Las Vegas is Home

Hello all!

Welcome to Home Turf Media’s latest city-based blog, Las Vegas is Home.

I’m Paul Geary and I’ll be blogging about anything and everything Las Vegas. While the blog will come from a resident’s perspective, tourism is obviously a main staple of Vegas’s economy and happenings that will interest visitors will be part of the landscape here. Anything and everything that impacts people in Vegas will be fair game (though we’ll keep it PG rated). While it may be true that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, what we talk about here will be available worldwide, to anybody who’s interested in coming here for the vacation of a lifetime, or to stay for a lifetime.

Like most people who live in the Vegas Valley, I’m from somewhere else: Boston. If you’ve taken our monorail, you’ve heard the stat that 150,000 people lived here in 1970, and that number is now nearly 2 million. In fact, more than half of the people serving in the Nevada Legislature were not born in Nevada.

I’ve lived in several cities in the northeast as well as California and Texas, and I’ve chosen Las Vegas as my home. It’s vibrance, culture, diversity, and dynamism rival that of America’s great cities. Las Vegas has become much more than a tourist town - a fact that would surprise the tourist who spends a week not veering from the Strip. (Of course, there’s enough to do on the Strip to keep one busy for at least a week.)

Please feel free to contact me with comments, opinions, and ideas about what you’d like to see covered here. Let’s make this interactive - more stuff from more people will make this blog as informative as it can be. I look forward to hearing from all the fans of Vegas as well as the rest of you!

Paul