🏈 Is there really a Chiefs flag under Allegiant?

🎉 Next F1 Will Only Be a Third as Bad!

Formula 1 officials say this year’s race-related hassles — setup and tear-down — will be considerably shorter than last year’s: three months instead of the nine required last year. No repaving or deep infrastructure work this time. Three months still sounds like a long time. [Review-Journal]

• Context: Was F1 actually a success? [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

🏈 Burying a Rumor

If you believe the persistent tale that a construction worker buried a Kansas City Chiefs flag in the foundation of Allegiant Stadium seven years ago, well, you’re snorting myth. At least according to the union boss whose crews did the work. Never happened, he says. [KLAS]

🎒 Should Feds Probe Teacher Shortages?

Citing concerns about teacher shortages in Nevada’s rural and majority Black and Latino areas, a new report calls on the feds to investigate possible statewide inequities in education. Also worth scrutiny, the report says: availability of behavioral-health support in schools. [Las Vegas Sun]

⚖️ Nothing Dry About It

What does a wonky issue about the link between groundwater and surface water have to do with anything? Plenty, says environmental journalist Daniel Rothberg, who visits our podcast to talk about a court decision that might revise water management in Nevada for the 21st century. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

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🤔 It’s the Question on America’s Mind …

“So, Scott, do you have a real last name?” (D.M.)

Answer: Yes. I just prefer the sound of “Dickensheets,” and the ridicule that comes with it!

🐺 Coyotes Are Biting Hendersonites?

“No, I don’t think they are biting people. I think we have a few coyote haters in Lake Las Vegas. … These people have moved in there, crowded (the coyotes) out and now want to kill them off because they are afraid of nature. … I think this is a rumor and may have been started by a ‘Karen’ coyote hater.” (Eileen Rex)

• Three questions with a coyote expert. [Hey Las Vegas 📧]
• Podcast interview with a different coyote expert. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

🔒 UNLV Security

A reader writes in response to a professor’s criticism that UNLV didn’t installed panic buttons during its post-shooting shutdown:

“Because between the day of the shooting and the day the campus opened, it took just about all of that time to clean up and replace what was broken. … If you have a home and want a security system installed, how fast do you think you could get it done now, and multiply that with how much larger the Beam building is, along with all of the other buildings.” (Barbara M.)

💬 Quote of the Day

“Allegiant Stadium looks like Darth Vader’s mask discarded on Tatooine, an architectural style that might best be called Mid-century Madman.”

—Sports Illustrated writer Steve Rushin, from his entertaining look at the marriage of Las Vegas and the NFL.)

😲 You Could Have Stopped Yourself, R-J Headline Writer!

A New Era in Water Policy

Last week, the Nevada Supreme Court issued a ruling with major implications for the ways our state uses water. Environmental reporter Daniel Rothberg just wrote about it for the Nevada Independent, and sits down with co-host Dayvid Figler to make it easy to understand.