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Anti-Demolition and Renewal – A First in Las Vegas!

Blogs, Blogging, and Podcasts, Las Vegas, Nevada, Political and Social Awareness
Posted July 16th, 2008 by Christopher - Add comment

Okay, sure, I’m just playing into the general perspective people have about Las Vegas’ architectural heritage (or lack thereof,) but it is true that things tend to get built, used, aged, and torn down around here. It’s nice to see other cities repurposing older buildings for new, more modern uses. We’re definitely an anomaly as far as the primary reason for growth goes and that will, of course, cause things to be developed and redeveloped in rather conspicuous ways, but surely everything need not be demolished entirely, right?

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Nevada’s Interstate “Police Partnerships”

Blogs, Blogging, and Podcasts, Las Vegas, Nevada, Political and Social Awareness, Stories
Posted March 27th, 2008 by Christopher - 3 comments

There is probably a slicker, less eyebrow-raising name for what is going on between Nevada and a few other states, including, but probably not limited to, Utah. I was raised in an era and in a country that seems to be a different place in many respects, nowadays. There was a time when, for instance, if you had a ticket from some three horse town in another part of your own state, it was up to you and that jurisdiction to work out the payment. It was not going to affect you where you lived unless the ticket happened to have been state police.

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I Ain’t Loving These Odds, Baby…

Blogs, Blogging, and Podcasts, Las Vegas, Neighboring Cities, Nevada, Outdoors and Other Interests, Political and Social Awareness, Weather
Posted February 12th, 2008 by Christopher - 3 comments

Lake Mead I knew it was dry but this is crazy! Brothas’ gotta drink out here, yo!

When I first moved to Las Vegas a number of years ago we were already at like year three or four of what is now like an eight or nine year-long “drought.” I remember thinking, “wow – drought in a desert? It’s supposed to be normally dry. It must be like crazy dry.”

Then some other interesting, counterintuitive things happened. Aside from hearing mention a few times of the local area being ahead on average rainful, a huge amount of snow fell up on Mount Charleston.

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Las Vegas Tax Services – For Everyone!

Adult Entertainment, Blogs, Blogging, and Podcasts, Las Vegas, Nevada, Political and Social Awareness, Sin City, Stories, Vices
Posted February 10th, 2008 by Christopher - 1 comment

I Las Vegas, with so many, uh, different sorts of occupations, there exists a market to reach out to these “service industry” people and provide solid, legitimate, financial planning, legal, and tax preparation services.

We don’t discriminate in our fair city. We embrace! You see a hooker – we see an upwardly-mobile young professional making over $1000 per day and in need of some serious tax and financial advice!

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