October 9, 2012

Dr. Robert Lang, UNLV Director, Brookings Mountain West
Robert E. Lang joined the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in January 2010 as a professor of sociology and UNLV Director of Brookings Mountain West.

Our speaker gave a rapid fire dissertation of the issues affecting Clark County as they relate to funding and relevance   He thinks it is crazy that Clark County produces most of the wealth and then sends it to Carson City for parceling out.  At least that's what I got out of it.  Unfortunately he did not offer any solid solutions, just that Nevada needs to re-organize its political structure.  It was also unfortunate that he bolted before any Q & A.  We could have had a long discussion of the issues he raised.  Still, he has examined communities all over the country and comes to his ideas from a wealth of knowledge.

Bill reminded us of the Awards program started during his term.  Ken announced we would not have a tail gate party this year due to a conflict.  And I was looking forward to some power house football...from the visiting team. He will be planning a Red Rock clean-up.  Ted's happy fine was his grandmother's 101st birthday.  Also a 30" brown trout he caught on the Truckee river.  Some were pushing for a total of $ 131 as a fine, but he didn't fall for it and just coughed up a couple of bucks.  We had 3 birthdays, Francie, Lynn Price and Lynn Purdue, pretty sweet 16's all!  Ken Fong was not there to sing Happy Birthday, and efforts to recruit Caitlin failed.  Brett was not available for Brett's corner, because he was teeing off at 1:30.  That should have left plenty of time for Rotary, I think.  Big fine next week.  Ken's Rant was supposed to have filled in, but amazingly he could not think of one.  Doesn't seem possible.

We had 14 members and 1 guest.