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by AMY KINGSLEY
THE first plan for West Las Vegas was published the year President Jimmy Carter took office, and sat on the shelf for 17 years. In 1994, it was replaced by another plan, which held on for another 12. The city council approved the latest plan in 2006 for the historically black, economically depressed area. The American Planning Association convened in Las Vegas two years later and offered its two cents. And earlier this year, after West Las Vegas erupted in protest over the closure of F Street, the plan surfaced again in a series of neighborhood meetings organized by Las Vegas Councilman Ricki Barlow. (Barlow refused to comment for this story.)  | RSS
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If U.S. Sen. John Ensign has allowed any deep reflection to elbow through his mind these past two weeks, it must surely include something approaching the following: Thank you, God, for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and his globetrotting penis.
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For a while it was a page-turner. First, The Reading Room in the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino was set to close in March 2008 to make room for some hip-upscale-whatever clothing store. Then it ... didn't close. When the clothing store didn't materialize, The Reading Room, the city's only non-chain bookstore that sells new books -- actual literature, not Michael Crichton airport doorstops -- just quietly swam along in a perpetual reprieve, hosting authors and moving titles.
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