CCSD’s systemic problem and its expensive consequences
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Pay of Nevada’s public-school employees, versus private sector, is 4th highest in U.S.
LAS VEGAS — As teacher union activists push for a heavy new tax on Nevada’s private-sector employers, federal data is showing that the state’s public K-12 education sector is actually…
Mesquite online paper wins legal recognition
Two Judges in Clark County Eighth District Court, Michael Villani and Rob Bare, ruled this week that the Mesquite Citizen Journal is indeed a newspaper and therefore covered by the…
The actual history of Nevada’s ban on state gifts to private companies
LAS VEGAS — It’s long been agreed in Nevada that the state constitution’s prohibition against state subsidies to private business means just what it says: The State shall not donate…
Nevada’s Catalyst Fund: Millions pledged without signed contracts
LAS VEGAS — With much ado and fanfare, Nevada public officials have aggressively touted subsidies from the state’s $10 million Catalyst Fund incentive program to numerous companies that say they…
The ‘moles’ still infest Nevada Obamacare
LAS VEGAS — In mid-October, two weeks after the launch of Nevada’s Obamacare website — NevadaHealthLink.com — its director was comparing all the problems surfacing to the Whac-a-Mole arcade game.…
Reid video compilation: ‘If you like the coverage you have, you can keep it’
How Harry Reid and Senate Democrats misrepresented the Affordable Care Act
Barack Obama wasn’t the only high-profile public figure who repeatedly misled Americans about the “health reform” legislation that Democrats were trying to push through Congress in 2009. Nevada’s Harry Reid,…
Summer of 2009: How Reid misled America from the Senate floor
2009-6-10 Mr. REID… Democrats are committed to ensuring all Americans can choose their doctors, hospitals, and health plans. No matter what the Republicans claim, this government has no intention of…
Once-supportive, Hispanics turning backs on Obama, ACA
MIAMI – They were among President Obama’s best supporters, but support for the president and his signature health insurance scheme is quickly dying among Hispanics. A recent Gallup poll showed…
Truth-shading Reid awarded ‘Pinocchios’
LAS VEGAS — “All I did was follow the law,” protested Sen. Harry Reid. He was being pressed by Reno-area reporters last week about a story CNN had just broken.…
Harry Reid’s inadvertent gift to Obamacare foes
LAS VEGAS — Throughout the media firestorm over the Affordable Care Act’s botched October rollout, nearly all attention has been on implementation failures of the Obama White House and the…
Likelihood that Obamacare data hub won’t be breached ‘approaches zero,’ says risk-management expert
LAS VEGAS — If you sign up for Obamacare through Nevada’s state-based health insurance exchange, is — or is not — your private financial information at risk? To hear Jon…