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Back in June, CityLife reported on the inauspicious beginning of Gov. Jim Gibbons’s Commission on Minority Affairs. With no funding, no staff and, apparently, no idea what they’re doing, the nine new commission members — who replaced the former do-nothing minority commission empaneled back in 2003 — spent their second meeting June 6 in Las Vegas debating. And debating.

Commissioners, who come from each of Nevada’s largest minority communities (Asian, Hispanic, American Indian, black, together comprising 47.5 percent of the state population, according to 2006 census figures), worried out loud that the general public might never learn of the great work they plan to do, when they eventually hope to study the needs of Nevada’s minorities and how to meet them. Also, they wanted business cards.

Well, no word yet on whether commissioners have scored those coveted business cards, but they finally have a website. The information on the site is pretty sparse (there’s no mention yet of their tentatively scheduled Aug. 8 meeting here in Las Vegas), but hey, it’s a better start than their predecessors, who never compiled demographic data to guide policy makers in helping Nevada’s minorities, who never took on entrenched business and government interests, who never did much of anything.