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Today's News

  • City gets out word: outside of town

    When the mayor wanted to get the word out about a committee that he was planning to form, he didn’t go to the local newspaper. And he didn’t inform the City Council as a whole.

    Instead, he placed a paid advertisement in the Albuquerque Journal’s northern edition on Thursday. It appeared a day after reports from City Hall indicated that Mayor Tony Marquez, upset with recent Optic coverage of his administration, had it be known that he no longer wanted any of the city’s advertising to go to the local newspaper.

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  • District gets credits on project

    An official giving a tour of the Don Cecilio Martinez Elementary School construction project asked a visitor this week, “When was the last time the school district got money back from a construction project?”

    But that’s exactly what’s happening with Don Cecilio, said Jerry Maestas, the West Las Vegas school district’s construction manager.

    At last week’s West Las Vegas school board meeting, architect Antonio Ortega laid out the details on the work being done at Don Cecilio.

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  • Officials respond to Lee residents

    The city has been going in circles recently when it comes to Lee Drive.

    Last week, however, the Las Vegas City Council arrived at a decision about the controversial roundabout at Lee and Kierig Street: Keep it.

    The city built the roundabout and approaching medians last year in response to residents’ complaints about speeding in their neighborhood.

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  • LETTER: The money is there

    So West Las Vegas Schools are short $81,000 for transportation. Wonder if the “powers that be” ever consider streamlining, or even consolidating administrative services with their mirror organization at Las Vegas City Schools? It wouldn’t affect the funding formula for students at either district and would free up hundreds of thousands of dollars for actual education, or even $81,000 budget shortfalls.

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  • LETTER: Praise for new city manager

    I am so glad that the city stopped “saving money” and hired a city manager. This young man from Santa Rosa grabbed the “bull by the horns” at his first City Council meeting.

    The issue was the roundabout on Lee Avenue. There were several solutions offered from the public and quotes about the wants of the neighborhood thrown about. First shot out of the box, our city manager calls for a public input meeting the following Monday evening.

    Eighteen citizens were in attendance and voted. Did you hear me? I said voted their wishes to the city manager.

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  • COLUMN: Make public info easily available

    Over the last year, the city has seen some improvements on its web site. And that probably has something to do with the fact that the Internet is second nature to Mayor Tony Marquez, who started last March. He insisted on a better site when he took over.

    That’s in sharp contrast to our last mayor, Henry Sanchez, who didn’t use computers at all. Not surprisingly, the city’s Internet site was a backwater during Sanchez’s reign.

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  • LETTER: Campos right to oppose bill

    I would like to repeat something written and published in the March 6 weekend paper.

    “Way to go, Pete!” the only difference is that I’m saying it with respect and gratitude, rather than angry sarcasm, toward our Sen. Pete Compos.

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  • LETTER: Thanks to Wid Slick for work

    The Las Vegas/San Miguel Chamber of Commerce and its Board of Directors would like to thank Wid Slick for his hard work and dedication during his term as a board member.

    We wish you good luck and success in the future.

    Diana Ortiz

    of behalf of the

     LV/SM Chamber of Commerce

    and Board of Directors

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  • LETTER: Always welcome when he’s home

    I was recently home on leave from Iraq and I must say it is always wonderful to come home to Las Vegas. I always feel so welcome everywhere I go while I am home.

    I would like to take the time to thank the people that have helped me out by sending me stuff and done other things to support me: Aggie Santillanes from Memorial Middle School, Steve Lucero from Highlands Wrecker Services, the wonderful ladies from Las Vegas Conoco on Seventh Street.  

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  • Vendors upset with new policy

    Food vendors who have done business on Fifth Street during lunchtime at Robertson High School for years said last week they were being unfairly targeted.

    Recently, they said the city police were called to tell them they couldn’t park along the yellow curb next to the school.

    Dale Bustamante of Buba’s Pizza and Nghia Ha, owner of Little Saigon, said at a Las Vegas City Schools board meeting last week they were getting mixed messages from school officials.

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