SNARK WEEK
TOO SEXY FOR THE MEETINGThe Clark County School District Board of Trustees last week tabled dangerous talk about instituting comprehensive sex ed programs. It’s weird that the only state in the union...
View ArticleTO OUR ELECTED LEADERS IN NEVADA
Last week, our gay and lesbian friends and family got a surprising gift, courtesy of an unlikely source: the Beehive State, Utah, next door to Nevada. The state prohibition on same-sex marriages was...
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LEFT AT THE ALTERThe City of Las Vegas had thought its search for a new finance director was over, only to have their choice bolt for Fort Worth, Texas before any ink had dried on the contracts. Aaron...
View ArticleLEARNING FROM THE ARTS DISTRICT
Successful cities, the kind where interested and interesting people like to visit and live—where the regular exchange of ideas gives rise to innovation— depend on having both economic diversity and a...
View ArticleTo Our Friends, Neighbors, Frenemies, the Universe and Everyone and Everything
Two-aught-thirteen, unlike every other year in the history of ever, was a very challenging year. OK, a bit of hyperbole. It was no 1929, 1939, no 1945 or 1962 or 1974 or even, God forbid, 2001. But we...
View ArticleTragedy follows scandal, and not for the first time
The news broke Friday morning that former Clark County prosecutor Lisa Willardson was dead. It was as shockingly unexpected as it was predictable. Another attorney in a high-profile scandal found dead....
View ArticleEVERY WEEK IS SNARK WEEK
Hot air fuels global warmingThe Review-Journal, a sister publication of CityLife, opines that global warming isn’t real because it’s cold outside and winter sea ice is up from last year - when it hit a...
View ArticleTO MAYOR GOODMANAND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
First, we over here at CityLife want to thank Mayor Goodman and the members of the City Council for their service to our community. It is far from easy to balance the competing interests driving public...
View ArticleRebuild public trust
As city council members in Southern Nevada wring their hands over the prospect of finally fulfilling the voter mandate to make medical marijuana available to patients, and Sheriff Doug Gillespie...
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NORTH TOWN THROW DOWNWhile we are sure readers know North Las Vegas is on the brink of a financial disaster, the current mayor and former mayors have taken to the print pages of the local newspapers to...
View ArticleTO THE LAS VEGAS PEOPLE AND OTHERS WHO ATTENDED THE STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS
And those that didn’t attend but might have some passing interest in what the Boss had to say:So once a year those who care about the city - and by those who care, we mean public relations executives,...
View ArticleThe loss of a truth-telling voice
In this penultimate issue of the grittiest and only true alt-weekly in Las Vegas, I find it fitting to go out not with a humble whimper, but swinging wildly with the same kind of zeal for telling the...
View ArticleSNARK WEEK, Jan. 23, 2014
SIGN OF THE TIMESThis is one of those ideas that makes you think, “Why didn’t someone think of this sooner?” The Nevada Taxicab Authority has started posting banners at the airport showing estimated...
View ArticleTO WATER-BASED LIFE FORMS IN LAS VEGASAND THE OTHER PLACES ON “EARTH”
You probably haven’t noticed, but there’s something wrong with the weather.You haven’t noticed for a couple of reasons. One reason is that in Las Vegas, water does not normally fall from the sky....
View ArticleThe will of Nevada’s people taking a beating
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.–Thomas JeffersonGiven the sad news that CityLife is nearing...
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