Reporter’s Notebook

ONE INMATE APPARENTLY WAS DISGUSTED by the nature of the crimes on Wednesday's docket in Henderson Justice Court.

The man vomited not once, but three times, mostly on the floor of the courtroom, though he managed to catch some of the prisoner's dock as well.

A bailiff said after a recess that the inmate apparently was coming off a recent heroin binge.

To Judge Rodney Burr's credit, he continued the few remaining cases on the docket, despite the ruckus caused by the other inmates struggling to get as far away as possible from the puddle of sick.

One inmate had a friendly warning to announce to the rest of the courtroom: "Cleanup on aisle one."

MIKE BLASKY

WINNING OR LOSING A CONTRACT CAN BE JOYFUL OR DEPRESSING, depending on your point on view. But Bramby Tollen, the director of purchasing for the Clark County School District, didn't mean to imply that the hiring process for architects was a downer.

"There will be tiers," she explained before clarifying that she meant different kinds of contracts, not something emotional. "T-I-E-R-S."

JAMES HAUG

LAS VEGAS MAYOR OSCAR GOODMAN WAS IN LONDON last week to celebrate British Airways' first nonstop flight from England to Las Vegas, and was treated to a special cocktail as part of the festivities.

Dubbed the "Goodman Gold Double Martini," it consists of two parts Bombay Sapphire Gin, two teaspoons of dry vermouth and two olives coated in gold.

Yep, gold. Which is fancy and all, but we'll only be impressed if British Airways starts offering it to all first-class passengers.

ALAN CHOATE

ENFORCEMENT OF SCHOOL DRESS CODES sometimes can get a little heavy-handed, parents say.

School officials are accused of cracking down on a girl for wearing a Disney jacket with ganglike colors.

As Deborah Jackson observed during a community meeting Tuesday at Booker Elementary, "I don't know of any gang members wearing Tinker Bell."

JAMES HAUG

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP OF MONOPOLY was held in Las Vegas last week.

Jim Perskie, editorial writer for the Press of Atlantic City newspaper, was not amused.

"First, who knew there was something called the Monopoly World Championship?" Perskie wrote in his blog on Friday. "And second, what the hell is it doing in Las Vegas?

"That's ours. Our board game. Our streets. And the Monopoly World Championship should be in Atlantic City."