Perhaps disgraced Family Court Judge Steven Jones does feel shame. On Tuesday, he formally withdrew his candidacy for re-election and thus ensured that, at worst, he’ll be out of office in less than a year.
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They flirted. They formed contingency plans for the breakup. And at one point, they pretty much had broken up. But once they got down to talking, once they had a good look at the grass on the other side of the fence, they realized anew they were perfect for each other.
A federal court filing from last month is a perfect symbol of the secrecy surrounding the slow-moving fraud investigation into the takeover of local homeowners association boards.
America’s colleges and universities are supposed to be marketplaces of ideas, places where students sharpen their critical thinking skills through robust debate. However, far from encouraging free expression, campuses across the country and right here in Nevada increasingly embrace heavy-handed, politically correct policies that discourage and even prohibit protected speech.
Much of what ails our K-12 education system can be solved by choice. If every parent had options beyond an underperforming neighborhood school, or had the ability to move children from an average school to a great one, improved outcomes would follow.
To get rid of inactive, unneeded government boards, we needed — you guessed it — yet another board.
One heckuva story is sitting inside the piles of data held by the Nevada Public Employees Retirement System. We know this because the agency that oversees the state’s pension fund is determined to hide that data from the public — so much so that it has defied a Nevada Supreme Court order to release information on the taxpayer funded benefits provided to government retirees.
A couple of weeks ago, North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee said his financially strapped municipality wouldn’t surrender to state control, despite having just $9 million in reserves and a total annual budget of $481.5 million. “We don’t have to find dollars,” the new mayor told the Review-Journal’s Laura Myers and James DeHaven. “We just have to find a lot of dimes.”
The Clark County School District made one ethics complaint go away, but that whitewash has spawned four similar complaints, including two lodged last week, alleging School Board members used taxpayer resources to campaign for a property tax increase in 2012.
In the late afternoon of Jan. 10, Heather Price Papayoti of Phoenix became the seventh person to commit suicide at the Hoover Dam bypass bridge, falling 900 feet to the Colorado River below.
Las Vegas is a big-league town without a big-league team. But the city is so confident that sports would jump-start Symphony Park’s development that it’s willing to spend public money on an arena to lure at least one franchise downtown.
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