The Review-Journal's local columnist has won your Best of Las Vegas approval more years than we care to go back and count. As always, it's well-deserved recognition for a native Las Vegan who may very well be the best pure writer in town. Add to that an encyclopedic knowledge of local history, a lust for finding out what's happening behind the headlines and the determination to never forget that it's the average, ordinary men and women who really make the world turn, and you've got a columnist who's hard to beat. R-J entertainment/restaurant writer Michael Paskevich pulled the No. 2 spot, showing, maybe, that people can disagree about Wayne Newton's appeal and still be friends.
Our Pick:
SUSAN GREENE
Our choice is a sort of life achievement award -- at least for the portion of her life she's spent here -- for the R-J's Susan Greene, who has most recently covered Clark County government with a tenacity and resourcefulness most reporters can only dream about. We hate it when we brag, but Greene has, quite simply, owned the county government beat. A few weeks ago, Greene headed northeast to keep an eye on Denver's city fathers and mothers. And while you can be sure some of the folks over on Grand Central Parkway are shedding no tears over Greene's departure, we are, and you should be, too.
