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September 12, 2023
Happy Tuesday. Question: If money could buy happiness, how much would it take? According to this new report, a Las Vegan needs to make $105,435 a year to live happily. Santa Barbara, Calif., tops the list at $162,721. Meanwhile, happiness is cheapest in Knoxville, Tenn: $88,032. But you gotta live in Knoxville.
What's CITY Talking About?
🗳️ Trump’s Ballot Access Challenged
Some guy from Texas has filed a lawsuit in Nevada meant to keep Donald Trump off the state’s ballot in 2024. He cites the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which prohibits anyone from holding public office if they’ve participated in an insurrection. The strategy is considered a long shot. [Nevada Independent]
🛑 Silence Treatment
Channel 13 details its fruitless attempts to talk to Sheriff Kevin McMahill — or anyone at Metro — or get any public documents related to certain allegations of wrongdoing on his part. (Lacking substantiation, Channel 13 doesn’t detail the accusations.) [Channel 13]
📚 ‘Gangster’ Wisdom
What makes Las Vegas, specifically Summerlin, the ideal place to set best-selling crime novels about a mob hitman disguised as a rabbi? Author Tod Goldberg, who closes his Vegas trilogy with “Gangsters Don’t Die” (out today), tells all. [Alta Online]
- Pairs nicely with: Mob expert Geoff Schumacher on the fascination with organized crime as revealed by the Lake Mead body in a barrel. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]
🚗💨 Stroads to Nowhere
A street is an urban byway along which city life happens; a road is a speedy pathway between two points — a “stroad” combines the worst of each. Vegas has stroads galore. Podcast guest Ray Delahanty — aka the City Nerd — talks about whether our streets are dangerous by design. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]
What To Do
🎸 Lennon Roach | Wednesday | 10-11:30 p.m.
A set by the Las Vegas-based country-blues rocker. Take a listen here; start with “Honey Bee.” [Sand Dollar Lounge, Spring Mountain Road; no cover]
- Turns out, Roach is a favorite of our podcast team, too. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]
⚕️ Wellness Screenings | Thursday | 3-5 p.m.
Get free vision, dental, and blood-pressure checks, and get the facts about Medicaid. [West Las Vegas Library; free]
📚 Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | Thursday | 6 p.m.
The author of the acclaimed new novel “Chain Gang All Stars,” and the story collection “Black Friday” reads from his work. Sponsored by the Black Mountain Institute. [UNLV; free]
Today on City Cast
Our Long and Winding Stroads
The valley is full of “stroads” — thoroughfares that combine the urban density of a street with the velocity of a road. As “City Nerd” Ray Delahanty explains to podcast host Dayvid Figler in this replay of an earlier conversation, if our roads are inefficient and unsafe, it’s not always the drivers’ fault. Sometimes it's bad design.
If you want to make yourself heard regarding the proposed merger between grocery store giants Kroger and Albertsons, you can do it in person tomorrow, or weigh in online. Click here for more. 🛒 See you tomorrow.
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