Las Vegas Weekly

The City of Las Vegas launched an advertising campaign last week to get free foreclosure help out to the public through a website, freehomeaidnv.org, which explains how to get in touch with experts in short sales, foreclosure mediation, mortgage modification and foreclosure fraud assistance. What the website doesn’t explain, however, is why it wasn’t launched three years ago.

Manny Pacquiao’s defeat of Juan Manuel Marquez by decision certainly didn’t go over the way he expected, accompanied by an arena full of boos and sportswriters talking about a tarnished reputation. A quick note to these groups: Get over it. Boxing has a long history of controversy involving fighters every bit as good as Pacquiao. Something tells us Manny’s rep will survive this just fine.

Roughly 10 members of Occupy Las Vegas have split themselves into another group, OccupyLV, because of disagreements within the group. Or, to put it another way, less than 1 percent of the 99 percent have zero percent in common, but they are still 100 percent determined to fight the 1 percent who control 42 percent of the country’s financial wealth. Oh, and their new name is 50 percent the length of the original one. Got it?