City Cast Las Vegas
🚗 Will Trump eliminate our HOV lanes?
August 11, 2025 · — Rob Kachelriess
🌙 Welcome to something we’re calling Night Week 💫
All week long, the City Cast Las Vegas podcast and Hey Las Vegas newsletter are focusing on things that happen in and around Las Vegas after the lights go down — and it begins today with a look at star gazing, light pollution, and one of the most vibrant meteor showers of the year.
Read on for more 👇
What's CITY Talking About?
🍎 It’s the First Day of School
Here’s how things are shaping up for the Clark County School District this year:
- Roughly 120,000 students qualify for bus rides — and drivers are still needed. [KSNV]
- A new middle school debuts inside the Boulevard Mall. [KVVU]
- An old elementary school is back open on Mt. Charleston. [KTNV]
- Dads In Schools need more volunteers (and you don’t even need to be a dad). [KVVU]
- Crime is down collectively among more than 300 schools. [KVVU]
- Nearly 40 schools received HVAC upgrades worth $5 million. [KSNV]
- It’s the first year for a new superintendent, who wants to see longer school days with later start times. [KLAS]
And for all the parents who made it through summer vacation — enjoy this list of bars 🍸 [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]
🛣️ Can Donald Trump Kill Nevada’s HOV Lanes?
I hope so 🙏 It’s better than killing the economy. (I kid! Maybe. Send hate mail here.) Lt. Gov. Stavros Anthony, a libertarian to the core, is asking El Presidente to officially eliminate carpool lanes on all Nevada highways. [KVVU]
🐷 Suspect Sought in Special Delivery
The CEO of an AI real estate startup says he received a bloody pig’s head in the mail with an angry letter about his business. Well, police have now released photos of someone who might have something to do with it. (Mad respect if he managed to squeeze the swine inside one of those Priority Mail boxes.) [KLAS]
- Semi-related: The best BBQ in Vegas. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]
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What To Do
Monday, Aug. 11
- 🪡 Machine Sewing Basics at Enterprise Library | 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. | Free | Shelbourne & Las Vegas Blvd.
- 🎳 Pins For Paws at Gold Coast Bowling Center | 6 - 9 p.m. | $30 | Gold Coast
- 🧠 Trivia Night at Lucky’s Lounge | 7 - 9 p.m. | Free to play | Centennial Hills
- 🎞️ Dive In Movies: Twilight at the Boulevard Pool | 8 p.m. | $10+ | The Cosmopolitan
Tuesday, Aug. 12
- 🍷 Swords & Sonnets at Natural 21 Game Lounge | 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. | $40 | Green Valley
- 📚 Mystery Book Club: Lost in Time at Paseo Verde Library | 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Free | Henderson
- 💪 Pure Barre Fitness on The Lawn | 7 p.m. | Free | Downtown Summerlin
- 🪭 Babes & Blues Live Burlesque at the Usual Place | 7 - 10:30 p.m. | $30.31+ | Downtown
- 🎙️ A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical at Reynolds Hall (through Aug. 17) | 7:30 p.m. | $36+ | Smith Center
- 🥃 Truth & Tequila Trivia Tuesdays at Hammered Harry’s | 8 - 10 p.m. (sign up by 7:30 p.m. | Free entry | Neonopolis
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