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Councilman Cherchio had some questions about the coverage by George Knapp over that full-page ad that the firefighters paid for in the Las Vegas Review Journal the other day. Make of this what you will: Hello Mr. Knapp: As one of the four North Las Vegas City Council members, I am [...] Well, at least the hopes of a cheap way to discharge water coming from Nor’Town’s brand new waste water facility–oh, pardon me–water reclamation facility. Clark County officials, including Commissioners Chris Giunchigliani and Tom “Nortowners should move out” Collins, are against a plan from Nor’Town water experts to discharge North Las Vegas toilet water down Sloan Channel, an [...] 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 about [...] 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. 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. 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. 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, 710 [...] 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 to [...] 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 it [...] 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 [...] |
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