It’s train week at Somerset Academy of Las Vegas, 7038 Sky Pointe Drive.
One of Gabriel Bristol’s first memories is of being outside a police station in Texas, standing alone in the light of a single streetlamp looking out into the darkness that surrounded him. His mother had been arrested for heroin possession and prostitution.
Rather than sleep in or play games on the first day of winter break, eight children were excited to learned about rocket science with College of Southern Nevada instructor Gene Kelly.
“Too often, public education has meant going to the school you are assigned based on your address to see the principal who was assigned to that school by a large system and have your children taught by teachers who were also assigned by the large system,” said Academica Nevada representative Ryan Reeves. “A charter school feels different when you walk in because every single person there made a voluntary decision to be there. Every parent, student, teacher, administrator chose to be there.”
Marqueze Coleman’s 18-foot jumper with 4.8 seconds remaining lifted the Wolf Pack to a 64-62 upset of the Rebels on Wednesday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Somehow, UNR was able to close the deal Wednesday at the Thomas & Mack Center. The Wolf Pack managed to stay step for step with UNLV for 40 minutes, and David Carter’s team did enough things right to escape with a 64-62 victory.
UNLV lost to UNR in basketball again on Wednesday night, and that was a bad thing if you were Rebels coach Dave Rice, who takes a ration of grief — or something like it — whenever the Rebels stub a toe against the lesser squads of the Mountain West Conference.
While traffic fatalities declined slightly in Southern Nevada in 2014, deaths rose by nearly 7 percent in the state as a whole. Data released this week showed that 284 traffic fatalities occurred on Nevada roads in 2014, an increase of 18 deaths over 2013.
One of the most urgent tasks before the 2015 Legislature is collective bargaining reform. The question isn’t whether lawmakers should change the way public employee unions negotiate for compensation and job protections, but how far they should go in rewriting state law.