A New Jersey native, I have lived around the U.S. and abroad pursuing a career as a journalist and author for more than five decades. My credentials includes a Chartered Financial Analyst charter, a law degree and admission to the bar of two states. You can review my c.v., background and writings at www.williampbarrett.com. My investigative work occasionally has sent folks to jail or led to their regulatory sanction. In 2016 yet another relocation brought me from Seattle to the Las Vegas area. Over the past 50 years I have lived in seven states and 17 homes.

Please consider this blog a modest public effort to explore the essence of Las Vegas and its environs, in the spirit of my previous blog, New To Seattle.com. But as you will see, I often write about far-flung topics, too.

Along the way, my novel, OFFSIDE: A Mystery, was published. It’s about the murder of a weekend referee of youth soccer at the height of the California real estate bubble in 2006. Order it on Amazon/Kindle, Barnes & Noble/Nook, or Apple Books.

As it happens, I was a weekend referee of youth soccer (in New Mexico, California, Washington state and Nevada) for two decades. So far, my novel hasn’t proven to be personally prophetic.