City Cast Las Vegas
🏘️ Are HOAs and regulators too cozy?
October 31, 2023
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What's CITY Talking About?
🏘️ Cozy Relationship?
Five years after the HOA industry gave Southern Nevada its biggest-ever political corruption scandal — which is saying something, amiright? — critics say the situation hasn’t improved, and that regulators do little to check abuses. [Nevada Current]
💰 Questions Raised
Like so much in Nevada, the spectacle of $33 million in state funds going to various nonprofits with ties to lawmakers during the last Legislature isn’t technically illegal. But it sure does raise some ethical concerns. [Review-Journal]
⚖️ Senator Threatened
A Las Vegas man has been charged with making antisemitic threats to an unnamed U.S. senator from Nevada, widely presumed to be Jacky Rosen, who’s been strongly supportive of Israel. [Nevada Independent]
💧 Change Your Water Schedule
Just a reminder that your official watering schedule drops to one day a week tomorrow, lest you court water-waste fines. You can find your mandated day here. [KSNV]
- Related: Our own Dayvid Figler rides along with a local water cop. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]
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What To Do
📺 ‘Nevada Democracy Project’ | Wednesday | 6 p.m.
The Nevada Independent and Vegas PBS team up for a community listening session in advance of the upcoming election year. Livestream at the link, or register to attend in person. [West Las Vegas Library; free]
📚 Reading by Amy Kurzweil | Wednesday | 7 p.m.
The celebrated cartoonist talks about and reads from “Artificial,” her visual memoir of her family’s attempt — her father, by the way, is celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil — to preserve her grandfather’s legacy through music and artificial intelligence. [Beverly Theater, downtown; free]
- Particularly relevant: A conversation between Amy and Ray Kurzweil. [Black Mountain Radio]
- Sorta relevant: How will AI change Las Vegas hospitality? [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]
💀 Life in Death Festival | Wednesday-Thursday | 5-9 p.m.
One of the valley’s best versions of the traditional Mexican Day of the Dead festival, complete with performances, food, ofrenda altars, readings of calaveras (humorous poems in memory of someone still alive), films, art, and more. [Winchester Dondero Cultural Center; free]
🎤 ‘Living Nations, Living Words’ | Thursday | 5 p.m.
Readings from the anthology of Indigenous poetry compiled by U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo. [Sunrise Library, Sunrise Manor; free]
Today on City Cast
This Is Not Tomato/Tomahto
Today being Nevada Day (notably not Ne-VAH-duh Day) we’re reupping host Dayvid Figler’s lively podcast talk with UNR linguist Valerie Fridland about how to say our state’s name, how it came to have that pronunciation — and why this stuff matters.
Lastly today, why not do the Henderson Library system a solid and fill out this anonymous survey to help managers shape the district’s five-year plan? Friday’s the deadline, so do it soon! ✍️ See you tomorrow.
☕ Scott Dickensheets
Huzzahs to Sonja Cho Swanson for the sharp edits!
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