WEEK IN REVIEW: Reporters’ notebook

Lyle Sumek, a consultant who specializes in strategic planning for local governments, used a sports metaphor Thursday during a special North Las Vegas City Council meeting to illustrate the importance of appreciating different skills and roles of employees.

"If everyone on a football team looked like me, what kind of team would you have?" asked Sumek, a husky, gray-haired man.

There was a long pause before new City Manager Timothy Hacker responded: "Slow?"

LYNNETTE CURTIS

At a luncheon Wednesday to accept one of the original battleship bells from the 1916-vintage USS Nevada, Gov. Brian Sandoval reflected on a trip he made in July to Bangor, Wash., to see the current USS Nevada, a nuclear submarine commissioned in 1986.

Despite being "a massive, massive boat," it's virtually undetectable while it stalks the world's oceans, Sandoval said.

"For someone trying to find the USS Nevada while it's out at sea, (it) is like trying to find a baseball bat buried in the state of Washington," the governor said, recalling a conversation with the sub's captain.

It's true. Just ask the Seattle Mariners.

KEITH ROGERS

As a lengthy water hearing got under way Monday in a room at the Nevada Legislature in Carson City, Chief Hearing Officer Susan Joseph-Taylor spelled out the rules and procedures.

The hearing, which will decide how much water the Southern Nevada Water Authority can pump from four rural valleys, is expected to last through mid-November.

Joseph-Taylor said that for the duration of the proceeding, no food or drink would be allowed inside the meeting room.

The one exception: water, of course.

HENRY BREAN

TWEET OF THE WEEK: @EddieTrunk (Sirius/XM radio personality) Just got a residual check for $36 for my role as a guy in a coma in HBO Autopsy a few years ago. Exactly how I feel after 5 days in Vegas!