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Bill gives mine to Henderson to redevelop

WASHINGTON — A bill introduced Wednesday in Congress would convey 948 acres of abandoned mine property in Henderson to a city agency for cleanup and redevelopment.

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Downtown Neighborhood News

Find out what’s going on downtown, from Lied Discovery Children’s Museum, 833 Las Vegas Blvd. North, being named one of 500 finalists in Toyota’s 100 Cars for Good program to the Hispanic Museum of Nevada’s day camp program.

Downtown residents find ways to beat the heat

According to the National Weather Service, July 2010 was the hottest month ever recorded in Las Vegas since record keeping began in 1937. The high reached triple digits every day that month, with a sweltering average temperature of 96.2 degrees. That’s what happens when you plop down civilization in the middle of a 25,000-square-mile desert. Thanks, Mojave. But there are ways to cope with the oven-esque atmosphere.

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