Survey: Health insurance costs outpace wage gains

Workers saw a modest rise in the average cost of employer-sponsored health insurance this year, but they’re probably not overwhelmed with relief.

Education must be No. 1 priority

I’m starting this month’s column with a story and then offering an opinion. As you might know if you’ve read this column on occasion, I prefer stories to opinions, because everyone will give you an opinion and not everyone will give you a story. But I received an email recently from a reader who said that while she enjoyed my stories, she was interested in hearing more of my opinions.

Court might settle disaster in North Las Vegas after all

The resignations last week of North Las Vegas City Manager Tim Hacker and City Attorney Jeffrey Barr were not surprising — voters replaced Mayor Shari Buck earlier this year with John Lee, and change was in the air.

The hubris of do-gooders

Here’s the book on American liberals: All in all, they are a good-minded group set upon the mistaken idea that big government (namely, Washington, D.C.) can more efficiently and effectively look after citizens than citizens themselves.

Repeating pay-raise mistakes

Everyone wants a pay raise. A highly productive, fortunate few of us might actually get one.

Report says Nevada charter schools lag in academic performance

Nevada charter school students test worse and spend less time learning than the vast majority of their peers, according to a study released last month by Stanford’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes.

Historic landmarks win protection in graffiti law

Good news for valley residents: Graffiti laws got tougher. Bad news for vandals: Some offenders could face Class D felony charges.

New school year to bring challenges and changes

When students go back to school Aug. 26, there will be more of them than the Clark County School District has ever had. Newly hired Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky said he expects 312,700 students.

 
Author Elmore Leonard dies at 87

Elmore Leonard, the beloved crime novelist whose acclaimed best-sellers and the movies made from them chronicled the violent deaths of many a thug and con man, has died. He was 87.

Comedian Peters has friends in high places

Las Vegas comedian Russell Peters just got back from filming a movie in Miami with Jon Favreau, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sofia Vergara and John Leguizamo.

Las Vegas 12-year-old swats 11 homers in a row at Cooperstown tourney

Last week, a big kid with a mop of blond hair named Trace Evans hit a home run in 11 consecutive official at-bats to power the Las Vegas Baseball Academy Lightning to the championship of a 104-team tournament at Cooperstown Dreams Park.

Kurt Busch taking nothing for granted in Chase quest

Less than a decade removed from a championship in NASCAR’s top series, Kurt Busch is an underdog now. It’s a role he seems plenty comfortable with.

Man faces 26 years of prison after “assassination” of mother

On Monday during his sentencing hearing, Jeff Wilson blamed police for not arresting him sooner and told Judge David Barker he hoped to have a relationship with his family some day. That will have to wait at least two dozen years. Jeff Wilson was sentenced to 26 years to life in prison.

Salvation Army helps kids get back-to-school

Backpacks and reams of paper and glue sticks and scissors and colored pencils and crayons and Ziplocks and paper towels and folders and erasers and tissues and a three-ring binder to the exact specifications required.

UMC questions arrival of patient discharged from California psychiatric hospital

A woman discharged from a California mental hospital was left at University Medical Center’s emergency room Saturday afternoon, prompting hospital officials to question California authorities about the circumstances of her mysterious arrival in Las Vegas.

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