America’s colleges and universities are supposed to be marketplaces of ideas, places where students sharpen their critical thinking skills through robust debate. However, far from encouraging free expression, campuses across the country and right here in Nevada increasingly embrace heavy-handed, politically correct policies that discourage and even prohibit protected speech.
The bills are in the mail or they will be soon, Nevada health insurance exchange officials said Friday after a computer glitch delayed February premium notices from being sent out on time.
More than two years after being hit and run over by a school bus, a former Canyon Springs High School student will receive $100,000 as part of a settlement with the Clark County School District.
National and international economic fears converged to start a two-day rout in global markets this week, capped by a 318-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average Friday.
Don Snyder will take the helm at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as acting president beginning on Feb. 1.
Much of what ails our K-12 education system can be solved by choice. If every parent had options beyond an underperforming neighborhood school, or had the ability to move children from an average school to a great one, improved outcomes would follow.
A judge on Friday ordered a Texas hospital to remove life support for a pregnant, brain-dead woman whose family had argued that she would not want to be kept in that condition.
It was 7 p.m. on the nose when Kevin Durant, Tiger Woods and various other nonfootball stars became Super Bowl betting subjects. The giant board went dark for a few seconds, then suddenly it lit up like a fireworks show on New Year’s Eve as hundreds of proposition bets scrolled.
For the second straight year, the Ram 1500 has been named Motor Trend’s Truck of the Year.
A Seattle teenager says he was fired after being sent home from work for wearing a Broncos jersey.
Pardee Homes’ LivingSmart Homes Providence in northwestern Las Vegas features new homes priced from the mid-$200,000s, including a limited number of move-in-ready homes.
Rick Piette of Premier Mortgage Lending was named the 2013 Affiliate Member of the Year by the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors. The longtime Southern Nevada mortgage professional received the award for supporting the association and contributing to the real estate industry.
Editor’s note: Barbara Holland takes a break from her Q&A format for the next two weeks to discuss the U.S. District Court ruling on HOA nine-month superlien law.
Q: My mother, 95, received a letter from the Clark County assessor’s office showing an increase in the value of her home by 13 percent and property by 18 percent over last year. I looked around at the sale prices of area homes and find them all over the place, but a few standing out really low and one standing out as an absurdly high price. In particular, one house on our street sold for $5.5 million. (Yep, that’s what the assessor’s office recorded.) And the same “exact” house next to it sold for $183,000 and was assessed at a taxable value at that amount. These are both four-bedroom, two-story homes, while my mother’s house is a three-bedroom, one-story home assessed at a taxable value of $148,392, about a 1,000 square feet less.
Editor’s note: Listings include the resale home’s parcel number. Occasionally, the address listed is the homebuyer’s mailing address and not the actual location of the home. Check the parcel number to make sure. Also, a few transactions do not reflect the market value of the homes.
Commercial and residential real estate numbers are on the rise in Las Vegas, and Veer Towers on the Strip is helping to lead the way. Less than one year after beginning sales, Pordes Residential Sales and Marketing closed on 100 units at Veer Towers.
Q: A neighbor I didn’t know died three months ago. Her house has been vacant. I heard she has a daughter but don’t know how to contact her and have never seen anyone at the house.
Executives at Harmony Homes said its Bella Fiore community at Lake Las Vegas has only seven lots left.
Pulte Homes will host a grand opening on four model homes today in its newest community in the southwest valley, Coldwater Crossing. Festivities are scheduled from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The long-awaited land deal underlying the massive Union Village project was completed this week when the city of Henderson sold 158 acres to the developer.
It’s easy to find reasons to complain about cars on the road that aren’t your own. Here are 10 to think about the next time you’re stuck in the Spaghetti Bowl.
A “shocked” Mackenzie Warren, a rising star at NBC affiliate KSNV-TV, Channel 3, confirmed on Friday she was let go on Thursday.
Officials at South Carolina State University say a student who was shot outside an on-campus dormitory has died.
With the 2005 closure of the east-side Gobel-Lowden Veterans Center & Museum, and no action to revive it in sight, the Greenspun-Radin Jewish War Veterans Post 21 has taken it upon itself to see that a new museum is opened.
Using steam to melt the ice, investigators searched the frozen-over ruins of a retirement home Friday for victims of a fire that left at least eight people dead and about 30 missing.
The National Finals Rodeo will remain in Las Vegas through 2024 after Las Vegas Events and the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association reached agreement on a new 10-year contract Friday.
