Reporters’ Notebook

An article about Las Vegas corrections officers last week referred to "corrections workers," and at least one reader didn't like that.

"These men and women went to an academy to earn the opportunity to be officers of the law, not workers of the law," the reader complained. "Would you call a Marine a gun worker or a tank worker?

"I bet you really enjoy your job as an article writer too, right? Or would you rather be called a journalist?"

Either is fine, actually. In fact, given the state of the economy and the newspaper industry, you can call us pretty much anything you like, as long as we can continue to call ourselves "employed."

ALAN CHOATE

Henderson Assistant City Manager Bristol Ellington experienced a waking workplace nightmare on Monday.

As a city spokesman later explained, Ellington sent out a one word response -- "Ouch!!" -- to what he thought was a humorous e-mail exchange among friends. Instead, he inadvertently attached his reply to a city press release about a gruesome car accident and sent it to dozens of people, many of them journalists.

Fortunately for Ellington, the city's e-mail system has a recall feature that allowed him to delete the offending message from the in-boxes of city workers. Unfortunately for Ellington, the recall feature does not work outside the city's computer network.

What the local media got was the original "Ouch!!" message, followed by an e-mail that read, "Bristol Ellington would like to recall the message, 'Fatal accident.' "

We bet you would, Mr. Ellington. We bet you would.

HENRY BREAN

Candidates are starting to line up to replace Oscar Goodman as mayor. Will his wife, Carolyn, be one of them, as Goodman himself once speculated?

If no one who steps up appears to be as dedicated to revitalizing downtown as he is, Goodman said, "I would try to lean on her" to run.

"But," he added, "she's never listened to me in 48 years."

ALAN CHOATE