‘Atrápame si Puedes’, Parte 5
El director - y las prácticas – que defiende el CCSD Read More
The Story of Linda and Sara
The story of Linda and Sara The daughter of a single mother, Linda, Sara is a twin. While her brother appears to be adequately served by his particular school in…
Fixing Special Ed, Part 8:‘Right of exit’ found key to genuine special-ed progress
In the late Sixties and early Seventies, when American courts — citing the U.S. Constitution — began flogging states and ultimately the U.S. Congress in the direction of what became…
What is IVGID so intent on hiding?
It’s not just public-record emails that Incline Village General Improvement District management is fighting to keep from the public. Top IVGID administrators have also been stonewalling efforts by two trustees…
IVGID officials caught in false testimony
Functionaries of Incline Village’s local government repeatedly insisted last week that their sudden scheme to destroy all emails to and from top executives after 30 days had the State of…
IVGID’s efforts to conceal public records gets bizarre
Has Incline Village’s often-criticized local government — the Incline Village General Improvement District, or “IVGID” — finally gone off the deep end? According to district staff, members of the public…
CCSD’s sexual-misconduct epidemic shows need for bargaining transparency
A recent epidemic of sexual-misconduct revelations has the Clark County School District scrambling to draft new policies. The new rules are intended to better govern communications between district employees and…
When reforms make headway, CCSD’s insider empire strikes back
In October 2013, the executive director of the administrators union for the Clark County School District was highly agitated over draft policy guidelines being offered for the school board’s review.…
Police union ‘tricks’ LVMPD into more millions for higher salaries, pensions
As if Clark County residents needed a reminder, the unrivaled political power of local government unions is again on full display. This time, the involved union is the Las Vegas…
CCSD’s systemic problem and its expensive consequences
In late September 2013, CCSD Trustee Erin Cranor came across information indicating that she and fellow trustees had been misled regarding the actual costs of an insurance contract the district…
CCSD’s systemic problem and its expensive consequences
It was 2009 when CCSD’s purchasing director let employees and consultants know she was intent on keeping district trustees in the financial dark. As reported earlier in this series, Bramby…
CCSD’s systemic problem and its expensive consequences
During the first six months of 2008, Ken Forrest, an independent consultant and the principal of the LDRShipSolutions firm, was employed as a top-level Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project advisor…
Is civil forfeiture a boon for law enforcement?
Senate Bill 358, currently under debate in the Nevada legislature, proposes to reform the law-enforcement practice of civil asset forfeiture. Civil asset forfeiture is controversial, in part, because of concerns…