Steve Miller (columnist)
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Steve Miller is a former Las Vegas city councilman and currently a columnist for AmericanMafia.com[1], an online magazine.
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[edit] 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.[2] 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.[3] In 1998, Miller was inducted into the Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame[4]. Austin eventually moved to Southern California, where he continued his career in the recording industry.[5]
Miller is credited with inventing the casino dice clock for his father's Las Vegas-based souvenir manufacturing business.[6] 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.[7]
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.[8]
| Preceded by Al Levy |
Las Vegas City Council Ward 1 1987 - 1991 |
Succeeded by Frank Hawkins |
[edit] External links
- Quoted in "THE 10 MOST CORRUPT CITIES IN AMERICA," George magazine, March 1998
- Steve Miller's official site
- Featured in Las Vegas CityLife, "Off the deep end"
