Joe Schoenmann

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Shooters identified in slaying of Metro Police officers, bystander: Monday, June 9, 2014; Sheriff Doug Gillespie called the events that left five dead — Metro Officers Alyn Beck, 41, and Igor Soldo, 31; an unidentified bystander; and the two assailants — “an unprecedented day here at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department as well as in …
Two officers, three others dead in shootings at restaurant, Wal-Mart: Sunday, June 8, 2014; Two suspects declaring the start of "the revolution" shot two police officers this morning at a CiCi's Pizza on Nellis Boulevard, then ran into a nearby Wal-Mart and shot at least one other person before killing themselves, according to Metro Police. Assistant Sheriff Kevin McMahill said the two suspects ambushed and shot the two officers shortly before 11:30 a.m. at the CiCi's Pizza at 309 N. Nellis Blvd. …
Joe Downtown: Police crack down on security, alcohol on Fremont Street: Saturday, June 7, 2014; Combatting the heat, many thousands of people drank thousands more gallons of alcohol while ...
Las Vegas council agrees to initial medical marijuana rules: Wednesday, June 4, 2014; The complexity of regulating medical marijuana tongue-tied Las Vegas lawmakers as they slogged through 27 pages of proposed rules today. When the City Council finished, this is what they did ...
Las Vegas may require receipt for booze sold downtown: Wednesday, June 4, 2014; Stores that sell liquor downtown, particularly in the Fremont Street Experience, could be required to seal the booze in a bag with an affixed receipt. That recommendation...
Joe Downtown: Tragedy, secrets and the tough side of Downtown development: Wednesday, June 4, 2014; The neighborhood experiences a tragic loss and a brutal app allows bash-friendly conversation.
Council takes first step toward tax district for soccer stadium: Wednesday, June 4, 2014; The Las Vegas City Council has passed the first of several steps to create a tax district that could help finance a downtown soccer stadium. By a unanimous vote, the council...
Proposed regulations assert medical pot dispensaries linked to crime: Monday, June 2, 2014; Language in proposed regulations for medical marijuana businesses that links dispensaries to violent crimes and gang activity exaggerates...
Proposed ban on alcohol-carrying containers in Fremont Street Experience called too vague: Monday, June 2, 2014; Banning all containers would have meant if someone bought a six-pack from one of six stores currently selling package liquor in the Fremont Street Experience, he or she could be …
Council to consider special tax district for Symphony Park area: Thursday, May 29, 2014; The City Council on Wednesday will consider a bill creating a Tourism Improvement District on 59 acres that include Symphony Park and some nearby parcels. Findlay Sports and The Cordish Companies have targeted Symphony Park, a large parcel west of Main Street and east of Interstate 15, as a …
Joe Downtown: Have Zappos employees answered the neighborhood’s revitalization prayers?: Wednesday, May 28, 2014; Can the Zappos workforce sustain all the area's new businesses?
Pot dispensaries come with big price tags, lots of rules: Wednesday, May 28, 2014; If the expense of opening a medical marijuana facility — dispensary, cultivation or production facility, or testing lab — doesn’t scare away investors, 28 pages of Las Vegas regulations might. The city’s Recommending Committee will...
Las Vegas considering outdoor ban on alcohol bottles, cans downtown: Tuesday, May 27, 2014; A city of Las Vegas committee will consider a new booze rule allowing people to drink only from plastic cups in a 32-block area around Fremont Street downtown. The proposed amendment to city ordinances is meant to ...
Las Vegas budget remains unbalanced: Sunday, May 25, 2014; The Las Vegas city budget got busted in the recession.
Q+A: Bob Beers on budgets, Cliven Bundy and his challenge of Sen. Harry Reid: Friday, May 23, 2014; Councilman Bob Beers is frustrated that the City of Las Vegas can’t seem to live within its means. At a recent meeting ...
City to allow dispensaries on LV Boulevard, Fremont Street: Wednesday, May 21, 2014; Ultimately, only 12 dispensaries will be allowed within Las Vegas city limits. There are no numerical limits on cultivation and production facilities beyond distance separation ...
Las Vegas officials bar new liquor stores, tighten rules: Wednesday, May 21, 2014; The belief that drink-fueled problems in the five-block Fremont Street Experience are caused by package liquor sales prompted the Las Vegas City Council to crack down, toughening laws on ...
Joe Downtown: Nevada’s sesquicentennial book is riddled with mistakes: Wednesday, May 21, 2014; According to the coffee table book, the Golden Nugget is no longer in existence. Hmm...
Gambling returns to old Moulin Rouge — for a day: Wednesday, May 21, 2014; The historic Moulin Rouge casino is reopening — kind of, for eight hours anyway, and in a trailer. One day next month, a trailer with 16 slot machines will be rolled onto the site of the mostly demolished Moulin Rouge, allowing the owner to...
Campaign finance: Mark Hutchison, Lucy Flores and more: Tuesday, May 20, 2014; Campaign finance reports for Nevada politicians are due today. We'll break down ...
Joe Downtown: City commission gives $1 million to help revive Huntridge Theater: Monday, May 19, 2014; Questions about the risk Las Vegas might take on if it invests $1 million in historic Huntridge Theater fell to impassioned speeches from neighbors about ...
Powerful sheriff position up for grabs in June primary: Sunday, May 18, 2014; Four major candidates are vying to succeed Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie. The next sheriff will face a fresh set of challenges compared with what Gillespie encountered when he was elected ...
Joe Downtown: Use of force is prominent topic in sheriff candidate forum: Thursday, May 15, 2014; With just nine days before early voting begins, eight of nine men vying to become the next sheriff answered questions Thursday night on everything from police use of force on people — and animals — to immigration and ...
Cliven Bundy’s supporters seek crowdfunding to sustain militia: Thursday, May 15, 2014; Two supporters of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy launched crowdfunding campaigns to help pay for the militia that’s camping on the family’s ranch. Blaine Cooper and Christopher Ferrell ...
Joe Downtown: Could a $1 million grant make or break Huntridge revival efforts?: Wednesday, May 14, 2014; Huntridge Revival wants $1 million in public funding to move forward with renovating the historic theater.
Bundy family to pursue legal action against BLM: Tuesday, May 13, 2014; Unsatisfied with the local government response to a showdown between supporters of Cliven Bundy and Bureau of Land Management rangers more than a month ago, the Bundys announced they will ...
Downtowner named among most creative people in business: Monday, May 12, 2014; A downtowner was named one of this year’s 100 most creative people in business in the latest issue of Fast Company magazine. Jen McCabe is VegasTechFund’s chief of hardware investments. TechFund is...
Vintage is back in style in Las Vegas: Sunday, May 11, 2014; Las Vegas history matters again, moreso than it maybe ever has, to the community at large as well as the business community. The success of the Mob Museum and the push to revitalize the historic Huntridge Theater are just two examples of how the city ...
Militiamen move on from Bundy fight to next battle with BLM: Friday, May 9, 2014; Militiamen and woman camped out around Cliven Bundy’s cattle ranch about 80 miles north of Las Vegas are heading to Blanding, Utah, where another protest against the Bureau of Land Management will happen Saturday.
One month later, Cliven Bundy, militia, residents face an uneasy coexistence: Thursday, May 8, 2014; The federal agents backed down. The TV lights flickered off. The reporters flew home. But one month after the Bureau of Land Management’s cattle roundup...
Joe Downtown: Taking your time to get to know Las Vegas can pay off: Wednesday, May 7, 2014; Phil Pascal and Demont Daniel brought the party to Picnic on a recent Friday.
Joe Downtown: Councilman exploring whether city can kick-start Huntridge fundraising effort: Friday, May 2, 2014; Las Vegas Councilman Bob Coffin said a lawsuit looming over an effort to purchase and renovate the historic Huntridge Theater has caused would-be backers to …
Rancher Cliven Bundy's family, supporters gather peacefully at Metro Police: Friday, May 2, 2014; Cliven Bundy's family protested peacefully in front of the Metro Police department this morning and filed criminal complaints against the Bureau of Land Management for...
Joe Downtown: Clark County public defenders form union, face battle with administrators: Thursday, May 1, 2014; Very quietly, lawyers in the Office of the Clark County Public Defender have formed a union, a move they feel is key to obtaining pay equity with ...
Joe Downtown: Why is the successful Mob Museum asking for a handout?: Wednesday, April 30, 2014; The Centennial Commission was to consider a grant request from the Downtown institution earlier this week.
Movie shot and produced in Nevada puts new tax incentive in play: Friday, April 25, 2014; Las Vegas’ neon-lit, mobster-shadowed history is a frequent backdrop for movies and television shows. But the fact that a movie is being filmed ...
Joe Downtown: Thousands — mostly non-Nevadans — sign online petition opposing horse carriages: Thursday, April 24, 2014; Posted online less than a week, a petition against horse-drawn carriage rides in Las Vegas had collected some 5,400 electronic signatures by Thursday afternoon. Of the most recent 1,000 signatures, only 30, or 3 percent, were ...
Joe Downtown: Horse-drawn carriages and Fremont East’s tug between locals and tourists: New transportation options Downtown cater more to out-of-towners than residents; Wednesday, April 23, 2014; Horse-drawn carriages, pedicabs and a Disney trolley. All could be coming to Downtown.
Joe Downtown: Just opened, O Face doughnuts already packing them in: Wednesday, April 23, 2014; The mere fact that two of its morning offerings contained bacon is a sign that O Face is on the right track. Another sign: by 10 a.m., a rush of customers...
Joe Downtown: City seeking lifeguards, swim instructors: Tuesday, April 22, 2014; Lifeguards and swim instructors are needed to patrol the waters of city pools this summer. The city has about 35 positions available for...
Joe Downtown: Inspire Theater to show documentary on jazz, big band musicians: Monday, April 21, 2014; A multi-award-winning documentary about female jazz and big band musicians from the 1930s to now will be shown at downtown’s new Inspire Theater next week.
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Recipe for success not so complicated: Sunday, April 20, 2014; In an odd way, the struggles at Wild, the pizza restaurant on the first floor of the Ogden, could be a good thing for the Downtown Project ...
Joe Downtown: Construction to begin on downtown beautification project: Thursday, April 17, 2014; The city is about to shower some love on a part of downtown that needs it. Construction on a Main and Commerce streets beautification ...
Joe Downtown: Fremont Country Club gets OK for 18 and up shows: Wednesday, April 16, 2014; Fremont Country Club has booked a few bigger-name acts — Hanson (of "MMMBop" fame) played there last September — but it has never made the big splash that its operator/promoter ...
Joe Downtown: We might not be ready for the truly nontraditional: Wednesday, April 16, 2014; Tom Haskins lived in the conventional world and attained middle-class wealth and status. He didn’t much like it.
Joe Downtown: Las Vegas City Council votes to allow horse-drawn carriages downtown: Wednesday, April 16, 2014; Though they argued it would lead to more congested streets downtown, the mayor and two Las Vegas City Council members were outvoted: horse-drawn carriages are on their way. Despite concerns...
Joe Downtown: Liquor battle brewing at Fremont Street Experience: Monday, April 14, 2014; downtown liquor store operators on Fremont Street are feeling the squeeze. They put up signs telling people not to open containers inside their stores, they hired security, they warned customers not to drink within 1,000 feet of their stores. But even after all that ...
Joe Downtown: Company gets tax credits for shooting movie in Las Vegas: Monday, April 14, 2014; A production company shooting a movie in Las Vegas starring Dakota Fanning has received $297,000 in state tax credits. The company, LPF One DTIG LLC, will be filming in Southern Nevada until early May and already has shot at a downtown club, at Mount Charleston and today was at ....
Joe Downtown: New management at The Ogden’s Wild eyes healthier business model: Thursday, April 10, 2014; The Downtown Project has taken over Wild, the gluten-free pizza restaurant on the first floor of The Ogden, and has employed a former chef to help ...
Joe Downtown: Has DTP squeezed out other development by buying so much Fremont area acreage?: Wednesday, April 9, 2014; Downtown Project is sitting on buildings and properties until ideas spring up.