The world’s most powerful data center on Tuesday hosted the debut of a small Las Vegas startup company.
CHICAGO — Bishop Gorman High School boys basketball star Shabazz Muhammad was named Most Valuable Player of the McDonald’s All-American Game on Wednesday night at the United Center. And he made more news after the game, announcing he has trimmed the list of colleges he is considering to UCLA, Kentucky and Duke. Muhammad, a 6-foot-6-inch senior wing, had also been weighing scholarship offers from UNLV and Kansas as college basketball’s April 11 signing day approaches.
Standing on the courthouse steps, Kathleen Vermillion again defended herself against allegations that she misused money from the charity she founded to help homeless youth. She pointed to a voluntary lie detector test she took and criticized an audit of the Homeless Youth Foundation that flagged a number of questionable financial transactions.
First Amendment restrictions, a closed circuit TV system and a stronger police presence on the Strip are among recommendations from a work group studying issues that will be discussed Tuesday by the County Commission.
Las Vegas City Manager Betsy Fretwell says the city is starting to recover from the Great Recession, with more money available to restore some services. Fretwell presented a tentative 2013 budget plan to the City Council that identifies $454.2 million in revenue and proposes $464.6 million in spending, leaving a shortfall of $10.4 million that could be covered with reserve funds. The council voted unanimously to adopt the plan.
First lady Michelle Obama and her two daughters were visiting Las Vegas Wednesday night as part of a family trip out West. Earlier Wednesday, Obama, Malia and Sasha visited Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.
Young Hispanic adults whose parents brought them illegally to the United States as children stopped in Carson City on Wednesday to secure Gov. Brian Sandoval’s support for the federal Dream Act. Sandoval was in Las Vegas though, so they will try to talk with him before continuing their 3,000-mile Campaign for the American Dream walk. They expect to reach Washington, D.C., just before November elections.
Nevada’s Supreme Court has taken up an appeal of a judge’s decision to declare the state’s medical marijuana law unconstitutional. The high court last week asked for a full briefing by Clark County prosecutors and defense attorneys about the law, which District Judge Donald Mosley called ” absurd” and “ridiculous.”
With state and local governments looking for every penny of uncollected taxes and fees, the Highway Patrol in April will embark on a campaign to check whether residents have Nevada license plates on motor vehicles. Instead of just a $250 fine for not registering their vehicle, they face a fine of $1,000 if they avoid changing their registration for six months or more. Under the old law, they had 60 days to change. Now they have only 30 days.
The Justice Department has filed lawsuits in five cities, including Las Vegas, seeking injunctions against the company that operates Instant Tax Service and against five franchise owners. The complaints allege ITS Financial franchisees file fraudulent tax returns to maximize customers’ refunds and extract large fees from customers’ refund checks.
Paul Mathews Jr. cut to the heart of what members of the governor’s Gaming Policy Committee hope to address over the next five months: Nevada needs to capitalize on the rapidly changing Internet gaming market. Online gaming offers Nevada the best available opportunity to grow its economy, said Mathews, a founder of the Internet technology provider Wagerworks.
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