The Southern Nevada Water Authority has taken on its first tenant and plans to lease more unused space at its downtown headquarters. The valley’s wholesale water supplier has about 30,000 square feet of vacant office space scattered throughout the five floors it owns in the Molasky Corporate Center, a 14-story office complex at City Parkway and Ogden Avenue, southwest of the Spaghetti Bowl.
Good news for Nevadans: About 90 percent of the 60 candidates who responded to a survey say they support or even plan to introduce bills in 2013 to make the Legislature always operate in the open. The bad news: Only 12 incumbent legislators responded to the survey.
The first-ever Las Vegas Valley Community Convention for the Common Good was equal parts pep rally, revival meeting and town hall gathering. The Tuesday evening event at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas student center ballroom drew more than 1,500 people interested in organizing a broad-based, interdenominational effort to address social problems facing the valley.
“The Facts Hurt: A State-By-State Injury Prevention Report” has recommended that Nevada and other states either enact or fully enforce 10 public safety measures, including one requiring children to wear bicycle helmets and another that would allow police to stop and cite drivers when seat belts are not worn. The report stated that Nevada had the 14th highest rate of injury-related deaths at 71.3 per 100,000 people. The national rate is 57.9 per 100,000. New Jersey had the lowest rate of injury-related deaths at 36.1 per 100,000 people and New Mexico had the highest at 97.8.
