Steve Miller (columnist)

Steve Miller is a former Las Vegas city councilman and currently a columnist for AmericanMafia.com [ [http://www.americanmafia.com/ AmericanMafia.com] ] , an online magazine.

Early life and career

Miller was born in California and raised in Las Vegas. He graduated in 1962 from Las Vegas High School.

While still a teenager, Miller and partner Keith Austin built and operated the Teenbeat Club. [ [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=25644 Wisconsin History web site] ] That led to an early career as a broadcaster from 1962 through 1966 when he and Austin hosted the Teenbeat Club television program each Saturday on KLAS. [ [http://www.therockfiles.net/aboutus.shtml TheRockFiles.net] ] In 1998, Miller was inducted into the Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame [ [http://www.nevadabroadcasters.org/hall-of-fame/past.php Nevada Broadcasters web site] ] . Austin eventually moved to Southern California, where he continued his career in the recording industry. [ [http://www.therockfiles.net/aboutus.shtml TheRockFiles.net] ]

Miller is credited with inventing the casino dice clock for his father's Las Vegas-based souvenir manufacturing business. [ [http://lasvegas.citysearch.com/feature/22652/ Dice Clocks] ] The clocks were made in the USA until Miller's father, Hal, passed away and Miller and his mother closed the Miller Novelty Company in 1987, after 60 years in business.

From 1974 through 1982, Miller was a certified flight instructor who taught at McCarran International Airport. [ [http://www.stevemiller4lasvegas.com/saratoga.htm stevemiller4lasvegas.com] ]

Miller served as a Las Vegas City Council member for Ward 1, which included the downtown area, from 1987 to 1991. Instead of running for reelection, he ran for mayor, which he lost. In 1991, Miller was voted Most Effective Public Official in the "Las Vegas Review-Journal"'s annual reader's poll. [ [http://www.lvstriphistory.com/ie/webring.htm Webrings and Links - Las Vegas Strip History ] ]

External links

* [http://www.nevadaindex.com/7george1.htm Quoted in "THE 10 MOST CORRUPT CITIES IN AMERICA," "George" magazine, March 1998]
* [http://www.stevemiller4lasvegas.com/biog.html Steve Miller's official site]
* [http://www.lvcitylife.com/articles/2007/08/17/news/cover/iq_16042937.txt Featured in "Las Vegas CityLife", "Off the deep end"]

References

Further reading

* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1560256648 "The Last Honest Place in America: Paradise and Perdition in the New Las Vegas"]