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- Officials want club patrons off the pole
- Regulations in the works would limit stripper poles’ use to hired go-go dancers
- Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009
- If county officials have their way, patrons of the Strip’s many nightclubs will no longer be allowed to get their kicks on the clubs’ stripper poles. County spokesmen confirmed an effort is under way to write up a regulation prohibiting the use of the poles by anyone other than the go-go dancers hired by the clubs.
- Experts to advise, provide cover, on cuts
- Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009
- Pushed and pulled over budget cuts, Clark County commissioners last week turned to a tried and true way of creating some political cover for the hardest decisions — appointing a committee to make recommendations.
- Prive enlists lawyer with connections in fight for liquor license
- Wednesday, July 29, 2009
- As Prive nightclub seeks to regain its liquor license, it will rely on the formidable skills of attorney Jay Brown, who over three decades has earned a reputation as an influential advocate in local government circles.
- Road study commissioned, just in case
- Commission to argue that transportation to nuclear dump threatens public
- Sunday, July 12, 2009
- The new administration in Washington has assured Nevadans that they can relax — the unopened nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain will stay that way.
- UMC's bill collections baffle
- Commissioner wants to know why hospital in red sees so little of what it's owed
- Wednesday, July 1, 2009
- University Medical Center is collecting less than 1 percent of its past-due bills, a situation that one county commissioner said needs to be quickly addressed to turn around the financially troubled public hospital. Of the $459 million in past-due debt UMC was owed between October and May, its three collection agencies recovered just $2.9 million, or 0.6 percent, from former patients.
- Homeowners’ chance to make good on permits
- Sunday, June 7, 2009
- Do-it-yourselfers in unincorporated Clark County are catching a break. The county has launched a three-month amnesty period for homeowners who did their own remodeling or fix-ups without necessary permits.
- Commission gives blessing for 80-acre movie compound
- Thursday, June 4, 2009
- The man who founded the Oakley sunglasses company has his eye on creating a camera manufacturing plant and movie studio in the Las Vegas Valley. Jim Jannard was listed in 2008 by Forbes magazine as the 134th-richest man in the U.S. with about $3 billion in assets.
- State budget fallout: Family Services braces for layoffs
- Sunday, May 24, 2009
- The county is almost certain to lay off employees to balance its budget. One of the first areas to be hit is likely to be the Family Services Department.
- Staff backing, low bid fail to win job
- Commissioners pick local company for northern beltway paving project
- Sunday, April 26, 2009
- The Clark County Commission made an unusual move during last week’s meeting — and the result is a lawsuit and a lot of questions.
- Steve Wynn to put Las Vegas in '60 Minutes' spotlight again
- Thursday, April 9, 2009
- For the second Sunday in a row, Las Vegas will be featured on the prime-time news magazine show, "60 Minutes". Steve Wynn will be the focus of this Sunday's show.
- How buyouts of employees would work, now and later
- Sunday, March 15, 2009
- As a last defense against layoffs, Clark County appears ready to join Henderson and Las Vegas in offering buyout packages to employees as a way to reduce salary and benefit costs in the long run.
- Commission doesn’t like city’s special district plan
- Tourists it aims to attract would come downtown anyway, officials say
- Friday, March 13, 2009
- As if Las Vegas didn’t have enough critics of its downtown redevelopment moves, some members of the Clark County Commission are set to argue against the city’s plan to create a Tourism Improvement District on 4.5 acres of land surrounding the forthcoming mob museum.
- For the tip on a crime, workers are honored
- Recorder’s office digging led to fraud conviction
- Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009
- The county recorder’s office is one of the last places most people would think government employees are ferreting out crime.
- MGM Mirage cancels CityCenter condo project
- County official says ‘significant’ errors found on 14 floors of CityCenter unit
- Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009
- The Harmon Hotel & Spa – originally planned as a 49-story building with some 200 condominiums atop 400 hotel rooms, will no longer offer condominiums and instead will open in late 2010 as a 400-room hotel, MGM Mirage said today. The Harmon, one of six towers at MGM Mirage's CityCenter resort complex under construction on the Strip, had been slated to open in November.
- Builder sees green light in red-flag economy
- Seeking gaming OK, he says outlying city is coming along
- Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008
- Harvey Whittemore has boasted that his Coyote Springs project, 55 miles northeast of Las Vegas, won’t be just another Southern Nevada housing development. Rather, it will be a master-planned city unlike anything in the state. Yet like most Nevada communities, it will have at least one casino.
- Big bonuses in Republic merger
- Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008
- A proposed $5 billion merger between Republic Services and Allied Waste Industries Inc. includes compensation packages totaling $71 million to $152 million for the top people at the companies, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- Experts at Brookings event say Las Vegas will boom again
- Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008
- A diverse cast of about 150 business, political, governmental and academic leaders from throughout the state packed a room on the UNLV campus this morning not just to listen, but to impel U.S. Sens. Harry Reid and John Ensign to focus more federal attention on Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona.
- HUD funds to help new home buyers
- Buyers in foreclosure won't see benefit from federal funds
- Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008
- If your home is in foreclosure, the $72 million infusion of Department of Housing and Urban Development money coming to Nevada isn’t going to do you any good.
- Stacked buses catch on, branch out in valley
- A cost-effective solution, double-deckers treat riders to different view
- Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008
- An increasing number of Las Vegas Valley residents are getting the chance to ride in the same style as tourists.
- Why slump could be a good thing
- Valley needs timeout to consider quality-of-life design
- Friday, Aug. 22, 2008
- For the valley, the housing market downturn is also an opportunity. Not for people seeking to buy low and profit later, but for those who believe urban planners need a chance to rethink the design of our suburbs.
- She’d ‘legalize’ feral cats to save them
- Commissioner proposes code to help groups record, sterilize, vaccinate felines
- Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008
- Because the yowling ranks of feral felines are growing as financially strapped people abandon their pets, a self-described “dog person” on the Clark County Commission is pushing for a code change to stop stray cats from overrunning neighborhoods.
- Measuring population in moving boxes
- Fewer people need them of late, another indicator of slowing growth
- Monday, Aug. 4, 2008
- Early last week, as he prepared to move back to California, Steve Saltzman sold a competitor what was left of his once thriving enterprise — at a going-out-of-business price.
- Told you, critics of arena plan say
- They say sales pitch for site shows intent all along was to flip
- Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008
- In a move that has critics crying foul, the brokerage TR Las Vegas, who convinced property owners to sell 56 acres to REI Neon to build an arena, wants to sell all those acres — together or piecemeal — to whoever wants to buy them.
- WHAT IT RECOMMENDS: Involvement by the federal government is a big part of the suggestions in the Brookings Institution’s report
- Sunday, July 20, 2008
- he Brookings Institution’s study examining problems faced by the West’s emerging “mega-metropolitan areas,” such as the Las Vegas Valley, zeros in on several key areas on which the think tank highlights problems and makes recommendations, including:
- The good in gas prices
- Miles driven are down, and so are deaths in traffic accidents
- Tuesday, July 1, 2008
- 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.
- Expensive commuting not holding the charm
- Gas price spike could bode ill for an outlying place like Coyote Springs
- Thursday, June 19, 2008
- If, as some expect, gas tops $5 a gallon by the end of the year, the pain at the pump could make some rethink buying a home in “exurbs” distant from their region’s major hub — something happening in Southern California and elsewhere across the nation.
- Casino plan may survive arena’s death
- Friday, May 30, 2008
- The casual stance of opposing attorneys during a Thursday hearing spoke volumes about the REI Neon arena project — which is good news for the Culinary Workers Union and a group of concerned residents, both of which are fighting the project.
- Fifth Street School soon to brim with students of the arts
- Renovations nearing completion
- Thursday, May 29, 2008
- It could have ended up just another Las Vegas story, a memory faded from disuse, forgotten by the hordes of residents coming and going, then finally falling victim to the wrecking ball.
- Our concentration of resorts is cited as economic model
- Brookings Institution: Clustering similar businesses key to success
- Friday, May 2, 2008
- Las Vegas’ success in becoming a nexus of entertainment and gambling is a model that American cities would do well to emulate in other businesses, a new Brookings Institution report concludes.
- Plan to build in Las Vegas? City won’t hold its breath
- Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008
- 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.
- In race, downtown arena plan falls back
- Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007
- Anschutz Entertainment Group/Harrah's Entertainment: Developer with experience building arenas across U.S. and abroad says plans are on track for fall 2010 opening.
- Downtown arena hangs fire
- Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007
- A development company that told Las Vegas it could build a downtown sports arena in three years plans to ask the city for 16 more months just to get its plans together.
- Magnitude of CityCenter plan is enough to leave you speechless
- Sunday, Jan. 21, 2007
- In his poker-room days, Bobby Baldwin was known as "The Owl" because, as Card Player magazine put it, he was "a 15 percent better poker player than any man alive."