CCSD police dispatcher transferred from post as new details emerge in Angela Peterson death case
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Not-so-quick draw
If the Las Vegas Metro Police Department responded to 911 calls the way it responds to public-records requests, the Bellagio Bandit would've had time to take in the "O" Show,…
Beyond reality TV
Las Vegas Metro has been featured on shows such as "Cops" and "Inside American Jail," but the big police department's latest TV co-production may be a better fit for "Law…
Courts asked to ‘foreclose’ on robo-signers
Nevada and other homeowners who've been foreclosed out of their properties may soon find they have some big bargaining chips to play against America's megabanks. Hager and Hearne, a Reno-based…
AG readies bid for subpoena powers over public bodies
Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto is preparing to ask the Nevada Legislature to change the state's open-meeting law. A task force formed by Masto has for months been in discussions…
State politicians take aim at Clark County handgun registration
Lawmakers have taken shots at the Clark County handgun registration program, but so far all of them have missed. State politicians on both sides of the political aisle are critical…
Back to the drawing board
State legislators are going back to the drawing board — literally. Census-data projections indicate Nevada will receive a fourth congressional district next year. So lawmakers are already tentatively redrawing the…
Why are most of Nevada’s registered voters in GOP districts?
Silver State politicians argue a lot about budget and funding gaps, but there’s one big gap most of the current crop of lawmakers prefer to ignore. It’s the gap between…
The CCSD machine
Is the Clark County School District a “political machine”? According to the widely used online encyclopedia, wikipedia.org, “A political machine … is a disciplined political organization in which an authoritative…
Money Pit
A lot of money has been thrown at Nevada's housing problem, but only some of it is hitting its mark. Since 2009, Nevada has been awarded more than $500 million…
The odds favor the pols
Just like at a casino, odds set by Silver State politicians favor the house. In February, responding to the 2010 decennial census, the Nevada Legislature will begin redrawing voting districts.…
What happened to One Person, One Vote?
LAS VEGAS — When poker players hold an awful hand, which no card will help, and yet they draw, it's called "drawing dead." Nevada's Republican lawmakers sitting down at the reapportionment…
‘It makes us all look ridiculous’
Did the Clark County School Board 10 years ago abandon its own authority? For a decade, the board has stiff-armed critics of Policy Governance®, the peculiar, trademarked governing model under…