WEEK IN REVIEW: Reporters’ Notebook

You've heard that the full-body scanners at McCarran International Airport were pretty revealing. Believe it. A reporter departing for a family vacation was asked, when exiting a scanner, what was in the left-front pocket of her jeans. "Uh ... nothing. Oh, wait. Some vitamins." Vitamins? Yup; the scanner had picked up the little tablets, and after removing them from her pocket, the reporter was wanded (left leg only) and sent on her way.

Returning home the following week, she breezed through security at Tampa International Airport. It was only when she was at the gate that she discovered she had accidentally smuggled a nearly full bottle of water right through the TSA checkpoint.

The security level of flights leaving Las Vegas? Pretty good, it seems. Flights arriving in Las Vegas? Maybe not so much.

HEIDI KNAPP RINELLA

For those of you scoring at home, this marks the third consecutive week that Secretary of State Ross Miller has landed himself in Reporter's Notebook.

The first was for something he posted in Twitter. The second was for his tweet about our mention of his tweet.

Now comes this, also from @rossjmiller on Twitter: "Consecutive twitter mentions in LVRJ's Reporter's Notebook = 2; new followers = 0."

We're not sure if that's an insult directed at him or at us, but we are willing to keep this back-and-forth going as long as Mr. Miller is.

HENRY BREAN

There was very little negativity when it came to naming Neal Smatresk UNLV's president recently. Higher education Chancellor Dan Klaich heaped praise on him, as did virtually everybody else.

Klaich said one of the few areas of concern raised by UNLV's stakeholders was that the higher education system isn't very diverse, race-wise. Klaich said he didn't know what to do about that regarding the Smatresk situation. He said Smatresk would be a great president, even though "Neal is a middle-aged white man. There's nothing we can do about that."

RICHARD LAKE