The University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the University of Nevada, Reno have a serious building maintenance funding shortfall, on the order of more than $1 billion, as reported Friday by the Review-Journal’s Yesenia Amaro. Add in the College of Southern Nevada campuses, and there’s an additional $200 million in unfunded work.
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For all practical purposes, Nevada doesn’t have capital punishment. In the 36 years since Nevada reinstated the death penalty for its worst killers, just 12 inmates have been executed, none since 2006. Nevada’s only execution chamber was shut down when the state closed the Nevada State Prison. The Legislature won’t fund a new chamber, even though 83 men are on death row.
Las Vegas visitors can’t have an enjoyable experience if they don’t feel safe. And they won’t come here at all if they believe violence could erupt around them.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas is getting better and better about partnering with private industry to improve students’ employment prospects. The latest example of the school’s responsiveness is its consideration of a minor in drone technology.
Those who consider the U.S. Constitution a “living document,” subject to continual reinterpretation as society changes, like to point to the Third Amendment as proof the founding document is too dated to be read literally. “No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law,” the amendment reads.
Another sure sign that this country’s pet obsession is going off the rails: The Nevada Supreme Court heard 50 minutes of arguments Wednesday about a Henderson dog that killed a 1-year-old boy.
The Clark County Commission is considering an increase in the sales tax rate to prop up police services, but not in a way that honors the will of voters.
On reviewjournal.com today, Stan Veuger of the American Enterprise Institute and Robert Lang and William Brown of UNLV’s Brookings Mountain West address an important topic that generates precious little public debate: Federal funding of state and local government services.
It was Dipak Desai’s fault. It was always his fault.
If the city of North Las Vegas is ever going to return its government to a stable fiscal footing, it needs to stay out of court and limit taxpayer exposure to lawsuits.
We’ve heard it too many times to count since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act one year ago: ObamaCare is the law of the land.
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