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Yeh, yeh, I’ve got to update the final list of candidates for Nor’Town spots and environs over in Election Central. However, two last minute switches should be entertaining to Nor’Townies.
First, Elizabeth Halseth pulled out of the busy Nor’Town Assembly District 13 race to take on Dennis Nolan for Senate District 9. She made the switch because Nolan’s original opponent, Michelle Fiore, decided on a suicide run against Shelley Berkley. The theory is, apparently, that since there is a growing anti-incumbent sentiment among voters, even a well-entrenched Congressgal like Berkley could be vulnerable. Well, good luck with that.
Anyways, Fiore’s move into the race agin Berkley was not too thrilling to the up-to-then best positioned candidate against Berkley: Craig Lake, the closet Republican. The Republican party brass even asked former Nor’Townie Mayor Mike Montandon and Nor’Townie Assemblyguy “Hanging” Chad Christensen, now dementedly taking on Harry Reid and a boatload of other candidates for the U.S. Senate, to take on the run against Berkley much to Craig’s chagrin.
You can go read up on the fun over at Nevada State News Bureau and some rants about it over at Nevada News? and Views.
Aren’t we having fun, so far this election season?
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 vehicle that crashed into a brick wall at Shannon Jean Court and Delorean Drive and another unidentified shooting victim lying near the collision. Both men were transported to UMC Trauma where they remain in critical condition.
Preliminary investigation shows that the two men were tampering with a vehicle parked in the driveway of a house in the 4500 block of Shannon Jean Court. The owner came out armed with a gun and fired on the two men as they fled the scene in a gold Chevrolet Silverado. Both men were struck by gunfire prior to crashing into a wall less than a block away.
Further information will be released as this investigation continues.
Anyone with information about this crime is urged to call the North Las Vegas Police Department (702) 633-9111 or Nevada Crime Stoppers (702) 385-5555. Cash rewards, up to $2,000 are offered to persons who telephone the Crime Stoppers hotline with information that leads to the arrest or indictment of the person(s) responsible for felony offenses.
http://crimestoppersofnv.com/
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:
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Kavanaugh’s
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3290 W. Ann Road
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Check out the Facebook page.
According to the Party website:
MISSION: The Coffee Party Movement gives voice to Americans who want to see cooperation in government. We recognize that the federal government is not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will, and that we must participate in the democratic process in order to address the challenges that we face as Americans. As voters and grassroots volunteers, we will support leaders who work toward positive solutions, and hold accountable those who obstruct them.
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 the contamination since January, yet kept pumping out the tainted goo which fills our fast food for a month. (RJ)
Hey, now there’s a replacement for “your community of choice” if the city is looking to update the city slogan. How about: “Nor’Town: The Salmonella Capitol of the World!”
Still, anyone making the drive along Craig on the east side of I-15 will miss the factory. The odor easily masked anything the pig farm could dish out. I’ll be the value of the apartments across the was shoots up, too, until the threatened re-opening.
- 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 a proposal for development at Lake Mead and 5th Street.
- At the regular meeting at 6pm, you’ll get to see the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada hand over $7 million for a bit of Losee real estate. Woah, is any piece of land worth that much in Nor’Town any more? Also, watch council pay off their Carson City lobbyists for $10,000. You think anyone will ask why the lobbyists let the State government dip into Clark County funds? Come on! Somebody say it: Heck of job, Senator Bryan!
- They stole Councilman Eliason’s water pipe! (Sun)
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 Vegas , contact CrimeStoppers at 702 385-5555. Cash rewards, up to $2,000 are offered to anonymous persons who telephone the Crime Stoppers hotline with information that leads to the arrest or indictment of the person(s) responsible for felony offenses.
http://crimestoppersofnv.com/
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 on the BLM’s Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Upper Las Vegas Wash at a meeting Tuesday, Feb. 23, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m, Centennial Hills Community Center YMCA, 6601 North Buffalo Drive, Las Vegas.
- Mayor Shari Buck will be holding an apocalyptic Town Hall Tue Feb 23 6pm – 7pm City Hall, Council Chambers, 2200 Civic Center Drive, North Las Vegas, NV. Ask her who gets chopped: the fire department or MedicWest.
- Comment again, or the first time, on the BLM’s Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Upper Las Vegas Wash at a meeting Wednesday, Feb. 24, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m: North Las Vegas Library, 2300 Civic Center, North Las Vegas, NV.
- North Las Vegas Alliance of HOA’s et alia will hold their monthly meeting Thursday Feb 25th at 6pm at the Aliante Library, 2400 Deer Springs Way, North Las Vegas, NV. Topics will include the recent dustup over transporting emergency bodies, concerning which the Review Journal had a couple write-ups here and here. Special guest star: Kenny Young, Senior Assistant to the City Manager, assuming he doesn’t get laid off prior to the meeting.
 BLM folk will be out and about next week soliciting comments on the draft of their Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Upper Vegas Wash. Everyone is invited to attend the meeting and hopefully support either alternative A which sets aside 13,000 acres for stuff such as fossile bed preservation or the BLM’s preferred alternative B for 11,000 acres.
The report is online here.
The Draft SEIS describes and analyzes possible boundary adjustments to the Conservation Transfer Area referenced in the 2004 Final Las Vegas Valley Disposal Boundary Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) and Record of Decision.
The meetings are scheduled from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. on February 22, 23, and 24, in Las Vegas and North Las Vegas, and will be in an open house format:
· Monday, Feb. 22: BLM Southern Nevada District Office, 4701 North Torrey Pines Drive, Las Vegas
· Tuesday, Feb. 23: Centennial Hills Community Center YMCA, 6601 North Buffalo Drive, Las Vegas
· Wednesday, Feb. 24,: North Las Vegas Library, 2300 Civic Center, North Las Vegas, NV.
BLM Las Vegas Field Office
Attention: Gayle Marrs-Smith
4701 N. Torrey Pines Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89130
The BLM encourages your participation in this scoping process. Please contact Gayle Marrs-Smith, BLM Project Manager, at (702) 515-5156 to request additional information regarding the scoping meetings.
Although it is important to take part in the process so that the BLM knows folks around here don’t want the land under study handed over to developers, this process is distinct from that currently in motion in Washington to declare portions of the area a fossil beds national monument. According to a Harry Reid spokester at the Protectors of Tule Springs meeting last Wednesday, that process seems to be moving along fairly well, and there may be draft legislation coming along soon.
Oooo look, other fossil beds national monuments:
And wasn’t that a pleasant meeting, too? Quite the contrast with the City Council meetings, where anarchy reigned, especially in the special meeting over whether the firefighters should take over the job of transporting emergency cases to the local hospital. (RJ,Fox5,Sun,KLAS) I gave up on that meeting when I couldn’t find a parking place. Seeing that MedicWest had brought in two busloads of folks convinced me that, like most council meetings of late, it would be impossible to get in. Open meetings, indeed. Council decided 4-1 (Buck in the minority again) to punt on the fire department’s proposal. They’ll be bringing it up again in two weeks at what will no doubt be another popular meeting.
At the Upper Wash meeting, however, all of the northern valley’s political tribes, excluding the beleaguered Nor’Town city council, were in attendance, in peaceful harmony and unity, mainly because 10,000 Nor’Townies and Nor’Vallies got organized. Something to think about there.
Say, anybody plan yet to run Jill DeStephano DeStefano against Shelley Berkley? Could be fun…
And the pic doesn’t really have anything to do with this post. It’s from some pics Cal Farnsworth sent me a link to awhile back, for which I am grateful. It shows some desert bighorns being transfered to better habitat by the Fraternity of Desert Bighorn. (RJ)
I’m guessing city council knows what being towed through the air by a helicopter is like.
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 and makes a joke of whatever vestiges of democratic government still exist in Nor’Town. It’s like holding a meeting in a room designed for 20 when a hundred or so folk show up, like at that last budget retreat. Oh wait, council has done that too.
UPDATE: THIS MEETING IS NOT CANCELED. SEE NEXT POST!
According to the North Las Vegas HOA Alliance folk, the special meeting at 4:30 pm of City Council is canceled. That’s the one where council was going to consider a proposal from the firefighters to take over some emergency transport services.
I guess the city has fired so many staffers, though, that it can’t make an official announcement on their webpage or use the email alert thing that the NLV police use. That system got out the news of the mayor’s town hall easy enough, too.
And after Lynnette Curtis went to all that work to do a nice write up on the proposal, too. (RJ) I’m just guessing that council, which benefits nicely from campaign contributions from the local ambulance company, had some second thoughts when that very company began to complain about the firefighters’ proposal to start carting bodies in their place:
But such [city] revenue shouldn’t come at the expense of private business, said John Wilson, local general manager of the private ambulance service that transports most of North Las Vegas’ emergency patients.
The city “is trying to fix their budget shortfall by taking revenue and jobs from the private sector and shifting it to the public sector to minimize the impact on public employees,” Wilson said. “This is sending the wrong message to the business community.”
Now, most emergency ambulance calls in North Las Vegas are handled by American Medical Response and MedicWest, both of which are owned by the same parent company, Emergency Medical Services Corp.
MedicWest handed Shari Buck $4,000 in 2006 for her council run in 2007 and EMS Management (Emergency Medical Services) coughed up $1,500 for her mayor race. They gave the same amount to William Robinson, too, apparently hedging their bets. Pretty much at the same time, too. Now I ask you, is that nice?
Anyways, I just didn’t want anybody to get the idea that the cancellation was, shall we say, unmotivated.
By the way, EMS has its corporate headquarters in Colorado. So, it that in keeping with the mayor’s suggestion that we “buy local”?
And is this the end of “Firefighters for Buck”?
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