Reporters’ Notebook

YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN LAS VEGAS MAYOR OSCAR GOODMAN with a couple of showgirls on his arm. What you may not know is that his wife, Carolyn, expects a similar perk as Las Vegas' first lady.

"I have asked him every time, 'Where are my men?'" she said last week at a renewal of wedding vows ceremony held to pump up the local chapel industry. "I have never, one time, walked around with a hunk."

ALAN CHOATE

UNDER FIRE FOR NOT INCLUDING COMMUNITY INPUT on a plan to improve student diversity and academics at six schools in West Las Vegas, Clark County School District Superintendent Walt Rulffes said the criticism was premature.

"I hate to phrase it like this, but it was a proposed plan to develop a plan," he said.

JAMES HAUG

THE HOMECOMING THEME FOR SILVERADO HIGH SCHOOL is "Silverado Goes Global."

The dance is scheduled for Oct. 24, which falls on United Nations Day, but Student Council President Desirae Acosta, 17, said the timing was a happy coincidence.

"That's how amazing we are," Desirae told school board members.

JAMES HAUG

BRIAN GREENSPUN, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER OF THE LAS VEGAS SUN and a big-time contributor to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, told a story at the university about how he was approached several years ago to donate money to build what is now Greenspun Hall on the campus.

"It's a good thing they caught us a couple, three, four years ago," joked Greenspun, whose money comes primarily from the now-money-losing areas of real estate and newspapers. "Never would have happened today."

RICHARD LAKE

REMEMBER THE SEPT. 3 STORY ABOUT DISGRACED CLARK COUNTY COMMISSIONER DARIO HERRERA, who landed a job just five days after serving 50 months in prison for accepting bribes -- and other, um, perks -- from a strip club owner?

One reader certainly does.

"I have been unemployed since the end of March and have not been hired," states a recent e-mail to the newspaper.

"It must be nice to serve time and have such great connections when so few companies in Southern Nevada are hiring."

HENRY BREAN

CARL ROWE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE LAS VEGAS HOUSING AUTHORITY, was named interim director of a new regional public housing agency in a unanimous vote Tuesday by its freshly formed governing board.

But Rowe also won something that has eluded plenty of other public officials: the support of notorious local gadfly Beatrice Turner.

"We know what we got" with Rowe, Turner told the board.

"I'm too old to have to break in any more executive directors. If I have to whoop him every now and then, that's what I'll do."

LYNNETTE CURTIS