketball Association All-Star Game was going to be a slam dunk, think again.
