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Verlie Doing, the 88-year-old matriarch of Searchlight, is selling her holdings in the town where Harry Reid was born.
Asking price: $4.9 million.
"Now you can own your own historic town," reads the pitch.
Fred Marik, the agent for Doing, has sent out a solicitation on the property (pasted below) and a description (attached here). The 41 acres encapsulate much of the city's center, and she is also selling the mineral rights.
Marik said Doing is moving to Missouri and liquidating her assets. I...
UPDATE NO. 2 -- It's even worse than I thought. As soon as Henderson learned it was part of the NLV amendment last week -- that is, Henderson would have benefited, too -- City Manager Jake Snow sent a "we had nothing to do with this!" email to the speaker. I have obtained their exchange:
On Jan 31, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Jacob Snow wrote:
We got this from NLV yesterday. We had nothing to do with it. It shows the City of Henderson getting a base adjustment along with City of North Las...
He will be expelled
37% (46 votes)
He will resign.
31% (39 votes)
He will serve.
30% (37 votes)
Total votes: 122
Just before noon on Monday, five legislative police officers were dispatched to Room 3159 in the Legislative Building.
That is the office belonging to Assemblyman Steven J. Brooks II, who would soon be meeting with Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick, whom he is accused of threatening, and Majority Leader William Horne. Two of the police officers, accompanied by Legislative Counsel Bureau Director Rick Combs, went into an anteroom inside Brooks’ office while the others met behind a closed door,...
Todd Bice, a well-known Las Vegas attorney, sent a letter to the district attorney this week accusing Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak of breaking the state's Open Meeting Law.
I have already reported Bice's opposition to the county's coming changes (there is a meeting today) to the garbage agreement (he won't tell me who he is representing, other than to say people are upset). But now he has taken it further, writing a scathing letter (posted here) to the DA, using words such as "...
CARSON CITY -- If you were there in 1989, during the searing acrimony of the 300 percent pension increase, you really can’t believe.
If you were there in 1997, during the special interest domination of the Session From Hell, you really can’t believe.
If you were there in 2003, during the relentless nastiness of The Great Tax Debate, you really can’t believe.
Too much experience with the Gang of 63 begets too much cynicism, too much exhaustion to have the strength to suspend one’s disbelief. But...