WEEK IN REVIEW: Reporters’ notebook

the Silver State has a new tourism slogan: “Nevada — A World Within. A State Apart.”

We weren’t terribly impressed with it at first, either. Then we heard that some out-of-state advertising firm got paid $3 million to come up with it.

Suddenly, everyone here at Week in Review headquarters wanted to start writing slogans.

Here are a few of our suggestions:

■ Nevada: We Need Your Money to Survive.

■ Nevada: More Than 800 Nuclear Explosions Can’t Be Wrong.

■ Nevada: Where God Dumped the Leftover Dirt

■ Nevada: Without Gambling We’re Wyoming

■ Nevada: No, No, No, It’s NevAda, Not NevAWda. NevAda! Oh, Forget It.

■ Nevada: We Keep Raising the Speed Limit, But Everyone Keeps Coming Back.

■ Nevada: Now 93 Percent Tremor Monster Free.

■ Nevada: Las Vegas, Reno and Lots of Dry Brown Pointy Stuff in Between.

■ Nevada: Get Away To It All.

Actually, that last one is pretty good.

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher left her mark on the world — and on the Regional Justice Center. A 1988 quote from Thatcher, who died Monday at age 87, is engraved on the outside of the county courthouse.

It reads: “We are all responsible for our own actions. We cannot blame society if we disobey the law. We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others.”

FRANCIS McCABE

TWEET OF THE WEEK: @bencranegolf (professional golfer Ben Crane, who did not qualify for the Masters this year) I’ve had at least 5 followers tell me that they are picking me to win the Masters. And you wonder how Vegas can afford such nice hotels