Jane Ann Morrison

Museum informs, entertains thousands

Touring the Discovery Children’s Museum with a group of first-graders from Givens Elementary School seemed like a smart idea. I could follow them around, watch their reactions, see what they liked best. It would be a reality-based column.

Loss of nonprofit status foolish

The UMC Foundation losing its nonprofit status is more of an embarrassment than a serious problem for the organization, but somehow it doesn’t inspire confidence. It makes one wonder: Who is minding the store?

Working for comic had a few laughs

It’s not like it’s a dirty little secret, but Robin Skone-Palmer seldom brings up that she was a personal secretary for comedian Phyllis Diller and knows the ups and downs of working for a celebrity.

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.

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?