Judge Tara Clark Newberry sentenced a drunk drive to nearly the maximum penalty in fatal crash. [8NewsNow]
What’s the deal with grass lining Summerlin streets amid conservation rules? [KTNV]
Las Vegas public safety chief accused of trying to control social media comments in new lawsuit. [KTNV]
Speaking of social media, to what extent are you engaging in social media on a professional level? Do you separate your professional from personal engagement? Does your firm actively use social media?
I’ve lived in Las Vegas my whole life and I cannot remember a time that the community wasn’t talking about a water crisis. Yet here we are. The little bit of grass and greenery that we do have is the only thing that makes this desolate barren wasteland minimally tolerable. If the problem is now so horribly severe that we cannot water any grass at all, then maybe we need to just flat out stop growing. Who wants to live entirely on sand, rocks, and pavement?
My wife and I moved here ~20 years ago from a central state with tons of grass and trees. All of that requires water. With that water comes major thunderstorms causing flooding, hurricanes, and tornadoes. All of which I personally experienced on multiple occasions in the ~30 years I lived there before moving here. I do miss the grass, but I absolutely don’t miss the major thunderstorms, losing the roof on my house from a tornado, and the hurricanes causing lost power, a week of shear panic where food and water disappears from the shelves for an extended time (except for H.E.B. – awesome company), and flooding. So hell yes to the ‘No major natural disasters’ part.
I have lived here for about 90% of my post-college life. When I have made business trips to other parts of the country, particularly the locales where tornadoes and snowstorms and such happen, it always shocks me how the sidewalks are rolled up by about 6:00. Also the food sucks. I have never had worse slumgullion than in the midwestern states. It is nice and green though!
Also born and raised here and I have always thought that the desert holds the same amount of allure and beauty as the mountains, beaches or forests. I love it. Always have.
The blight of solar farms that can be seen from the highways kills me every time that I leave town. Kills me and breaks my heart.
“Solar Blight”
Agree. I once did a back of envelope calculation of the solar necessary to power Las Vegas.
It was a swath of solar panels a mile wide, placed on both sides of the I-15 about 30 miles in length.
I was referring to visual blight. Coming from a construction background, i can tell you that the cost to move the panels (the efficacy of which was not addressed by my comments) out of the view of the highways was negligible, especially given the gubment contractual / subsidy nature of the projects.
I love the sensation of a breeze chilled by the moisture rising from newly irrigated grass as I walk my dog through the park on a summer night. I love driving home from the Strip after a night of unparalleled entertainment and dining, at a high rate of speed with the windows down and the sunroof open. I love beauty and stillness of Red Rock, regardless of season. I love having vast expanses of superhighway connecting us to other metropolises north and south, where you can bury your foot and the speedometer needle to see what she’ll do when there is not another soul in sight. I love the rolling color from blue to yellow and white as native plants and trees start to bloom in the spring, heading into summer. I love that if I hang something up to dry, it’s ready to go in 5 minutes, and along those lines it’s a dry heat so I don’t have to worry that humidity will soak my white dress shirt through so you can see my (male) nipples, no matter how hot it gets. I love that we are such good stewards of resources that Vegas uses 55% less water per capita than 20 years ago, and despite stratospheric growth, we use less water than we did then, unlike the bozos in Arizona and California. I love watching the sun rise or set over the Strip from either side of town. I could go on and on.
we can have fake grass, to which the quality of same is almost as similar as the real thing. As for other greenery, there are many plants and trees that are green and water friendly. Sagos, palm trees, etc.
Right? Maybe stop building so many new houses. Who bothers with common sense these days though. Apparently the folks from Ohio and Indiana desperately need to come here. Ha.
The true irony behind the story by Reporter Spears and Channel 13 is that if the LVVWD gets involved, they will fine the association for excess use, watering out of time restrictions etc. Then the Summerlin Master Assoc. or whichever entity is in charge of that section of grass, will pass that little (or large) fee onto the homeowners, just like the whistleblower Karen in the story.
I have a theory about people living in the desert. My theory is that we were not supposed to live here. There’s no easy way to grow food, very little natural water, and enough ambient heat between mid-May and mid-September to kill us. We are able to exist here because of air conditioning, alterations to the natural water system, and trucking. Mother nature has been trying to tell us; but we just won’t listen.
So we employ technology to survive. Reminds me of something. Just a second…. Tip of my tongue. Oh yeah, everywhere else on earth. People have been innovating and adapting to this environment since the Nuwuvi settled – and they didn’t have AC. That’s what people do everywhere. They don’t just lie down in the forest, or the meadow or the river or the dust.
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August 20, 2025 12:03 pm
I try and keep my socials pretty sanitized. I have lost a lot of friends in the past due to things I posted around election time regarding politics. I would not want to loose prospective clients due to my conservative values. So I made an “alt account” not traceable to me in order to post all that stuff and upset the libs.
Fox News uncles cannot stop themselves from posting on social media. It’s a compulsion. It’s not your fault. Proud of you for managing your addiction by creating the alt account.
Let’s be very honest with ourselves. “Conservative Values” aren’t things that would make you lose clients, nor are they things that you’d need an ironically-named “alt” account to post. The things you post that would lose you clients are the new far-right values that have become the rallying cry of US conservatism. Believe it or not, most people don’t want to do business with folks who support fasicm and far-right values. See, e.g., Tesla bleeding customers worldwide due to Elon’s amplification of fascism and hate speech; see also World War 2, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc.
Today’s “Conservatism” is what we have been patiently waiting for all of these years and your calling it “fascism” just tells us that you really don’t know what that word means.
Just like you castrated the meaning of “racist”, “homophobe” and “misogynist”.
In simple terms, fascism is a far-right, ultranationalist political ideology and movement that emphasizes a strong, centralized government led by a dictator, often with a strong emphasis on militarism and suppression of opposition. It prioritizes the nation and its perceived greatness above individual rights, often promoting a sense of national decline and the need for a powerful leader to restore it.
I’m certain you have been “waiting for it for years,” likely since the Nuremberg Trials. You’re already well on your way there with the military takeover of DC, the Florida concentration camps for anyone the administration doesn’t like, the deportations without due process, the dismantling of personal freedoms, the demonization of non-white, non-male, non-Christians, the attack on the national educational system, the subversion to our Russian enemy, the glorification of a grifting felon who wears more makeup than the drag queens he purports to hate, the elevation of white supremacist values into national office, etc.
Just be honest, you’re just happy to see the USA on its way to becoming Nazi Germany.
>I would not want to loose prospective clients due to my conservative values.
That’s your Free Market God at work!
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August 20, 2025 1:09 pm
does LInkedin count as social media? Both my firm and I use it for posting professional stuff. I have a twitter profile and used to post work stuff and personal stuff but have pretty much stopped posting. I almost never post about work on facebook. I see some people killing it with TikTok like @legaldad but haven’t figured out a way to do it myself.
TikTok seems like a lot of work. My understanding is you have to create content on a very frequent, regular basis to become and stay relevant under the algorithm. It seems like a hamster wheel where you create content for someone else (TikTok) to make money.
I’ve lived in Las Vegas my whole life and I cannot remember a time that the community wasn’t talking about a water crisis. Yet here we are. The little bit of grass and greenery that we do have is the only thing that makes this desolate barren wasteland minimally tolerable. If the problem is now so horribly severe that we cannot water any grass at all, then maybe we need to just flat out stop growing. Who wants to live entirely on sand, rocks, and pavement?
There are other places. Ohio and indiana have lots of grass and trees and cheap housing too. Some of us actually enjoy the desert.
really? what does one enjoy about the desert?
Year round golf.
Sunsets.
No major natural disasters.
My wife and I moved here ~20 years ago from a central state with tons of grass and trees. All of that requires water. With that water comes major thunderstorms causing flooding, hurricanes, and tornadoes. All of which I personally experienced on multiple occasions in the ~30 years I lived there before moving here. I do miss the grass, but I absolutely don’t miss the major thunderstorms, losing the roof on my house from a tornado, and the hurricanes causing lost power, a week of shear panic where food and water disappears from the shelves for an extended time (except for H.E.B. – awesome company), and flooding. So hell yes to the ‘No major natural disasters’ part.
No hurricanes, tornadoes, only a little snow, and few floods. Grocery stores are open 7 days a week and some are open until midnight or beyond.
I have lived here for about 90% of my post-college life. When I have made business trips to other parts of the country, particularly the locales where tornadoes and snowstorms and such happen, it always shocks me how the sidewalks are rolled up by about 6:00. Also the food sucks. I have never had worse slumgullion than in the midwestern states. It is nice and green though!
*Except for Chicago.
Natural disaster that will shutdown the Las Vegas economy – NO WATER
Also born and raised here and I have always thought that the desert holds the same amount of allure and beauty as the mountains, beaches or forests. I love it. Always have.
The blight of solar farms that can be seen from the highways kills me every time that I leave town. Kills me and breaks my heart.
“Solar Blight”
Agree. I once did a back of envelope calculation of the solar necessary to power Las Vegas.
It was a swath of solar panels a mile wide, placed on both sides of the I-15 about 30 miles in length.
Sounds pretty modest. Let’s do it.
“Blight?”
What would you prefer, coal-fired plants?
I was referring to visual blight. Coming from a construction background, i can tell you that the cost to move the panels (the efficacy of which was not addressed by my comments) out of the view of the highways was negligible, especially given the gubment contractual / subsidy nature of the projects.
I love the sensation of a breeze chilled by the moisture rising from newly irrigated grass as I walk my dog through the park on a summer night. I love driving home from the Strip after a night of unparalleled entertainment and dining, at a high rate of speed with the windows down and the sunroof open. I love beauty and stillness of Red Rock, regardless of season. I love having vast expanses of superhighway connecting us to other metropolises north and south, where you can bury your foot and the speedometer needle to see what she’ll do when there is not another soul in sight. I love the rolling color from blue to yellow and white as native plants and trees start to bloom in the spring, heading into summer. I love that if I hang something up to dry, it’s ready to go in 5 minutes, and along those lines it’s a dry heat so I don’t have to worry that humidity will soak my white dress shirt through so you can see my (male) nipples, no matter how hot it gets. I love that we are such good stewards of resources that Vegas uses 55% less water per capita than 20 years ago, and despite stratospheric growth, we use less water than we did then, unlike the bozos in Arizona and California. I love watching the sun rise or set over the Strip from either side of town. I could go on and on.
we can have fake grass, to which the quality of same is almost as similar as the real thing. As for other greenery, there are many plants and trees that are green and water friendly. Sagos, palm trees, etc.
Dude! fake grass is “fake”.
Right? Maybe stop building so many new houses. Who bothers with common sense these days though. Apparently the folks from Ohio and Indiana desperately need to come here. Ha.
The true irony behind the story by Reporter Spears and Channel 13 is that if the LVVWD gets involved, they will fine the association for excess use, watering out of time restrictions etc. Then the Summerlin Master Assoc. or whichever entity is in charge of that section of grass, will pass that little (or large) fee onto the homeowners, just like the whistleblower Karen in the story.
Snitches get (metaphorical) stitches.
I have a theory about people living in the desert. My theory is that we were not supposed to live here. There’s no easy way to grow food, very little natural water, and enough ambient heat between mid-May and mid-September to kill us. We are able to exist here because of air conditioning, alterations to the natural water system, and trucking. Mother nature has been trying to tell us; but we just won’t listen.
So we employ technology to survive. Reminds me of something. Just a second…. Tip of my tongue. Oh yeah, everywhere else on earth. People have been innovating and adapting to this environment since the Nuwuvi settled – and they didn’t have AC. That’s what people do everywhere. They don’t just lie down in the forest, or the meadow or the river or the dust.
I try and keep my socials pretty sanitized. I have lost a lot of friends in the past due to things I posted around election time regarding politics. I would not want to loose prospective clients due to my conservative values. So I made an “alt account” not traceable to me in order to post all that stuff and upset the libs.
Fox News uncles cannot stop themselves from posting on social media. It’s a compulsion. It’s not your fault. Proud of you for managing your addiction by creating the alt account.
Let’s be very honest with ourselves. “Conservative Values” aren’t things that would make you lose clients, nor are they things that you’d need an ironically-named “alt” account to post. The things you post that would lose you clients are the new far-right values that have become the rallying cry of US conservatism. Believe it or not, most people don’t want to do business with folks who support fasicm and far-right values. See, e.g., Tesla bleeding customers worldwide due to Elon’s amplification of fascism and hate speech; see also World War 2, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc.
Cry harder, sis. . . .
Today’s “Conservatism” is what we have been patiently waiting for all of these years and your calling it “fascism” just tells us that you really don’t know what that word means.
Just like you castrated the meaning of “racist”, “homophobe” and “misogynist”.
It’s your own damn fault. So kindly fuck off.
In simple terms, fascism is a far-right, ultranationalist political ideology and movement that emphasizes a strong, centralized government led by a dictator, often with a strong emphasis on militarism and suppression of opposition. It prioritizes the nation and its perceived greatness above individual rights, often promoting a sense of national decline and the need for a powerful leader to restore it.
I’m certain you have been “waiting for it for years,” likely since the Nuremberg Trials. You’re already well on your way there with the military takeover of DC, the Florida concentration camps for anyone the administration doesn’t like, the deportations without due process, the dismantling of personal freedoms, the demonization of non-white, non-male, non-Christians, the attack on the national educational system, the subversion to our Russian enemy, the glorification of a grifting felon who wears more makeup than the drag queens he purports to hate, the elevation of white supremacist values into national office, etc.
Just be honest, you’re just happy to see the USA on its way to becoming Nazi Germany.
Sis crying even harder today
you forgot the attacks on the other branches of government and the refusal to comply with court orders
Sis crying deep body racking sobs today!!
🤣🤣
>I would not want to loose prospective clients due to my conservative values.
That’s your Free Market God at work!
does LInkedin count as social media? Both my firm and I use it for posting professional stuff. I have a twitter profile and used to post work stuff and personal stuff but have pretty much stopped posting. I almost never post about work on facebook. I see some people killing it with TikTok like @legaldad but haven’t figured out a way to do it myself.
Linkedin barely counts as internet.
TikTok seems like a lot of work. My understanding is you have to create content on a very frequent, regular basis to become and stay relevant under the algorithm. It seems like a hamster wheel where you create content for someone else (TikTok) to make money.