Reporter’s Notebook

OVERHEARD ON THE SCANNER: "Report of someone outside the store begging for money. Negative clothes."

CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICIALS wonder if federal stimulus money for education will ever arrive, but they said they're getting signals that it will come eventually.

"Every day we hear from a vendor wanting to help us spend it," Superintendent Walt Rulffes said.

JAMES HAUG

OVERHEARD ON THE SCANNER: (Person 1) "Is that your final answer, or would you like to phone a friend?"

(Person 2) "I'd like to phone her friend, but that's not going to happen."

LAS VEGAS CITY ATTORNEY BRAD JERBIC quoted Spider-Man during a legal proceeding last week -- the dramatic line, "With great power comes great responsibility."

That got us thinking ...

Movie lines we'd like to hear in court:

• Gladiator: "Are you not entertained?" (Shouted, preferably while brandishing a sword.)

• Office Space: "Peter, watch out for your cornhole, bud."

• The Untouchables: "They pull a knife; you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital; you send one of his to the morgue."

• Superbad: "I am McLovin."

• Pulp Fiction: "And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

• Die Hard: "Yippee kai-ay, (maternal admirer)."

ALAN CHOATE

LAS VEGAS POLICE HAVE JOINED TWITTERVERSE, as the kids say. The glory of it all is that folks can respond directly to the cops with an @reply.

Here are a few responses from some of their 807 Twitter followers, according to Sgt. John Loretto:

• On the cops Twittering: "Omg, thank you so much for going online with Twitter. It'll be nice to get updates to my mobile"

• On officer Bill Cassell's test tweet promising future tweets: "Way to go, Bill. I will be awaiting with bated breath"

• On using Twitter to fight crime: "What the hey? Who knows? You could help find bad guys"

MAGGIE LILLIS

AFTER REP. DINA TITUS, D-NEV., accepted the Outstanding Democrat of the Year award at a gathering of the Paradise Democratic Club, her husband, UNLV professor Tom Wright, was invited to say a few words. He demurred.

"I lecture for a living," he said. "This could be a long, drawn-out affair."

Wright thanked the group, praised his wife and got off the stage.

MOLLY BALL

SENATE MAJORITY LEADER HARRY REID, D-NEV., is one of the most powerful people in Washington, but he knows there are limits to his power.

During a town hall meeting on renewable energy in Las Vegas, someone's phone kept ringing.

"I disagreed with (former President) Bush on virtually everything, except cell phones," Reid said. "One of the things he demanded was no cell phones when he was talking. I'm not the president, so I can't demand that."

MOLLY BALL