LVMPD going rogue on violent-crime statistics?
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How Nebraska’s federal land entered the private domain
Just one month apart, in 1864, Congress passed the acts enabling the residents of the Nevada and Nebraska territories to apply for statehood. Each act had exactly the same disclaimer…
Study: More Medicaid eligibility = fewer workers
LAS VEGAS — The Obamacare-linked expansion of Medicaid in Nevada that Gov. Brian Sandoval and state lawmakers pushed into Nevada law this year is likely to reduce Silver State employment, suggests…
School board members should be exempt from ethics law, since trustees serve ‘the children,’ says CCSD lawyer
LAS VEGAS — Requiring members of the Clark County School District Board of Trustees to obey Nevada’s Ethics in Government law, says CCSD’s top lawyer, could keep those members from doing…
Environmentalism vs. the environment
LAS VEGAS — The Lake Tahoe Basin — its residents are ceaselessly told — has suffered much environmental damage over the decades. Rarely mentioned, however, is a remarkable fact: Much…
Ethics commission summons CCSD’s Edwards, Haldeman to answer for Question 2 shenanigans
LAS VEGAS — The Nevada Commission on Ethics has summoned Carolyn Edwards, president of the Clark County School District board of trustees, and Joyce Haldeman, CCSD’s top lobbyist and head of…
Feds’ war on Western ranchers’ water rights takes a body blow
LAS VEGAS — Out in the American West, it’s not hard to find ranchers who’ll tell you that federal land agencies and U.S. Justice Department lawyers have in recent decades been…
CCSD employees in hot water over gun on campus
LAS VEGAS — Two Clark County School District employees face possible criminal charges over allegations that they possessed, sold and/or exchanged handguns on a high school campus recently. The case — turned…
In Tahoe face-off with California, Nevada retreats
LAS VEGAS — Has the Lake Tahoe Compact been saved? Do the announced compromises between Nevada and California — repeatedly hailed by lawmakers in Carson City following the May 14 agreement…
Former CCSD officials try to create a unique charter school
LAS VEGAS — In a state where thousands of public school English-language-learner students fall out of the system every year, a charter school dedicated to those students’ English acquisition, credit retrieval…
Proposed amendment would preserve Tahoe compact
LAS VEGAS — A high-stakes amendment intended to keep Nevada in the controversial bi-state Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) was proposed today by Gov. Brian Sandoval, Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick…
Could disregard of the U.S. Constitutionby Harry Reid end up dooming Obamacare?
LAS VEGAS — The last time Obamacare was challenged before the U.S. Supreme Court, it barely survived. Only because Chief Justice John Roberts creatively re-construed the law’s unconstitutional penalties as constitutional…
Nevada clean-energy entrepreneur faces hostile bureaucracies, subsidized competitors
LAS VEGAS — Mike Little was captain of his Division I college football team. He’s also an accomplished architect. But what he’s most passionate about, the potential of his green-energy…