A few weeks ago, we asked Las Vegas Review-Journal readers to submit their secrets to burger bliss. Just in time for Memorial Day, check out how your fellow grillmasters have been jazzing up their creations with seasonings and cheeses and vegetables and more.
Asian Fresh, MGM Grand, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South, received 18 demerits May 9. Violations included scoop handles stored in food product. GRADE: B. The facility was reinspected May 10, received one demerit and was upgraded to an A.
Sales gains and new brands entering the Las Vegas market signal that the city’s retail sector is gaining momentum. That’s the word from RECon 2012, the global retail real estate convention hosted by the International Council of Shopping Centers. It wraps up today at the Las Vegas Convention Center. This year’s show attracted about 31,000 shopping center professionals, about 1,000 more than in 2011.
Bri Higgins had a year to remember for Foothill’s girls basketball team. The senior post player added yet another memory Tuesday night.
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.
