🛜 Is a new internet provider coming?

🏖️ Beachy Teacher Recruiting Trips Probed

Does this perhaps throw Superintendent Jesus Jara’s abrupt resignation in a new light? Sources say state and federal education officials are investigating a pair of costly recruiting trips that saw CCSD staffers go to Miami and Hawaii in search of new teachers. Some of those expenses were paid for by federal pandemic-relief funds. The district says the feds signed off on the trips. The School Board will consider Jara’s departure on Wednesday. [Review-Journal]

• Similarly, the teachers union is suggesting that Jara’s swift departure might be about its legal action against the district related to a disparaging social media post allegedly put up by Jara. Today is the deadline for CCSD to turn over Jara’s social media records. [Nevada Independent]
• Several education unions are also against a measure on Wednesday’s agenda that would appoint Jara’s second-in-command to replace him, perhaps permanently, without a national search.
• Did our pod crew tackle a lot of this in Friday’s news roundup? You know it! [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

🛜 More Internet?!

Tomorrow, Google Fiber will go before the Clark County Commission, seeking approval to begin the process of bringing another high-speed internet service to a valley that needs it. [Review-Journal]

• Related: Why does our internet suck? And who can fix it? [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

💰 Hendo Spends Big on Cops, Fire

Out in Henderson, fire and police personnel comprise half of the city’s payroll. Some 47% of the city’s workforce pulls in six figures, including a police lieutenant who earns $341,000. I can tell you from experience that one class of employee they’re not paying enough of is road construction workers. [Review-Journal]

• Being a cop can be tough: Why officers are dying by suicide. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

Hard to know where to begin describing this tableau — so many denominations of commemorative kitsch here, from Revolutionary War bric-a-brac to, dead center, a bobblehead of former mayor Oscar Goodman as a possibly gin-soaked yankee doodle dandy.

Is this …

1. Part of the decor at the Original Omelete House at Charleston and Rancho?
2. Behind the bar at the Triple George power-lunch spot on Third Street?
3. A permanent display in the famous "Pawn Stars" Gold & Silver Pawn Shop?
4. In one of the restored homes at the Clark County Museum on Boulder Highway?

Scroll down for the correct answer. And use this button to submit a photo we might use in this space.

➕ Thanks to reader Brian Weiss for snapping this image!

What to Do This February in Las Vegas

February is an intermittently dreary month, as Mother Nature does her annual should-I-stay-or-should-I-go tapdance. But there’s plenty you can do to brighten the month, and we’re not just talking about the Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day. Heather Collins, a radio personality from 94.1-FM, and executive producer Sonja Cho Swanson join the podcast to fill you in. Dayvid Figler hosts.