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Two Men in Critical Condition After Shooting

North Las Vegas police report shooting and a crash:

North Las Vegas, Nevada – At about 5:49 a.m., on Sunday, March 14, 2010, North Las Vegas Dispatchers received a report of shots fired in the 4500 block of Shannon Jean Court. Officers arrived to find one unidentified shooting victim in a [...]

Coffee Party Has Nor'Town Meeting

The Coffee Party Movement, not to be confused with the Tea Party, which is a “fishy” thing in Nevada, will have a meeting this Saturday for organizational purposes:

Type:

Meetings – Club/Group Meeting

Date:

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Time:

12:00pm – 2:00pm

Location:

Kavanaugh’s

Street:

3290 W. Ann Road

City/Town:

North Las Vegas, NV

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Check out the Facebook page.

According to the Party website:

MISSION: The Coffee [...]

Nor’Town Spreads The Love

And the salmonella.

There’s a pretty impressive list of all the foods that have to be recalled over on the Food and Drug Administration’s website due to the discovery of salmonella at the Nor’Town plant of Basic Food Flavors, Inc.

The plant is now closed. However, ever the responsible Nor’Townie company, Basic Food Flavorings has apparently known [...]

Police Need Help Identifying Robber

The North Las Vegas Police request the help of Nor’Townies in identifying a robbery suspect.

Follow the link ftp://media:cnlvpd@ftp.cityofnorthlasvegas.com/ and click on the folder titled 10-3993. You may have to click and drag the .avi file to your desktop in order to view it.

If you have information regarding this or any crime in or around North Las [...]

Exciting Events In Nor'Town This Week!

Oh, okay. It depends on what you mean by exciting. However, here’s the lineup for this week:

Comment on the BLM’s Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Upper Las Vegas Wash at a meeting Monday, Feb. 22: 6 p.m. – 8 p.m, BLM Southern Nevada District Office, 4701 North Torrey Pines Drive, Las Vegas.
Comment again [...]

UPDATE: Special City Council Meeting on Emergency Transport is BACK ON!

In what is surely a sign of anarchy at City Hall, the HOA alliance is now announcing that the Special City Council meeting on emergency transport will be held at 4:30pm this afternoon.

I have just called the City Clerk’s office, and they say the meeting will be held.

Frankly this kind of nonsense is completely unacceptable [...]

Nor’Town is Slumurbia!

Have a read of Timothy Egan’s Slumurbia, and tell me if it don’t sound just a tad too close to home.

And then wonder if our civic leaders shouldn’t do a little soul searching before jumping into more carpet-bombing development as soon as they smell an end to the Great Recession:

A few lessons about [...]

Slaughtering Sacred Cows

Look carefully at the above table. It contains a list of proposed layoffs offered up to city council Thursday night as a means to fill up a $33 million shortfall in the city budget.

It offers up 273 layoffs (at the bottom of the second column) to achieve the goal of about $36 million savings (bottom [...]

Playing with the Parks

Just a few notes on what happened at the Special City Council Meeting Wednesday about various park issues:

Park naming: the main proposal was to limit the naming of parks to people dead for at least two years. The idea was to avoid problems like that associated with Floyd Lamb park, which is named after a [...]

County Commissioners Tom Collins, Chris Giunchigliani Don't Like Animal Ordinance

Clark County Commissioners Tom Collins and Chris Guinchigliani have sent letters to Nor’Town City Councilfolk protesting a proposed ordinance designed to regulate the sale of animals in public places. (KTVN)

According to the commissioners, the new ordinance will actually conflict with the city’s own spay and neuter laws. The laws require that animals be “fixed” by [...]