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It’s on the National Register of Historic Places. It’s the largest historic structure in Las Vegas. And it’s one of the oldest. The original Spanish colonists of the area began building it as soon as they arrived, in the mid-1830s.

What is it?

If you guessed the Plaza Hotel, the Ilfeld Addition or for that matter any other building, you would be wrong.

It is the Acequia Madre de Las Vegas, the mother ditch.

Las Vegas City Manager Timothy Dodge has been on the job for two weeks. So far, he is getting good reviews from the mayor and the City Council.

By a unanimous vote, the council earlier this month appointed Dodge, a Highlands University graduate who had been Santa Rosa’s city manager for the last four years.

At Wednesday’s council meeting, Councilwoman Diane Moore said she had seen Dodge plenty of times during the last two weeks, but not at his office. She said he has been out at meetings and other places, getting to know the community.

It’s an old story, but with a new twist. In 2007, nearly two-thirds of the employees at Alta Vista Regional Hospital voted to unionize, with District 1199 of the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees representing their interests at the bargaining table. But Alta Vista’s parent company, Community Health Systems, has refused to sit down with the union, and raised legal objections at every turn in an attempt to usurp the election results.

On Wednesday night, Las Vegas resident Tony Ortega was called a “one-man wrecking crew for the image of Las Vegas.” And it was suggested that the city pursue criminal charges against Ortega.

Last year, the city entered agreements with Ortega to clean up his properties in the Railroad Avenue area or the city would take care of the problems itself.