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This Week at Council Chambers: Utilities Fun

There’s a special session of the North Las Vegas City Council at 4:30pm, Weds. Mar. 3rd to discuss staffing of city Utilities personnel. Don’t know if that will bring out the Utilities folk and make for another sardeen-like council meeting, but no one can predict these days.
Redevelopment follows at 5:30 where they’ll be looking into [...]

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 [...]

Lots to Do This Week

This weeks’ events include:

Grand opening of Rory Reid for Governor Las Vegas office, Tue, Feb 16 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM, 4350 S. Arville Unit 26, Las Vegas NV 89103.
Special meeting of city council looking into a proposal to allow fire department to transport folks to hospital in an emergency, Wednesday, February 17, 2010, at [...]

Nor'Town Teabaggers! Town Halls Coming!

Feel the urge to scream at a government official? Teabag a Town Hall?

You’ll have plenty of chances in the coming weeks to have some fun with North Las Vegas elected officials.

First Up: Mayor Pro Temp William Robinson: Ward 2.

WHEN:  6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 11

WHERE: Nevada Partners Culinary Academy, [...]

We'll Be Murdered in Our Beds!

That was the message North Las Vegas Firefighters and Police brought to council chambers Wednesday night. That is, we’ll be murdered in our beds if council decides to cut personnel from those departments. (KTNV,LVNow,Sun,RJ) Council members seemed surprised by the uprising. The mayor pro temp William Robinson insisted that no one was talking about cuts [...]

Day is Night and Night is Day in Nor'Town

Forget “the community of choice.” Nor’Town is officially “the community of cognitive dissonance.”

In the January 20th meeting of city council, old Phil “Downer” Stoeckinger, the director of finance of the city and lately the most depressing person in Nor’Town, outlined how throwing everything and the kitchen sink into the city’s budget gap just won’t fill [...]

No HUD Foreclosure Money for Nor'Town

News came early today that the Department of Housing and Urban Development will not be awarding funds to southern Nevada communities designed to stabilize neighborhoods hit by a large number of foreclosures. Las Vegas Mayor Goodman went into the requisite fit over the news, and Senator Harry Reid made noises about taking steps to fix [...]

The Fun Side of a Firing

This post is just an excuse to list some of my favorite highlights from the debate over the severance of city manager Rose from Nor'Town last week. A few of these didn't make Lynnette Curtis's or Amanda Llewellyn's writeups. Here's what you missed if you weren't there:

A citizen commenting that Mr. Rose should attend beauty [...]

NLVAHOAACC Meeting Thursday, Dec. 10

The North Las Vegas Alliance of Home Owners' Associations and Concerned Folk will be having it's monthly meeting on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 6 pm at the Aliante Library (assuming the city doesn't shut the library down due to budget pressures between now and then). The Agenda, from the organization:

N.L.V. ALLIANCE OF H.O.A.'S www.nlvalliance.comDATE:  THURSDAY, [...]

Nor’Town is MurderTown!

Some scary murder statistics in the Review-Journal today. According to a table of “murder clearance rates”, Nor’Town solves around 50-60% of its murders, while Metro police solve 70-80% and Henderson, a dull and staid community, solves most of its murders, when it can get up the energy to commit one, that is.

HOMICIDE CLEARANCE RATES
Homicides/Solve rate

2005
2006
2007
2008
2009

Metropolitan

Police [...]