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It’s 3 a.m. Thursday and noisy because of the trucks roaring by on the freeway. The homeless who live here are used to this and sleep right through. Most also are unaware that they have company: three homeless “guides” and a beat cop, have been sent to count them.
Dennis Oppenheim, the artist behind the neon paintbrushes downtown, died Saturday. He was 72. The Las Vegas paintbrushes sit unlit on Charleston Boulevard at the intersections of Casino Center Boulevard and Fourth Street. They were one of Oppenheim’s final projects but went unfinished as he quietly battled liver cancer.
A Review-Journal survey conducted online in December and early January found that 55.5 percent of local businesses, most of them smaller operations, said they’ll keep staffing at current levels in 2011, while 21.1 percent said they’ll hire additional employees. Another 10.3 percent said they might cut workers in the year.
It would have been easy to mistake Ashlie Chumley for a first-time mom, considering the way she dressed her new teddy bear Saturday at a mass baby shower for military families. After all, she put the diaper on OVER the bear’s bodysuit.
At last, local businesses say they have high hopes for Southern Nevada’s recession-battered economy. A recent online survey from the Review-Journal found that a majority of company owners and managers expect improved sales and a broader economic resurgence in the Las Vegas Valley in 2011.
Dr. Godwin Maduka, of the Henderson branch office of the Las Vegas Pain Institute, has been accused of leading a militia in attacks in his home village in Nigeria, but he disputes the allegations.
