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Pelosi: Trump to impose Impeachment threatens No House vote on sanctions on Turkey for to create conflicts for impeachment inquiry military offensive in Syria Democratic candidates PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 Volume 21, Issue 34 October 16-22, 2019 Las Vegas lasvegastribune.com “ITRIBUNE may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” — Voltaire The Queensridge Quagmire: Badlands fight a bad deal for Vegas taxpayers By Chuck Muth green golf course. Who wouldn’t, Most people have at least heard right? of the monster-mash brawl between But that’s the problem. The golf the owner of the Badlands golf course property doesn’t belong to course in northwest Las Vegas the homeowners. It belongs to Mr. and the homeowners who bought Lowie. And he has the right to rede- million-dollar-plus luxury homes in velop the property into something the development that surrounds it. else — which the homeowners were But most people also don’t really told when they bought their homes. understand what the brouhaha is More on that later. all about. The minute terms such So the homeowners hired a as “inverse condemnation” are bunch of high-priced lawyers — the uttered, eyes glaze over. So let me most prominent of which, Frank try to clarify this murky swamp in Schreck, also just so happens to layman’s terms… be one of the homeowners — who The golf course owner, Yohan have filed a lawsuit to block Mr. Lowie, owns the land the golf Lowie from turning the green — course is on. He also owns the well, brown now since the course property right to redevelop that land has been closed for two years — into something that would be worth golf course into a pot of redevel- more than it is as a golf course. opment gold. The homeowners in the tony The homeowners have also Queensridge planned community, been pressuring the Las Vegas City however, want the golf course Council to change the zoning rules, owner to keep the plush-green golf after the fact, and force Mr. Lowie course in their backyards a plush- (See Queensrididge, Page 4) Chase is chasing neon tourism with modern Bonneville banking lounge By Denise Mraz ence throughout Nevada, hoping by how the Las Vegas community Las Vegas Tribune to get to 1 million customers in was very welcoming,” she said. Chase has opened its first branch Nevada by the end of 2019. “I’m grateful to the business own- in downtown Las Vegas at 411 E. At a ribbon-cutting celebration ers who introduced me to other Bonneville Avenue, joining the on Thursday, October 10, Malika business owners who shared with business community that is bring- Lees, the new branch manager, me the dos and don’ts of being in ing jobs and revitalization to the shared the excitement of opening downtown!” area, and benefitting tourists too. in downtown. Tourists from Texas Lees, who will be leading the The branch is the first of several walked in and were luckily able to team of employees adding about 10 planned for Clark County over the replace the cash they had lost from total employees to provide banking next few years that will add to the a theft the night before while visit- services to the downtown commu- current network of more than 50 ing Fremont Street due to a stolen nity, said customers have reacted branches in Nevada. Chase entered wallet. The branch employees were positively to the branch’s modern the Nevada market in 2008 when very helpful and overcame hurdles interior design, set up to provide it acquired Washington Mutual. Its from the loss of their ID, too. a more social experience, letting current plans are to grow its pres- Lees stated “I was overwhelmed (See Chase Opening, Page 3) Hunter Biden says he regrets actions that gave an opening for attacks on his father By Brett Samuels ethical people to act in illegal ways ed States that would be listening to front-runners for the 2020 Demo- than a “brief exchange.” The Hill to try to do some harm to my father. this ridiculous conspiracy idea,” cratic presidential nomination, and He did concede, however, that Hunter Biden, the son of former That’s where I made the mistake,” he added. he has consistently led Trump in hy- he likely benefitted from sharing a Vice President Joe Biden, said in Hunter Biden told ABC News. “So President Trump and Repub- pothetical head-to-head matchups. last name with a former vice presi- a rare interview broadcast early I take full responsibility for that. licans have engaged in a sus- Hunter Biden told ABC News dent, but defended his qualifications Tuesday that he made a mistake Did I do anything improper? No, tained campaign focused on Hunter that he did not regret his business to work on the board of a Ukrainian by getting involved with foreign not in any way. Not in any way Biden’s involvement with foreign ventures in China and Ukraine, gas company, given his experience companies, acknowledging that it whatsoever.” businesses to accuse him of profit- which have come under scrutiny as a vice chairman for Amtrak and provided an opening for critics to “What I regret is not taking into ing off his father’s office and paint from Republicans in recent weeks. work in the legal field. attack his father politically. account that there would be a Rudy the former vice president as corrupt. He also insisted that he did not dis- “I think that I had as much “I gave a hook to some very un- Giuliani and a president of the Unit- Joe Biden is among the cuss his work with his father other (See Hunter Biden, Page 2) Casting doubt on climate doomsayers By Thomas Mitchell The apocalypse is nigh. It must be so. It is in all the papers. Why even a 16-year-old Swedish scold lectured the delegates to the United Nations recently: “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words and yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suf- fering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you! “For more than 30 years, the science has Trump must invoke been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you’re doing enough when the politics and solutions — everything from an impending ice age to the Insurrection Act needed are still nowhere in sight.” rising oceans obliterating whole nations to By Mike Adams lawlessness and violence in America, as long If some pulpit-pounding preacher were to an ice-free Arctic to acid rain to killer bees. Natural News as that violence is directed at conservatives repeatedly predict the end of the world, only Of the 41, not a single one has come to pass, The lunatic, lawless Left is out of control. and Trump supporters. to have the world blithely continue unabated, but the congregation keeps shouting “Amen!” The corporate-run media has become a CIA (By the way, do you remember all the hype one would expect his congregation would “Think about that … the so-called experts propaganda front that ignores reality while to push “Net Neutrality?” It was supposed to shrink a bit. Not so with the climate change are 0-41 with their predictions, but those of fabricating fake stories to destroy America. protect dissenting voices and diverse views doomsayers. us who are skeptical of ‘expert’ prediction The tech giants despise free speech for con- on the ‘net. The tech giants pushed it aggres- Breitbart writer John Nolte recently put number 42, the one that says that if we don’t servatives while demanding “equality” for sively, and the moment Trump got elected, together a list of 41 environmental doomsday immediately convert to socialism and allow transgenders. And left-wing governors and those same evil tech companies like Google predictions dating from 1967 through 2014 (See Climate Doomsayers, Page 5) mayors are openly advocating Antifa-style (See Insurrection Act, Page 7) Page 2 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / October 16-22, 2019 Pelosi: No House vote on impeachment inquiry By Scott Wong and Mike Lillis testimony because they deem the vote, Democrats appeared to be The Hill inquiry illegitimate. He cited the near-unanimous in thinking there’s Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Democrats refusal to vote to launch no need to do so. Many warned said Tuesday she will not stage a the process on the floor — a step that it would create the impression vote on the House floor to officially that preceded the impeachment that Republicans were dictating the launch an impeachment inquiry into investigations into both Presidents terms of the process. President Trump, Nixon and Clinton. “I don’t consider it necessary The decision came after Dem- Pelosi, for months, had resisted myself,” said Rep. Tom Malinowski ocratic leaders, returning to Wash- even a mention of impeachment, (D-N.J.). “I think all these process ington following a two-week re- fearing the potential political harm arguments are diversions, put out cess, had reached out to members the issue could do to moderate there by people who don’t want to of their diverse caucus to gauge the Democrats facing tough reelections take about the substance because party’s support for such a vote. next year. That changed last month, the substance is so incredibly After back-to-back meetings after the airing of allegations from damaging.” between party leaders, and then a government whistleblower that The White House last week said the full caucus, Pelosi announced Trump had leveraged U.S.

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