Guppy Sludge Cakes

Others have talking points, quick hits, or gleanettes. Nor’Towners are stuck with Sludge Cakes!

So, what’s new?

• Nor’Town City Council will add some fees to Code Enforcement violations to help fill the budget gap. (Sun) Residents will no doubt be surprised to hear that there is still such a thing as a Code Enforcement Officer, given the last sighting dates from the mid-1960′s.
• Nor’Town City Council takes another shot at getting the state to pay for libraries. (RJ)
• Nor’Town Council officially marks 1/3rd completion of the first phase of North Fifth Street. (Sun) Not familiar with North Fifth? Well try this: Drive north from Alexander to Craig on North Fifth and your axle will remember for you. And if you keep going far enough you’ll find an empty piece of ground called Goett’s Lament. Others call it Little Switzerland cuz it’s owned pretty much by Credit Suisse. Oh, okay. Nobody calls it that.
• The endangered Moapa Dace seems to finally met its end in the recent fire at Moapa Springs. Spokesfolks for the Center for Biological Diversity are claiming that even if flame retardant hasn’t wiped out the Ice Age fish, plans to pump the aquifer will probably finish them off. (KLAS) The fish, affectionately called “guppies” by ever-sensitive Clark County Commission Tom Collins may have bigger worries. Apparently the commissioner ran through the creek containing the critters several times in his SUV just in case he missed any. (RJ)
• Nor’Townie State Senator Steven Horsford is shutting down what looked like a sweet deal for folks who wanted to get more up close and personal with him. He sent out a fund-raising letter offering all sorts of goodies if you would just throw some money at his political action committee, unimaginatively named Victory 2010. For $25,000 you got dinner with Horsford and other state senate committee chairs. (NNB,My4News) No telling what you would get for larger amounts, but it seems to me it should at least involve some hookers and a vat of Jello. At bare minimum.
• The City’s Park and Recreation Advisory Board is not officially in rebellion over possible budget cuts to Parks, claims chair. (VN)
• However, City Council thinks that $31,200 for their car allowances is well worth the staffer let go to pay for them. (RJ)
• New boss of the Norftown Chamber of Commerce, Michael Varney, is wondering, after the Chamber loses half of its 600 members to the recession, whether Nor’Town’s glass is half empty, or half full. (RJ,LVBN) No news yet if he would like to stomp on the endangered Bear Poppy, like his predecessor.
• City nearly kills with kindness. (KLAS)