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Authorities to mother of five: You’re being deported Monday

Ill woman could take her daughters to Armenia — or face separation

Friday, July 3, 2009

Anoush Sarkisian is not in the mood for celebrating Independence Day this year, nearly two decades after first touching U.S. soil. This Fourth of July is scheduled to be the last in Las Vegas for the 50-year-old mother of five girls. Authorities plan to deport her Monday. Sarkisian discovered this last week when she showed up for her monthly visit to local immigration authorities, and an official handed her what attorneys call a “bag and baggage” letter. It dryly informed her that “arrangements will be made for your departure to Armenia” on July 6.

Nevada jeered, American Samoa cheered for stimulus Web sites

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Nevada and American Samoa both launched Web sites in the same week of early March to keep track of the massive amounts of money that Congress had just approved under the so-called stimulus act.

Info for Iran, from UNLV

Author in asylum program uses Web to filter news, warnings back to her homeland

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

In the chaos after both incumbent and challenger crowed victory in Iran’s June 12 presidential election, an e-mail written in code landed in Moniro Ravanipour’s e-mail inbox.

Child abuse escalates with money woes

Agencies report spike in neglect, violence in recent months

Friday, June 26, 2009

With joblessness and foreclosure rates hitting record highs in the Las Vegas Valley, stressed-out parents and caregivers are more likely to abuse or neglect their children, according to experts.

Audit of NLV agency confirms dysfunction

But blame, specifics will have to wait

Friday, June 19, 2009

If a second source was needed to confirm whether the North Las Vegas Housing Authority served people poorly and squandered millions, that confirmation has arrived.

Law allows restaurants freedom to be charitable

Businesses consider donating food instead of throwing it away

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Come July 1, Kathia Pereira’s family business won’t have to toss up to 1,000 rolls and loaves of bread into the trash every week. A new state law, which she helped write, takes effect on that date, protecting donors of perishable food from liability. It will allow Bon Breads Baking Co., the business she owns with her husband, Carlos, to give bread to organizations such as Three Square food bank instead of throwing it away. “For a long time, my husband and friends in the business wouldn’t donate bread and other food because they were afraid of lawsuits,” Pereira said. “Now we don’t have to worry.”

Possible conflicts of interest are workforce board’s norm

Other work accepted to get best-qualified

Friday, June 12, 2009

Clark County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly gave up a $48,000-a-year part-time government job after it stirred up talk about conflict of interest last month.

Tent city plans shorting other needy?

Private group, city of Las Vegas both focus on Foremaster Lane

Friday, June 12, 2009

Metro Deputy Chief Gary Schofield told his officers this spring to drop their policy of running off anyone they caught trying to feed the homeless near a tent city on Foremaster Lane.

With little data, panel plans talk on foreclosures and minorities

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Panelists at tonight’s town-hall meeting on how the foreclosure crisis affects minorities in the valley are handicapped by a lack of research on the topic. According to its hosts, public radio stations KNPR 88.9-FM and KCEP 88.1-FM, the event is meant to address “how ethnic minorities have disproportionately been affected” by foreclosures in the region.

Desire, months of searching haven’t landed woman a job

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Out of work this spring, 51-year-old Paula Gray decided to stand on a highway off-ramp and hand out business cards to passing drivers.

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