A new company, Nevada Pigeon Control, aims to eventually rid the Las Vegas Valley of pigeons. Instead of killing them, the company has created a temporary sanctuary in an industrial area near Cheyenne Avenue and Commerce Street. The sanctuary is the brainchild of Nephi Oliva, a local musician and songwriter who got tired of all the pigeons coo-cooing outside his house.
Fighting the pigeon problem
Once again, many Nevada legislators demonstrate that if they have to choose between what the voters want and what their political consultants want, about half side with the ones who brought them to the party: the consultants.
WASHINGTON — Two days after the elections last November, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told Sen. Joseph Lieberman he would be stripped of his Homeland Security Committee chairmanship, punishment for trashing Barack Obama at the Republican National Convention.
Some Clark County commissioners question why the firefighters’ union refuses to trim its pay raises the way other unions have in an impending budget crunch.
To promote the development of alternative fuels, which unfortunately cost a pantload, Congress in 2007 expanded the tax credit for using non-fossil fuels, offering firms 50 cents a gallon to blend renewable fuels such as ethanol with traditional fossil fuels like diesel.
