If the Clark County School District’s human resource department had gotten its way, Jason Wright, the teacher accused of kicking a student, never would have been a teacher. Jason Wright, however, is the husband of Trustee Deanna Wright, who’s now School Board president.
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Records, including police body camera footage, from the October 1 tragedy should be released immediately. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department needs to be more transparent and more gun control isn’t needed to increase security on the Strip. That’s according to sheriff candidate Tim Bedwell.
A debt of gratitude to Kanye West
A fifth-grade student says Jason Wright, a Clark County School District teacher and the husband of Board President Deanna Wright, kicked and yanked him in early March.
Last Thursday, Trustees held a press conference and demanded that Gov. Brian Sandoval call a special session to provide money for teacher raises. District officials used outright falsehoods to make their case.
My Uber driver to the White House Correspondents Association dinner Saturday night was an Iranian journalist jailed for four years in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison and sentenced to 60 lashes.
Unless it involves killing unborn children, liberals aren’t much for choice these days. Consider what’s happening to Alfie Evans in England, which is even more a lefty paradise than California.
When he ran for president, candidate Donald Trump promised to hire “the best people” and said he would look at potential Cabinet members’ “track record, great confidence, love of what they’re doing, how they get along with people, references.”
If Russian officials were fixing the election, who would they have been rooting for?
The Clark County School District is interviewing six superintendent candidates on Friday, and Trustees say they’ll offer the job to someone next Wednesday. Regardless of whom they select, here are three things you already know about the district’s next superintendent.
And the U.S. economy has taken off
Republican Attorney General candidate Craig Mueller says his primary opponent has been “inert” in the face of increasing crime. Mueller also pledged to take on the federal government if it came after Nevada’s recreational marijuana industry and fight to get federally owned lands returned to the state.
Most politicians would do anything they could to avoid disparaging veterans. Rep. and U.S. Senate candidate Jacky Rosen isn’t most politicians, and Sen. Dean Heller wants to make sure you know about it.
An odd thing is happening in President Donald Trump’s America. Over time, his rivals turn into their own versions of The Donald. No greater example exists than James Comey, the FBI chief whom Trump fired last year.
Last legislative session was the most anti-business session in Nevada’s history. In response, the Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce decided to endorse some of the Democrats who voted consistently against its members.