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Sometimes minority controls the power

The infighting among Clark County commissioners erupted again Tuesday over the county hospital, which is predicted to have an $87 million loss in 2014, a $20 million drop from 2012 and yet another sign the hospital is hemorrhaging.

Straight answers scare in HPN trial

Every so often in a trial where a jury has found that a company’s behavior has put people in harm’s way, you can find exchanges between an attorney and a key witness that seem to capture that company’s embarrassment and shame.

HPN jury knew what they were doing

Remember the Ford Pinto scandal in the 1970s, when people died because Ford executives knew the car’s fuel tank was deadly, yet after a cost-benefit analysis decided it was cheaper to pay out settlements than to fix the millions of Pintos on the road?

Cars not registered? Tattle to Fair Share

Of all the things you would think would drive people wild, someone else’s failure to register his or her car in Nevada seems like it would fall low on the list of major irritations.

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Gas tax fuels speculation about Brooks’ Assembly successor

Whoever is chosen Tuesday to inherit Steven Brooks’ Assembly District 17 seat is going to be a loyal Democrat, willing to be “guided” by Democratic Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick. That’s a given.

Need for Pepto not going away

Chances are better than good that you or someone in your family has already suffered from it. It really doesn’t surprise you all that much when it happens –– cramps, diarrhea, vomiting.

Vacant property registry paying dividends around valley

The city of Las Vegas, the epicenter for squatters, was the first to pass a bill making lenders responsible for vacant homes in limbo because the foreclosure process hasn’t been finalized.

Squatters, police vex rental owner

It took more than six weeks for Leon McKittrick to get six squatters out of a rental home he owns in Las Vegas.

Pain, empathy and a girl’s gift

When 11-year-old Mackenzi Moers receives an intravenous blood product designed to boost her fragile immune system –– every three weeks her condition, called hypogammaglobulinemia, requires her to undergo a taxing six-hour regimen that supplies her with antibodies to help fight infection –– she is troubled by what she sees.

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