WEEK IN REVIEW: Reporters’ notebook

One of the gifts given to Mayor Oscar Goodman at his last full Las Vegas City Council meeting last week was the gavel he used to preside over meetings for the last 12 years.

"I never banged it," Goodman said. "There was at least one time during every meeting when I wanted to throw it at somebody."

ALAN CHOATE

After more than 200 Zappos employees took over the Las Vegas City Council chambers for a flash mob dance party on Wednesday, Councilman Stavros Anthony wondered if the diversion affected the online retailer's famed customer service.

"My wife just called me and told me she tried to buy something at Zappos.com, but the line was busy," he said.

ALAN CHOATE

The fight goes on between Clark County and North Las Vegas over the city's decision to flush wastewater down the county's Sloan storm channel.

North Las Vegas unleashed the flow on June 9, triggering a barrage of legal filings from both sides.

But elected leaders showed they still have a sense of humor about the issue at last week's Clean Water Coalition meeting.

At one point, Las Vegas City Councilman Steve Ross spotted a TV reporter filling a cup from the water cooler along one wall of the meeting room.

"That's from the Sloan Channel," Ross cheerfully warned, drawing a laugh from the other officials present.

HENRY BREAN

The Week in Review staff has spent several straight days dreaming up fake headlines about Anthony Weiner and mostly unpublishable poop jokes related to the North Las Vegas sewer plant dispute.

So, as much as we'd love to make fun of Assembly Bill 247, we simply don't have anything left in the tank.

Maybe you should try writing your own punch line for a change.

The new state law allows license plates and some highway use for a farm tractor or any "self-propelled implement of husbandry."

Knock yourselves out.

HENRY BREAN