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Homeowners in Las Vegas and North Las Vegas need to watch their water usage. The Water District is watching and every day waste investigators are issuing fines for people who are abusing their water privileges. For example, you are not supposed to water between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. The fines can mount up in a hurry.

First time offenders will get a warning, but the second time around there will be a fine attached and some people are getting hit with fines that cost over $600. Homeowners love their green lawns and their beautiful landscaping, but watch the water waste so you don’t end up wasting more green to cover the bills. For more on this go here.

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Veterans and other residents of Las Vegas might want to consider educating their local government about honoring soldiers lost to foreign wars. With so many soldiers dying in Iraq, it is a sad comment on the city and areas surrounding Las Vegas that so many of their memorials are falling into disuse, disrepair and even worse — demolition.

KLAS-TV reported on a monument to a missing soldier stands in front of a building known for its less than savory clientele. An olive tree on the grounds of probation and parole was built in the 1950’s. However, the crumbling facility is slated for demolition with its landscape including the tree right along with it.

The Campos Building at 215 East Bonanza headquarters for the state division of parole and probation. Dedicated in 1954 it once served as the governor’s southern Nevada office. Today those who use it say it’s simply served its purpose.

Residents, both past, present and future have a responsibility to protect the assets of Las Vegas and the memorials especially when they are investments in the future to honor the past.

The Las Vegas Sun is reporting an interesting tale about Henderson and North Las Vegas. It’s a digital, high-definition TV world, but when it comes to bringing local government into people’s homes, Henderson and North Las Vegas seem stuck in the black-and-white age.

Long after many local governments, large and small, began televising their meetings on cable stations, the two fast-growing Las Vegas Valley governments remain off the air - and seemingly not in any rush to go prime time.

“The city has grown, but this is not a news flash - we are stuck back in the 1980s,” said North Las Vegas resident Harvey Ferber, a regular council meeting attendee.

Builder Online is reporting that the inventory of homes for sale in Las Vegas reached an all-time high of 18,467 in April, a 29.3 percent increase from a year ago and nearly double the number from two years ago, the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported Thursday. Available condominiums and townhomes have increased nearly 50 percent to 3,971, largely a result of the trend in apartment conversions, which accounted for roughly 20 percent of last year’s new home sales. The median price of 2,230 single-family homes sold by Realtors in April was $310,000, down from $314,950 the previous month, but up 5.1 percent from the same month a year ago.

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Builder Online is reporting interesting findings in the local housing market. Las Vegas housing expert Dennis Smith is seeing mixed signals in the local market, which seems to be cooling like the national market. Activity was also strong in March with 3,022 building permits pulled. The year-to-date total of 7,773 represents a 16.6 percent increase from last year, still short of the record 9,149 permits pulled in first quarter of 2004.

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