The state’s higher education system spent enough money this past spring searching for new presidents at three colleges and universities to pay the full tuition for a dozen students at those schools for their entire degree programs.
The “private sector is doing fine,” is what President Obama said a few weeks back. He went on to say that local and state governments are responsible for the struggling economy.
House Republicans last week backed off a threat to block enforcement of new Federal Communications Commission rules involving TV broadcasters and political ads.
Celebrity stories hang like stale cigarette smoke in the dusty, dead Atomic Liquors lounge in downtown Las Vegas.
Entertainers Barbra Streisand, Burt Reynolds and Tom and Dick Smothers are said to have graced the squat, brick hut just a few blocks east of Fremont Street’s flashy casino lights.
Leonard “Pat” Goodall surprised me when he said the five years he was president of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas was the job he enjoyed the most during his academic career. Those were years of controversy, yet years where Goodall thought he did the most good.
Every man has his breaking point, and Elias Garcia Vicente, it would seem, has reached his. After five years of hustling for jobs in Las Vegas, the undocumented immigrant from Mexico’s Gulf Coast is calling it quits and heading back home to Veracruz.