Las Vegas Optic

1 week ago | lasvegasoptic.com | Vanessa Maciel

In a column dated May 23, 2014, Editha Bartley wrote that she was recently asked by fellow Optic columnist Art Trujillo, if she ever ran out of story ideas. “Obviously, the answer is ‘no’ because things just pop up in my life and that reminds me of yet another tall tale or story,” Bartley wrote. The column, which was given the headline, “Never run out of stories,” was one of nearly 600 columns Bartley wrote for the Las Vegas Optic from 2010-2018.

1 week ago | lasvegasoptic.com | Vanessa Maciel

One quote seemed to sum up the takeaways from a community-led event where nearly 75 people impacted by the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire gathered and shared their experiences: ‘We need to hear ourselves first.’The quote appears repeatedly in an emailed communication from Rich Strittmatter, chairman of the A Community to be Heard event that took place March 29 at the Luna Community College auditorium.

1 week ago | lasvegasoptic.com | Phil Scherer

The West Las Vegas e-sports team won the Class 3A state championship last weekend, earning the top cumulative scores in a variety of video games, testing their skills across all genres. The Dons beat out second place Bosque and third place Sandia Prep to earn the championship in their classification. The event took place across three days of competition, with points accumulated through different games each day. Day one featured League of Legends, Hearthstone, and Rocket League.

1 week ago | lasvegasoptic.com | Phil Scherer

This past week, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham officially concluded Legislative action from the most recent session by vetoing a variety of bills, saying she was intending to send a message to legislators that they spent too much time on things that didn’t matter, as opposed to topics she considers more urgent. As the legislature is currently set up, she’s right. Even in an expanded session, there is little time to accomplish important things.

1 week ago | lasvegasoptic.com | Vanessa Maciel

Finding ways to recruit physicians and minimizing the number of patients that are flown out of Las Vegas for care were two of the main concerns expressed to Attorney General of New Mexico Raúl Torrez Tuesday by local health administrators. Organized by the Las Vegas New Mexico Community Foundation, the roundtable discussion brought Torrez and those in the health field under the same roof – the foundation’s new offices at 606 Douglas Ave.