Every Tuesday evening since 1992, 30 to 50 bicycle racers from around the valley gather to practice their pack racing on a 1.1 mile course mapped around the lakes of Las Vegas.
Ice Occasions of Las Vegas creates several thousand ice sculptures every year for parties and events. We leave you with sounds from their ice sculpting freezer.
Artist and teacher Omar Ramirez developed the "You-Niverse" project - a series of community projects to enhance neighborhood participation in beautifying the community. The first of the projects is a mural that is currently being painted at the Innovations International Charter School.
Last Tuesday Sacramento voters rejected a measure that would have raised taxes to build a new arena for the Sacramento Kings. Now there's talk that the NBA franchise could move to, among others, Anaheim or Las Vegas.
Michelle Shafer, VP Communications, Sequoia Voting Systems
Prof. Ed Felten, Director, Ctr for IT Policy, Princeton U
...on the reliability and security of our voting machines
Lin Alder, Director, Citizens for Dixie's Future
Jim Eardley, Commissioner, Washington Co, Utah
Scott Hirschi, Director, Washington Co Economic Development Council
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Prof. Philip Martin, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
Jason Resnick, Western Growers Assn
...on shortages in the immigrant farm labor market
Miguel Barrientos, United Immigrant Families
Adrian Romero, Day Laborer
Prof Nik Theodore, Center for Urban Economic Dev, Univ of Illinois
...on day labor in the Las Vegas Valley and beyond
Rick Sharga, VP Marketing, RealtyTrac
Kenneth LoBene, Director, LV Field Office, HUD
Dan Ebihara, Staff Attorney, Clark County Legal Services
David Krieger, Bankruptcy Attorney, Haines & Krieger
Jay Brinkmann, VP, Research and Economics, Mortgage Bankers Assn
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Michael Mandel, Chief Economist, Business Week
Jeremy Aguero, Principal, Applied Analysis
Stanley Scott, Nevada Job Connect
Somer Hollingsworth, President & CEO,
Nevada Development Auth
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John Dougherty, Reporter, Phoenix New Times
Trooper Kevin Honea, Spokesperson, Nevada Highway Patrol
...on FLDS leader, Warren Jeffs, now in FBI custody
Prof Ward Goodenough [Ret], Anthropologist & Linguist
Roger Nelson, Chief Scientist, Waste Isolation Pilot Program
...on warnings designed to last ten millennia
Rick Barron, VP of Planning and Engineering, Astoria Homebuilders
Robert Herr, Deputy Dir, Public Works, City of Henderson
Richard Rosan, president of the Urban Land Institute
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