Steve Miller (columnist)

Steve Miller (born c. 1944) is a former Las Vegas city councilman and currently a columnist for AmericanMafia.com,^[1] 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.^[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.^[3] On May 1, 2011, Miller and Austin were inducted into the Las Vegas Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as concert promoters and founders of the Teenbeat Club.^[5][6]

Miller has been credited with inventing the casino dice clock for his father's Las Vegas-based souvenir manufacturing business.^[7] The clocks were made in the USA until Miller's father, Hal, died and Miller and his mother closed the Miller Novelty Company in 1987, after 60 years in business.^{[citation needed]}

From 1974 through 1982, Miller was a certified flight instructor who taught at McCarran International Airport.^[8]

Miller served as a Las Vegas City Council member for Ward 1, which included the downtown area, from 1987 to 1991. He was also a former Clark County Regional Transportation Commissioner from 1988 - 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.^{[citation needed]}

Steve Is the Chairman Emeritus of Goodwill Industries of Nevada, and President Emeritus of Opportunity Village for people with intellectual disabilities.^{[citation needed]}