Week in Review: Reporters’ Notebook

A word of advice for people who write press releases: Don't send us a release on Thursday to inform us that Friday is National Hairball Awareness Day. We generally need more than one day to prepare for something like that.

HENRY BREAN

When Christopher LaPorte first approached Mayor Oscar Goodman about his plan for a video game arcade/bar downtown, the famously technophobic Goodman "had no idea what he was talking about," the mayor said at Insert Coin's ribbon-cutting Thursday.

He did remember one of his sons playing Pac-Man, and he told his son at the time not to waste time with it, to study and become a doctor instead. That's what happened, but the mayor wondered if he had sent his boy down the wrong path.

"He's working," Goodman said. "Mr. LaPorte is playing. He had the right idea."

ALAN CHOATE

OVERHEARD ON THE SCANNER: "Is the hooker on the right? With the high heels? Jay was going to ask her how much."

Things are different in Nevada's gold mining country.

In Lander County, for example, the school district owns some vacant land outside Battle Mountain, and for the past several years the small district has leased the property for exploration by a Canadian mining company.

Interim superintendent Steve Larsgaard said the school district has gotten enough revenue from the lease to fund a small scholarship for local high school students.

Larsgaard says he is hoping for an even bigger financial windfall, however: "If they find gold up there, we'll be sitting pretty."

HENRY BREAN

TWEET OF THE WEEK: @charliesheen (announcing plans for a party in Las Vegas after his show in San Francisco last week) Mortals: Meet the Warlock.

BONUS TWEET: @LynnetteCurtis (Review-Journal reporter) Just ran into Steve Wynn coming out of spa at Wynn. Nearly 70-yr-old men should not wear spandex shorts. #imjustsayin'