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Going through the motions at the school tax hearings

In a perfect world, legislators would convene hearings to ask probing questions on important issues, carefully weigh the facts and opinions from the experts and ordinary folks on the matter at hand,...
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Tupac Shakur: Six fingers short of his FourSquare ranking.

Where are you checking in, Las Vegas?

Gleaning the most popular local Foursquare check-ins, it's hard to get an overall picture of people's destination tastes.

FourSquare is the social app that enables users to "check in" at a...

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Sequester is gonna suck

This time, it looks like Congress and the White House really might take America -- and Nevada -- over the fiscal cliff. Those pillars of government agreed in the Budget Control Act of 2011 to deliver...
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Tilting at pot laws

It’s like a great white whale for drug-reform advocates: making pot legal in Nevada. Even Nevada's medical marijuana initiative -- a move that in California caused “dispensaries” to sprout like...
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World news ...

... but perhaps not in the English-language news world?A video from Las Vegas is getting traction in the Spanish-speaking world. Diego Santiago, from the Las Vegas Univision affiliate, is doing an on...
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Alan Aleman in Washington D.C. for the State of the Union address, courtesy photo

'We came for a better future': A conversation with DACA-recipient Alan Aleman

Twenty-year-old Alan Aleman was the first Las Vegan to receive a work permit thorough the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a federal program that allows undocumented young people who came...

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Courtesy: Atomic Liquors

Owners find hidden safe at Atomic Liquors

A few weeks back, Atomic Liquors co-owner Derek Stonebarger told CityLife he had discovered a safe under the flooring in the back left corner of the bar, near Barbra Streisand's favorite seat, but...

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Participants at the 2012 Las Vegas Pride parade (FILE PHOTO: BILL HUGHES)

Poll: Nevada one of the gayest states

For once, Nevada ranks high on a U.S. poll — and no, we're not talking about the dropout rate.

The Silver State is the ninth queerest in the union (which, for the sake of the poll, includes...

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At Tuesday's County Commission meeting

Trash talk in the county

The battle of the trash bins has been settled. Sort of. Maybe.After more than four hours of debate on Tuesday, and a decade of wrangling leading up to the meeting, a split Clark County Commission...
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Is the county GOP infatuated with a British ichthyologist?

The Clark County Republican Party is selling tickets to a Feb. 16 event called the Lincoln-Regan Day Dinner. We’d guess this was a misspelling of “Reagan,” as in Ronald, but it is repeated three...
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