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 [...]
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Redshirters will have fond memories of the guest speaker for this month's meeting of the North Las Vegas Alliance of Home Owner Associations and Concerned folk (View,NrTown). The Agenda: DATE: THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 PLACE: ALIANTE LIBRARY— 2400 DEER SPRINGS WAY. TEL. 839-2980 (For directions if needed) or call Cynthia at 438-5005 [...] A bomb–no, wait, local news call it an improvised explosive device (IED)–blew up in Nor'Town last week. And it wasn't even done in the Ward 2 'hood where the Monger lurks, but up near the hoity-toity in Aliante. (Fox5,Sun) Course, I don't think we need the local TeeVee news telling us it was [...] Steven Horsford has been elected by his fellow Democratic state senators to lead the state senate Democratic caucus. He will take over for Dina Titus, who has decided to whup Jon Porter over in Congressional District 2. (RJ) Whether he will be minority or majority leader of the state senate depends on the outcome of [...] The official period for signing up to run for political offices for the November election has begun, and you can keep track of who’s signed in over at the Clark County election site. Course, Nor’Towners are waiting for the real fun of the city council and mayor race in 2009 when we have that silly [...] Don’t forget: this Saturday, May 3rd, the I Scream Agin Apartments Community Ice Cream, community-building meetin’ will be at Seastrand park, at Centennial, between El Dorado and Revere from 1pm – 4pm. No, "I Scream Agin Apartments" isn’t the official name. Those of you near by various planned apartment projects will [...] Nor’Towners were greeted with news of yet more gun play at area schools today. One Alicia Mallard, apparently fed up with bullies picking on her daughter, allegedly pulled a gun on the tormentors. (RJ,Fox5) At about the same time, three teens who are accused of shooting up a school bus stop have pleaded not guilty [...] A couple of snippets from some big city papers from the coasts: Red-shirted union representatives are fanning out to workers’ homes to make sure they back Obama. One recent day, union worker Enrique Vicke drove his truck to depressed neighborhoods in North Las Vegas, where boxy stucco houses sit on dirt yards. Several union members, [...] Two different parts of Nor"Town faced the same question at a very crowded North Las Vegas Planning Commission meeting last week: should they accept more high density development in their neighborhoods? The neighbors said "no." The developers and the commission said "yes." In the first case, the Opus Condominiums wanted to place condominiums up around [...] Councilperson Shari Buck is the current leader in campaign bucks for the Mayoral Race next year. Campaign finance reports are available over on the North Las Vegas site, and you’d better enjoy ‘em because you won’t see a thing until next year in January because of Nevada’s crappy campaign finance reporting laws. Next year, you’ll [...] |
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