The former president praised the work that Reid has done, specifically on the stimulus and health care bills. Clinton also touched on Senator Reid’s opponent, Sharron Angle.

“I might hide out too if I said I wanted to get rid of social security and medicare because somebody is going to say do you still believe that. I might hide out too if I said Harry Reid was wrong to try and spend 20 years to try and free us from all that nuclear waste. I think we ought to bring everyone’s here and recycle it right here on site in Nevada that would be great for our tourism industry,” said Former President Clinton.

The event was open to the public.

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Las Vegas is famous as the Gambling Capital of the world. This city of casinos and gambling parlous is one of the most exciting destinations in the world. Hence, it comes as no surprise that Las Vegas also has a very bustling real estate market. An increasing number of people are investing in the city of Vegas to be a part of the upsurge in the real estate market. Experts attribute this upsurge to a specific fundamental. Investors were driven to the real estate market in Vegas because the prices of real estate in California market skyrocketed. Due to increase in prices, the real estate market in California hit a ceiling. This resulted the shift of investments from California to the Nevada capital.

It was in 2004, that the influx of real estate investors began. People made a deliberate shift from California to Nevada. In fact, the influx was to such a great extent that it forced the real estate prices to increase by extraordinary 35%. There was a clear drain of capital from California to Vegas, especially after 2004. In fact, there were several investors who sold their properties in California, got higher returns and re-invested the returns in Vegas real estate market. Some of the most sought-after properties in Vegas include luxury homes, luxury condominiums, penthouse condos and luxurious apartments.

Reasons for Vegas Upsurge:

The real estate industry experienced a great boom after 2004.

There are some significant reasons for this rise in investments that are as follows:

1) The market in Las Vegas experienced a boom as builders started experiencing severe shortage of vacant land in the region. Also, the influx of people increased to almost 6,000 per month. This made the real estate industry extremely active and rewarding.

2) Las Vegas has become one of the premier real estate destinations for major investors and developers across the world. Investments by these people fuelled the growth in the real estate market in the region.

3) People consider Vegas as one of the best places to invest in luxury condos and penthouse condos.

4) For several people, Las Vegas is still the best post-retirement destination to settle down. This notion is still in vogue greatly. Hence, the real estate market is looking very bright and promising in the city.

5) Apart from being the gambling capital of the world, Las Vegas has greater attributes to its name. The city is one of the best places for people to reside in the entire nation. The city provides some of the most excellent amenities like reputed schools, beautiful gardens and parks, friendly neighborhood and an excellent quality of life.

Features of Real Estate Investments in Vegas:

Like in every region, real estate investment in Las Vegas has its own special features.

Some of the prominent features of Real estate investments in Las Vegas are as follows:

1) Las Vegas has a comprehensive and well-developed real estate market. Apart from having the conventional properties, Vegas also has pre-construction properties to boast for. This gives Vegas an added advantage, as real estate investors highly prefer pre-construction properties. This is because pre-construction properties provide greater returns in the long run than the usual properties. Hence, this is more beneficial a proposal for the investors as compared to the conventional developed properties.

2) There is great scope for investing in Las Vegas as the property can be used for various purposes. It can be used as a holiday rent-out for the tourists or it can also be used for leasing out to any commercial establishments. Las Vegas has growth prospects in all the industries and hence the property can be used for diverse purposes.

3) It is important that investors make their investments as soon as possible. This is because Vegas is growing and expanding at a scorching pace. Hence, to enjoy the best results, it is necessary that the investors invest in the real estate market at the earliest.

Tips for Real Estate Investments in Vegas:

For any real estate investment professional help has become indispensable. Along with it, the investors must also follow some basic tips while they indulge in Real estate investments in Vegas.

Following are some significant tips:

1) Las Vegas enjoys benefits like tax holidays and exemptions as far as real estate investments are concerned. Hence, it is necessary that the investors have the complete information about the tax benefits and on that basis invest in Las Vegas real estate.

2) It is difficult for people outside of Vegas to indulge in real estate on their own abilities. Hence, it is necessary that they take the help of a creditable real estate investment guide and broker while investing in a property.

3) While choosing a real estate investment advisor or broker, it is important for the investor to ensure that the advisor and broker have expertise mainly in the Las Vegas real estate market. This specialization provides that extra credibility to the advisor and broker.

4) When investing in Vegas, the investor must carefully consider those areas whose prices have escalated the most as compared to the areas that have steady or low price increase. On the basis of this information, the investor must make his investments.

5) It is important for the investors not to consider Vegas only a gaming city. Vegas has witnessed all round growth to its credit.

Las Vegas has now transformed from a purely entertainment and gaming destination to an important business hub. Hence, the real estate industry too is growing rapidly and investors must take this advantage and maximize their returns.

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Brittany Porter, left, Isis Young and Zaquae Downton listen to a Las Vegas police program at the Andre Agassi Boys and Girls Club last week.
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Metropolitan Police Department officers Davina Rader, left and Rich Burrus Jr. speak to teens at the Andre Agassi Boys and Girls Club about avoiding risky behavior.
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A grainy video of the 1999 Columbine massacre plays on a laptop projector in the library at the Andre Agassi Boys and Girls Club.

“You want me to stop right now?” shouts the armed teenager in the video.

Students cower behind chairs and under tables. A girl starts to cry. Then come the shots.

About 30 kids — some from Las Vegas’ roughest neighborhoods, from broken homes, from foster care — watch the screen intensely. When the video is over, one teenager at the Agassi clubhouse sits and stares in disbelief.

“I don’t want to see any dead people,” he says. “I’ve seen so many dead people already.”

Las Vegas police use the Columbine video to teach teens about risky behavior.

The Centers for Disease Control has tracked risky behavior in teens nationwide over the past 20 years. The CDC surveys kids about choices that put them at risk of ill health, addiction or death. The questions cover a range of topics — from eating habits and physical exercise to sexual activity and tobacco, alcohol and drug use.

The most recent Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance report, released last month, includes national, state and local surveys of students polled from September 2008 to December 2009. The national sample was a weighted survey of more than 16,000 students.

“Since 1991, the prevalence of many high-risk behaviors among high school students has decreased,” the report concludes. “However, many high school students continue to engage in behaviors that place them at risk.”

The nationwide survey includes such statistics as 17.5 percent of the students had carried a weapon, 7.4 percent had been forced to have sex and 6.3 percent attempted suicide.

The report also includes state surveys of more than 120,000 students from 42 states, including 2,085 students in Nevada. Twenty metropolitan areas also were surveyed, including 1,461 students in Clark County.

Nevada ranks near the middle of the states on most questions. The CDC’s appraisal of Nevada youth seems at odds with a place that has the nation’s worst jobless, foreclosure and high school graduation rates.

But the survey also shows prescription drug abuse, methamphetamine use and binge drinking are on the rise in Clark County .

Health educators said the numbers are encouraging, however, because a poor economy often is a precursor to teens becoming involved in dangerous activities. They said attentive parents, clear communication among relatives and getting teens involved in positive activities are factors that help prevent them from becoming involved in risky behavior.

Here are some of the survey’s findings:

drugs

Teens statewide are using prescription drugs, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana at a higher rate than on a national level. That raises concerns among law enforcement agencies and health educators.

Police have noticed an increase over the past two years in prescription drug abuse among high school kids who host pill parties, an activity also known as “pharming.”

At the parties, kids steal over-the-counter and prescription drugs from medicine cabinets at their homes, dump them into a large bowl and fish around for different pills to get high, said Sgt. Mark Sharp, who heads Metro’s youth education services.

His division has 18 officers who teach students about making good choices and avoiding such risky behavior as drug and alcohol abuse, gang violence and using weapons.

“It’s easier to get (prescription drugs) out of the medicine cabinet than it is to go to a seedy part of town to buy drugs,” Sharp said. “These kids don’t even know what they’re taking. Prescription drugs are harder to diagnose. If a person is intoxicated but doesn’t appear to have the odor of alcohol on his breath, they’re probably under the influence of a controlled substance.”

According to the report, one in five students nationwide admitted taking prescription drugs without a doctor’s prescription. These drugs are almost used as commonly as marijuana, and almost half of teens abusing drugs are taking painkillers.

“A lot of kids think that prescription drugs are safe because they’re prescribed by a doctor,” Sharp said. “But if you don’t have that medical issue, it’ll be bad for you. It’ll have ill effects. If you take a pill to increase your heartbeat, and you don’t have a heart problem, it can cause a heart attack.”

Montevista Hospital offers outpatient after-school and summertime rehab programs that target teens. Only a handful exist throughout the valley for kids who fall through the cracks after caving to peer pressure or coping with life’s difficulties.

“We’re having problems with opiates, kids starting out in mom and dad’s medicine cabinet and going to tar heroin,” said Larry Espadero, who directs the hospital’s chemical dependency program.

“It’s so cheap at $10 a bag. I’m getting kids in here as young as 14 detoxing off from tar heroin. A majority of these kids are starting off with the home to utilize drugs. There are so many medicine cabinets out there, and it just amazes me how many parents are unaware that their kids are into drugs.”

Espadero said local teens abuse cough syrup to get high. Some in the program have been caught with it.

“It’s like having an elephant in the living room and not paying attention to it and walking around it,” Espadero said. “Change doesn’t happen until there’s enough pain to create change. When they’re willing to make that change is when the pain has become great enough.”

alcohol

The statistics are better for alcohol use. In Nevada, 38.6 percent of high school students use alcohol, compared with 41.8 percent nationally.

In Clark County, 5.9 percent of students admitted to drinking and then driving and 22.6 percent rode in a car with someone who had been drinking. The same statistics nationwide are 9.7 percent and 28.3 percent

Las Vegas police have set up a “party patrol” of officers who seek out large parties where teens drink, use drugs and fight. The patrol has nabbed dozens of underage drinkers since March.

Nationwide, about one in four students say they participated in binge drinking, which is considered having five or more drinks.

Overall, Sharp said, Las Vegas youngsters are faring well.

“I don’t think we’re any worse. We’re a large town, and there will be abuse, but that comes with any city of our size.”

sex

According to the CDC report, 82.9 percent of Nevada’s high school students surveyed said they were taught in school about AIDS and HIV. It’s 87 percent nationwide.

The report shows 32.7 percent of kids statewide are having sex, 62 percent are using condoms, 16.9 percent are using birth control pills and 15 percent have had four or more partners.

Doreen Alvarado, who coordinates HIV and AIDS programs for the Area Health Education Center of Southern Nevada, said teens are getting mixed messages about safe sex.

The results show that kids are being smarter about using protection if they decide to have sex, Alvarado said. The problem is the misinformation and misnomers kids are getting from peers about getting sexually transmitted diseases.

“Teens have heard about HIV and AIDS. They’ve gotten the big picture that it’s very bad news,” Alvarado said. “And the condom thing, they get that too. But there’s a lot of miscommunication about not being able to get STDs if you have oral sex, things like that.”

Las Vegas led the nation in teen pregnancy statistics a decade ago, but local health experts said educational programs have helped lower the numbers.

“When these parents take these classes and start changing the way they parent, it lowers the risk of teens entering gangs or abusing drugs and alcohol,” said Tanya Batdorff, who heads the Area Health Education Center of Southern Nevada’s family life program.

The center holds free weekly classes to help parents understand how and why adolescents act the way they do, including a session on stress and bad influences. Batdorff said positive influence starts in the home.

“How can parents be secure if they’re losing their home, they’re losing their job and they’ve lost their insurance?” she said. “It’s a big challenge. When the families are struggling, so are the kids. If the parents are so stressed out, the kids are not going to add another problem to the parents. They are going to turn to risky behaviors.”

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Erik Scott
Army veteran who was shot by police Saturday worked for medical devices company

The man shot by police outside a Summerlin Costco store on Saturday was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point with a master’s degree from Duke University, friends said.

Army veteran Erik Scott, 39, was at the store near Charleston Boulevard and the Las Vegas Beltway with his girlfriend before three officers fatally shot him in a confrontation.

“The most loyal, honest, trustworthy, salt-of-the-earth guy you could meet,” said Pusateri, 38. “You only meet one or two of those kinds of guys in your life, and Erik is one of them.”

Scott worked for Boston Scientific, a medical devices manufacturer, as a sales representative for the company’s pacemakers. Attorney Ross Goodman, who represents Scott’s family, said Scott was one of the company’s top sales employees.

Pusateri and Goodman said Scott and his girlfriend were at the Costco because they were moving in together and wanted to buy the things they needed. The two men declined to discuss the events that led to the shooting.

According to Las Vegas police, officers were called to 801 S. Pavilion Center Drive at 12:47 p.m. by a store worker who said a man was destroying merchandise. Police were told the man had a gun.

Capt. Patrick Neville described Scott as “kind of going berserk.” Workers evacuated the store. Officers stopped Scott outside as the customers were leaving.

Neville said an officer tapped the man on the shoulder and identified himself as police. Scott then spun around and reached for a gun, law enforcement officials said.

“They ordered him to the ground,” Neville said of the officers on Saturday. “He does not comply with that order. He reaches for the weapon, pulls the weapon out, at which time, the weapon was out of the waistband.”

Three officers fired multiple times, killing Scott.

One witness interviewed Saturday and three others interviewed Sunday by the Review-Journal gave accounts that differed from what police described.

With a few minor variations, the witnesses recounted matching sequences of events. The witnesses interviewed did not see what happened inside the store that prompted workers to call police. Three of the witnesses, upset by the event, asked that their names not be published.

Once Scott was outside, none of the witnesses saw him brandish a weapon or make any movement that would seem like he was brandishing a weapon.

The first witness already had made his purchases and was waiting in line for a worker to check his receipt when he saw an officer enter the store. The officer whispered something to the worker checking the receipts. The first witness then heard that employee turn to another employee and say, “He said we should let him through.”

The four witnesses described a calm rush of customers exiting the front of the store after Costco workers told everyone to leave.

Attorney David Amesbury said he arrived in time to see shoppers leaving. He described the customer exodus as being “like the aftermath of Disneyland.”

A customer told Amesbury that he couldn’t go in, so the attorney waited on a bench west of the entrance. He said he had a clear view of two officers standing beside the entrance with their guns drawn.

All four witnesses said they were within 20 feet of the store’s main entrance. They said Scott walked out of the entrance with the crowd.

They described an officer shouting at Scott, then a quick succession of gunshots.

The witnesses differed in their recollection of what one of the officers said.

Amesbury heard, “I told you to stop. Stop.”

Two witnesses interviewed Sunday heard, “Drop it.”

A fourth witness, interviewed Saturday, heard, “Get down,” “Put it down,” or “Get out of the way.”

A second anonymous witness said Sunday he saw Scott pull up his shirt and turn toward the shouting officer. Then he saw the man get shot, drop to his knees and fall face-first in front of the entrance.

“There wasn’t even time for someone to react,” the second witness said. “The guy didn’t pull a gun. There was no gun in his hand, there was no gun on the ground.”

The second witness said he was interviewed by homicide detectives and gave them the same account.

The first anonymous witness also didn’t see Scott make a threat.

“I certainly did not see the guy do anything with a gun that would threaten anybody,” the first witness said Sunday. “It appeared to me that if he had guns on him, that they were literally in his pocket or in his waist.”

The first witness also was interviewed by homicide detectives about the shooting.

Amesbury said he did not see the man get shot, but, “When I go around the corner, I see this guy laid out. I didn’t see a gun.” Amesbury’s view of the shooting was blocked by stone pillars. He was not interviewed by police.

Before the shooting, Scott was walking with a woman that three witnesses thought was his girlfriend. They said she became distraught after the shooting. The incident also left the witnesses shaken.

It’s just incredible “with all these people around that Metro would provoke something there,” the second witness said. “I don’t want to second-guess the police, but wouldn’t it have been better to confront him out at his car?”

After the shooting, some people in the crowd panicked. An elderly woman was knocked down and cut her elbow in the chaos, the second witness said.

Only Scott was struck by gunfire .

Police said Scott had two handguns on him when he was shot. Goodman said Scott had a concealed-weapons permit.

Pusateri said his friend was a “safety freak” around guns. He said that “absolutely not in a million years” would Scott be careless with them around others.

Scott graduated from West Point, in New York, in 1994 and was stationed for a time at Fort Hood, Texas, as a tank platoon leader. In 2003, he graduated from Duke University in North Carolina with a master’s degree in business administration.

Friends said they noticed nothing strange about Scott in the days before the shooting.

On Friday, Scott’s vehicle was struck by another vehicle while he was rushing a pacemaker to Summerlin Hospital Medical Center, Pusateri said. Scott was not injured in the collision, and a firefighter took the device from the crash scene to the hospital, he said.

Friends were distraught and puzzled as to why police shot and killed Scott.

“He’s a stand-up guy in the community,” Goodman said. “This guy is not somebody to put himself in a situation like that.”

Pusateri, who also sells medical devices, said Scott worked closely with patients in his job. He called Scott’s job the “pinnacle” of the business.

“It’s very, very sad,” Pusateri said. “I’m shocked by it. It’s the tragic loss of a great man.”

Nevada’s Honor Guard soldiers carry Sgt. Matthew R. Hennigan’s flag-draped casket as they lead mourners to his grave Sunday at Palm Mortuary & Cemetery on Eastern Avenue, south of Warm Springs Road.
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Matthew R. Hennigan
Fallen soldier

Those were among the principles that Army Sgt. Matthew R. Hennigan followed as he grew up in Las Vegas, wrestled at Silverado High School and fought and died for his platoon in Afghanistan.

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Family, friends, soldiers, sailors and veterans — more than 500 in all — mourned the 20-year-old paratrooper Sunday in a cemetery on Eastern Avenue near Warm Springs Road, not far from where he spent most of his life. He died June 30 after being wounded by machine-gun fire during an ambush of his platoon in the Tangi Valley, about 40 miles south of Kabul.

In eulogies given at Palm Mortuary & Cemetery and in interviews last week, soldiers, coaches, relatives and childhood friends spoke highly of the young man who had a beaming smile and a winning attitude that prevailed in his short but meaningful life.

“He led by example. He was brave. He knew personal sacrifice,” said Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Colt. “He answered the call to serve and I’m sure he believed in what he was doing and who he was doing it with.”

Colt reminded mourners Sunday about the values Hennigan had, those that “are deeply woven in the fabric of the Army.”

He recited the U.S. Soldier’s Creed: “I will always place the mission first. I will never accept defeat. I will never quit. I will never leave a fallen comrade.”

On Friday, Hennigan’s former wrestling coach at Silverado, Gus Gledhill, remembered him as a no-nonsense team captain who made the state tournament in his senior year, 2007.

“He worked his tail off,” said Gledhill, describing how Hennigan was down points in his qualifying match but came back with quick, relentless moves to defeat his opponent. Despite being behind, he never gave up, he said.

Gledhill said he had talked to Hennigan about his desire to join the Army.

“He was the type of guy the military would love to have. If he would be killed in action, that would be an honor for him,” Gledhill said. “He knew what he was getting into and that wasn’t going to discourage him one bit.”

Shane Gettle, who also was a Silverado wrestler, said, “You could always count on him. … He was a happy kid but when it came to wrestling, when he came down to the mat, he was serious.”

Hennigan’s cousin, Kenny Aleksiak, of Chicago, said, “Matt feared nothing and nobody. Nothing could stop Matt when he set his mind on something.”

One example of that was his decision to join the Army.

“I’m sure people were against him going in but Matt was set on going. He truly believed it was where he belonged,” Aleksiak said.

Nathan Reed and Hennigan became friends as 6-year-olds.

“We went from playing baseball in my front yard almost every day when we were little kids, to riding our bikes to school together, to checking in the mirror to see who got their armpit hairs first,” Reed said, drawing laughs from the crowd. “I’ve got countless happy memories with Matt and I’m just sad we’re not going be able to make any more. … You’re a bigger man than I am. I’m going to miss you a lot.”

Army Sgt. Trent Schmidt, of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, said Hennigan, before heading to Afghanistan, had asked him to escort his body home if he were killed. “It was the greatest honor of my life, one I’d rather not have.”

Schmidt said he “didn’t know Matt as a child, didn’t know him as a teenager. … But I knew him as a man, I knew him as a warrior, I knew him as a friend.”

“He was an outstanding man, an outstanding warrior. He was an infantryman trapped in a military intelligence body,” Schmidt said. “But if he was an outstanding man and an outstanding warrior, he was light-years beyond that as a friend.”

While Hennigan’s father, Joseph Hennigan, of Barrington, Ill., waited Thursday at Henderson Executive Airport for the return of his son’s body, he talked about how determined his son had been to join the Army at age 17.

“He died doing what he wanted to do,” Joseph Hennigan said. “I’m very proud. He was a great son. He is a hero.”

Contact reporter Keith Rogers at krogers@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0308.

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