For years, many people visiting Las Vegas used to drive in for a weekend - or even for a day, especially those coming from neighboring states such as Arizona, Utah and California - but now, thanks to Nevada State Senator David Park, all those people coming to our city to spend money, whether by gambling, shopping or just visiting shows and shopping centers, will be breaking the law at one time or another. Attorneys come in to represent clients in court on a regular basis; sales representatives come here from different national companies; gamblers come to our city to leave their money on the tables; even secretaries, teachers, college students, or sales clerks looking to make a fast buck over the weekend, all drive to Las Vegas on a regular basis for different reasons, leaving their money here and contributing to the coffers of our state. State Sen. David Park, the first openly gay official in our state, has put a halt to all that with a new law that took effect on October 1, 2011, and which...

Thanks To Sen. David Park: Visitors Not Allowed To Drive To Las Vegas For years, many people visiting Las Vegas used to drive in for a weekend - or even for a day, especially those coming from neighboring states such as Arizona, Utah and California - but now, thanks to Nevada State Senator David Park, all those people coming to our city to spend money, whether by gambling, shopping or just visiting shows and shopping centers, will be breaking the law at one time or another. Attorneys come in to represent clients in court on a regular basis; sales representatives come here from different national companies; gamblers come to our city to leave their money on the tables; even secretaries, teachers, college students, or sales clerks looking to make a fast buck over the weekend, all drive to Las Vegas on a regular basis for different reasons, leaving their money here and contributing to the coffers of our state. State Sen. David Park, the first openly gay official in our state, has put a halt...

The Las Vegas Tribune is proud to present a new feature: “The WISE Awards.” Every week, Las Vegas school children will be given the opportunity to participate in Writing Intelligent Scholarly Expositions; registration for this competition will allow students to submit an original, informative, nonfictional exposition based on one of twenty predetermined topic-situations. Students will be grouped into one of two categories: Prodigy or Phoenix. Every week, the Las Vegas Tribune will feature articles written by two student winners. Children attending a Las Vegas elementary or middle school - grades 5 through 8 - will be gathered into our “Prodigy” group, while children attending a Las Vegas high school - grades 9 through 12 - will be categorized as our “Phoenix” group. Each week one child from each category will be selected by a panel of teachers, professors and college students, and their award-winning expositions will be featured in the Las Vegas Tribune's weekly print and Internet...

In the long range scheme of things that occur daily in Las Vegas, this case appears to contain a very unique set of circumstances. The Las Vegas Tribune has learned that Detective Gordon Martines, a 36-year veteran police officer and three-time candidate for sheriff of Clark County Nevada, rated the most experienced real live detective in the entire Las Vegas Metro Police Department, and president and co-founder of STOP DUI INC., has recently undergone heart surgery, which was performed at Desert Springs Hospital on September 8, 2011. At first glance, heart surgery does not seem all that unusual, especially since from all accounts and information, the surgery went well, without any complications, and we are happy to announce that Det. Martines, 60 years of age, is recovering well at home, getting the required and much needed rest that restricts his movements, as well as physical rehabilitation. But, that is not what makes this story unique; that is to be found in the facts and circumstances...

After several months of criticism without a real result, the Clark County School District finally and politely asked the School Police Chief to step down. Chief Filiberto (aka Phil) Arroyo's last day as the top man in the Clark County School District Police was Friday, September 30 - but he is still employed by the Clark County School District as reported by the District spokesperson, David Roddy. Captain Jim Ketsaa, Arroyo's Deputy Chief for the last eight months, has been named Acting Chief, which was publicly confirmed by the District's spokesperson Michael Rodriguez. Arroyo became the Chief of the Clark County School District Police a little more than three years ago and he is no stranger to controversy. Former school police captain William Goodwin was forced out of the department after he questioned Chief Arroyo's decision of purchasing shotguns and assault rifles, even though the equipment was not an issue to the officers. Utah authorities were complaining that after one year of being...