Goodman wants ‘Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas’ sign
Mayor Carolyn Goodman held up a sign Thursday morning saying she would run for reelection. But the sign on the other end of the Strip was on her mind, too.
“I want to remain in office, absolutely,” she said during an event marking the opening of The Nerd nightclub on the second level of Neonopolis in downtown Las Vegas. “I have the greatest job in the most exciting city in the world. I want to continue to be mayor, if my constituents will have me, of course.”
Goodman is up for reelection in two years, having succeeded her husband, Oscar Goodman, who spent three rollicking terms as the city’s mayor ending in 2011. Supporters of former U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley — and Las Vegas native Berkley herself — had discussed her as a fitting successor to the Goodman reign. But Berkley, a Las Vegas native, has said she’d run only if Goodman did not.
The mayor also used the event to fire a shot at the Clark County Commission in an ongoing issue between that board and City Hall. The issue centers on which governing body should issue proclamations and keys to the city or Strip at AN ORDER OF MCCHUMLEE
Austin “Chumlee” Russell of “Pawn Stars” returns to his first job today — at the McDonald’s near Galleria Mall at 601 N. Stephanie St. in Henderson — to take part in the company’s Eggs for Education charity campaign.
Chumlee also worked at a nearby Quiznos before hooking up with his friend Corey Harrison at Gold & Silver Pawn. The rest is History, which is the channel where “Pawn Stars” debuted in 2009 and remains a cable-TV phenomenon. ‘ABSINTHE’ FAILS TO IMPRESS
The Los Angeles Times has weighed in on the “Absinthe” production that opened March 22 at L.A. Live’s Event Deck.
I’ll save some reading. The tagline of the review posted Wednesday: “‘Absinthe’ may succeed wildly here, but from my point of view, what works in Vegas can stay in Vegas.”
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