Stacy J. Willis

Stacy J. Willis has worked as a writer and editor for the Weekly for four years. Prior to that, she worked for the Las Vegas Sun and the Arizona Daily Star. When not on the clock, she builds hot rods from scratch in her suburban garage.

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History, betrayal, progress and Dennis McBride: The political and the personal come together in the life of the local historian; Thursday, April 29, 2010; The Boulder City historian has struggled with identity and betrayal on the way to today.
Is Nevada playing it safe?: Somewhere along the way, risk-taking Nevada lost its edge; Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010; If a girl wants to smoke a little weed and hook up with a tax-paying brothel professional before marrying her lesbian lover, shouldn't she be able to do that in Nevada?
A sorta-super Sunday: Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010; The Saints have this never-been-to-the-Bowl, post-Katrina rally thing going, and the Colts are rocking a should’ve-been-undefeated season. Lucky for us, Vegas has home-team bars for both.
Despite 12 years of service, gay state senator David Parks still faces many hurdles in Nevada: Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010; The state’s first openly gay lawmaker, State Sen. David Parks, is an even-keeled, buttoned-up legislator who’s now changing his focus to the Clark County Commission.
Learn something liberating: Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010; Find out what's really wrong with America?
The State of Economic Diversification: Money talks—which is why it’s so quiet: Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010; Things suck, economically. But that's not all.
And on your left, polygamy: A tour of the nearby fundamentalist stronghold was perhaps inevitable. So we took it.; Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010; Tours of the nearby fundamentalist stronghold were perhaps inevitable. So we took it.
10 days, eight murders: Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010; By the time the photo of murder victim Contance Wiesner popped up on reporters’ screens—noon on January 11—eight people had been murdered in Vegas this year.
Heated discussion on nuclear history: Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010; We are this close to Armageddon!
Family fun—and guns: Scene from the new county gun park; Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009; It’s something to behold: a bunch of your fellow citizens triggering away for sport and trusting one another not to screw up.
Hats off to NDOT?: Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009; The Nevada Department of Transportation finished work on the I-15 ... early?
Hoping a $4.2 million ‘Wrong’ is right: Federal money has agencies scrambling to figure out ways to prevent homelessness; Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009; Federal money has agencies scrambling to figure out ways to prevent homelessness.
On spaying/neutering gerbils: Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009; Will the new Las Vegas city ordinance requiring that all cats and dogs be spayed or neutered apply to other household pets?
Thin gray man: Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009; Perception: Rory Reid has a head for policy and a personality for, um, policy. Reality: Papa Love is in the house!
A death draws attention to homeless panhandling on the Strip: Monday, Nov. 23, 2009; A few months ago, the corner of the Strip and Flamingo turned into the scene of a beating, and ultimately a murder.
It’s the pits: A mine proposed less than three miles from Anthem is drawing fire from residents and politicians alike; Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009; A mine proposed less than three miles from Anthem is drawing fire from residents and politicians alike.
Welcome to beautiful Henderson, er, Rochester?: Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009; Welcome to “Rochester” Nevada, located in Henderson... at least that's what Google Maps says. Stacy J. Willis reports on the textures of life there.
In praise of libraries: Books are only the beginning; Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009; The best thing about a library is that when the world breaks into pandemonium you can hide in the stacks.
Las Vegas appears to only be growing in intolerance: Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009; Hello, rising wave of intolerance, I haven’t seen you in a while. I was tempted to believe that momentarily we had dispatched with the villainization of gay people; because, yawn.
There's a battle over the hump in Pahrump: Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009; Pahrump—a town known for legal brothels and guns—is battling over the city’s image.
What’s wrong with a few fake dead children?: One Pahrump couple puts their fascination with death to good use—making custom coffins; Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009; One Pahrump couple puts their fascination with death to good use—making custom coffins
Death’s answer man: The spokesman for the Valley’s largest mortuary talks about cremation, neckties and his first embalming experience; Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009; The spokesman for the Valley’s largest mortuary talks about cremation, neckties and his first embalming experience.
Fresh, yes; easy, we’ll see: Notes on Alice Waters, local growing and the slow-food movement; Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009; Notes on Alice Waters, local growing and the slow-food movement.
Can Anybody Be Trusted?: How the story of Tire Works, Nina Radetich and the state of Nevada adds up to a farce about integrity; Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009; How the story of Tire Works, Nina Radetich and the state of Nevada adds up to a farce about integrity.
Tattoo U.: LV Ink offers hopeful artists a chance to start needling: Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009; Lemons, pig ears and then human flesh - the journey of aspiring tattoo artists.
A love note on the passing of another payphone: Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009; Stacy J. Willis responds to news that the Las Vegas City Council might remove the pay phone at Las Vegas Boulevard and Oakey because it attracts “unsavory characters" (Review-Journal).
Free parking, anyone? Monopoly World Championship rolls into Vegas: Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009; The Monopoly World Championships are coming to Las Vegas. Get your thimbles and wheelbarrows ready!
A hearty discount at Origin India ... but at what price?: My ethical dilemma over Yelping for cheap food; Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009; One writer's ethical dilemma over Yelping in exchange for discounted chicken tandoori.
One night, two stories: Slices of life from September 23: Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009; An uncomfortable speech at the Fifth Street School Wednesday night or writer Stephen Elliott, barefoot and wearing a gray T-shirt, at a backyard literary event. You pick who had the better night.
Eight things that would’ve been even funnier had I been stoned at Atlas Theatre’s production of "Reefer Madness": Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009; Adorable, drooling pit bulls are less adorable when they're not on the leash and we're not stoned.
Oh, and Jim Gibbons, too!: Harry Reid calls plans to dump California trash in Winnemucca a “threat to Nevada’s dignity.” Could there be others?; Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009; Harry Reid calls plans to dump California trash in Winnemucca a “threat to Nevada’s dignity.” Could there be others?
30-second chinchilla review: Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009; Is the fighting chinchilla our new “yo quiero” chihuahua? Our AFLAC duck? And what the hell does it have to do with Vegas?
Stripper Poles R Us: From dolls to Miley Cyrus, culture is raising the bar on a Vegas icon; Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009; Get your tween up on that stripper pole, preferably with grandma and a chunky boy clutching a bucket of Diet Pepsi in the other hand. The pole belongs to us! The people!
In this corner, Floyd Mayweather …: … in the other corner, so much else; Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009; Showmanship and boxing have always been united, but with Floyd Mayweather Jr. the nature of the show shifts, and at some point, objectively, the boxer is less boxer than multitasking reality star.
‘The good I can do outweighs the bad that can happen’: The jail ministry of chaplain Bonnie Polley poses a hard question: Why should we care about these people?; Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009; She’s a sweet little old lady, and her existence among the darkest lives in Vegas—daily with the homeless, criminal, mentally ill, lost, screwed-up, prostituting, pimping, addicted, hurting, violent people—is an alarming and exciting thing. It can’t be this simple: Nice Episcopalian housewife and mother of three spends her life holding the hands of the criminal and destitute because Jesus showed up and told her to.
Back (aaah) to (aaah) school (choo!): Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009; Back to school, and swine flu warnings abound. The paranoiacs among us are freaking out.
Where's the passion?: A health-care forum yields little drama, while a workshop on the domestic partnership law proves—too pragmatic; Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009; A health-care forum yields little drama, while a workshop on the domestic partnership law proves—too pragmatic.
Facebook: Local MugShots is giving Las Vegans a one-stop shop for all the city’s bad guys; Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009; Local MugShots is giving Las Vegans a one-stop shop for all the city’s bad guys.
Home in Vegas: CONSIDERED: bathrooms, community, America, your attitude, the eight ball, mother, hardship, responsibility, bugs, war, comfort, cops, neighbors, money, bureaucracy, the kindness of trees; Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009; Vegas has always been a peculiar place to call home. Upon deciding to move here, people often get a queer look from friends and family—Vegas? To live?
Giraffe at a bus stop: This moment is brought to you by Clark County Parks and Recreation, Friends of Winchester Park Public Art Committee and the Regional Transportation Commission; Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009; This moment is brought to you by Clark County Parks and Recreation, Friends of Winchester Park Public Art Committee and the Regional Transportation Commission...
Whole lotto love: Easy-money fever at the state line, with stubbly Howard and the Lexus kids; Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009; Easy-money fever at the state line, with stubbly Howard and the Lexus kids.
Catchy and Caribbean: Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009; There’s something super summery about Caribbean flavor in August. So imagine our delight to find that Las Vegas’ Super Summer Theatre is producing Once on This Island.
Money for Nothing: Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009; The riches-to-rags stats just keep pouring in. This time, it’s the sad decline in the number of Las Vegas millionaires, coupled with a boom in the number of Nevada food-stamp recipients.
Love This Website!: Thursday, July 30, 2009; Turning any media into print online seems a little off-kilter, but sometimes you just want to read a story.
Keeping the faith: To know more about Ensign the man, it helps to take a look at the company he keeps; Thursday, July 30, 2009; To know more about Ensign the man, it helps to take a look at the company he keeps.
Keep your sex away from our locals: One man’s fighting to prevent mobile billboards from encroaching on neighborhoods; Thursday, July 30, 2009; When Dean Dupalo saw mobile billboards featuring half-naked girls in his neighborhood, he felt a line had been crossed. “I could understand them traveling up and down the back streets, but certainly not roaming around residential areas,” he says.
You gotta see this: the Hoover Dam Bypass: Thursday, July 30, 2009; If you haven’t driven over the hoover Dam lately—and by driven we mean inched along at a torturously slow, environmentally damaging pace in traffic backed up to Vancouver—now’s the time to disregard all that, pile in the station wagon and add to the havoc.
Never-ending stories: Four missing people over 30 years, four lives with no closure. Police think a Las Vegas businessman may be involved. But with no bodies ever found, will we ever know what happened?; Thursday, July 23, 2009; Four missing people over 30 years, four lives with no closure. Police think a Las Vegas businessman may be involved. But with no bodies ever found, will we ever know what happened?
400 feet of NIMBY?: Or is there something essential about Searchlight’s anti-wind-farm sentiment?; Thursday, July 23, 2009; Or is there something essential about Searchlight’s anti-wind-farm sentiment?
Do your Girl Thing: Thursday, July 23, 2009; Political feminism? The elegantly feminine? Back-stabbing mean-girl themes? A dozen local artists are taking on the challenge interpreting “It’s a Girl Thing” in a new exhibit at Reed Whipple Cultural Center.

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