Nor'Town: Politics in North Las Vegas

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Oooo, not sure I can recommend this month’s meeting unless you own a gas mask.

There’s a talk by the Census Bureau, which will probably be all right, though I’d recommend the rep from the Fed Gov be careful cuz the Alliance has also invited a rep from the ultra-libertarian, vigorously anti-government organization called Nevada Policy [...]

The North Valley Democrats will hold their monthly meeting on January 19, 2010. The social stuff starts at 6:00 pm and the meeting gets going at  6:30 pm meeting.

The meeting will be located at the Centennial library, 6700 North Buffalo, LV, (Near Von’s & Target at 95 & 215).

The guest speaker for the evening is [...]