From the Las Vegas Optic The coronavirus pandemic has prevented people from doing a lot of things they love, but reading books is not one of them. While the Carnegie Public Library isn’t currently open to the public, it does offer a curbside pickup option which allows residents of the Meadow City the opportunity to…
From the Idaho Business Review While the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the way Idahoans live, it has not slowed the demand for multifamily housing in Idaho. In fact, demand continues to rise as developers and multifamily housing operators plan new development projects. Boise-based real estate development company Thomas Development Co. recently completed a 48-unit affordable…
From the Idaho Business Review The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we think about nearly everything in our daily lives, and it’s no different for those who design and manage student housing at Idaho’s largest universities. It’s also meant universities are taking on fewer student housing projects. At Boise State University, the most recent…
From the Las Vegas Optic Since the 1920s, an electric clock has adorned the sidewalk along Douglas Avenue in downtown Las Vegas. That is, until 2013, when strong winds broke the clock free from its base. Thanks to the hard work of many people in the community, the clock has now been restored and returned…
From the Las Vegas Optic Editor’s note: The following is the first in a series exploring the role street gangs, prison gangs and organized crime play in violence, drug trafficking and addiction within Las Vegas and its surrounding communities. Federal agents and officers from multiple agencies converged on Las Vegas in the summer of 2012…
From the Las Vegas Optic New Mexico continues to have one of the highest rates of suicide in the country, and experts worry the COVID-19 pandemic could cause the state’s suicide rate to increase in 2021. In 2019, New Mexico lost 515 people to suicide, according to research by the Legislative Finance Committee released this…
From the Las Vegas Optic By the time the sun set on Monday, Sept. 21, Cassandra Lucero’s family had begun to worry. Her father hadn’t seen her all day, and she hadn’t called. He contacted police, and friends and family began searching for the 29-year-old Las Vegas woman. Investigators with the Las Vegas Police Department…
From the Las Vegas Optic Las Vegas police officers escorted a parade supporting President Donald Trump through the streets of Las Vegas Saturday. The escort was authorized by top members of the Las Vegas Police Department, but some city leaders are voicing concerns about that decision. City Councilor David Romero told the Optic his main…
From the Las Vegas Optic Fifteen weeks after Shana Storey was reported missing, city code enforcement officers discovered her badly-decomposed body under the floor of a home on Romero Street. The discovery wasn’t a complete shock, however, especially not to Storey’s family who’d been told by several people that her body was in the house,…
From the Las Vegas Optic He was more than an average resident. Skip was a part of Las Vegas — an intrinsic fixture seemingly plucked from the pages of a novel about a quaint small town in northern New Mexico. Visitors and locals alike could see him all over town, and he’d usually offer a…
