A reader — one of many similar — recently wrote in to complain, “They tell us that Social Security and Medicare are broken. The fact is the government used that money for wars and should have left the money in the so-called lock box. … I’m incensed that those programs are called entitlements. I paid into both, and I am entitled.”
Like most of you reading this today, I live in a neighborhood full of people who came here from someplace else.
After five State of the Union addresses by President Barack Obama, Republicans finally found a challenger who could stand and deliver a punch.
No policy issue before the Legislature holds as much promise for economic growth, job creation and an accelerated housing recovery as construction defect reform. The laws crafted to protect homeowners from the costs of shoddy workmanship have enriched lawyers and made housing more expensive, because builders have to recover the costs of their skyrocketing liability insurance premiums.
The clownish antics of Las Vegas Constable John Bonaventura — a man eminently unqualified to be in armed law enforcement, elected in a down-ticket race two years ago only because his name is similar to that of a well-known local judge — have gone past the merely embarrassing. Now this is getting dangerous.
The Clark County School District’s School Performance Framework is in conflict with the state of Nevada’s framework. The district’s framework (designed by Ken Turner, a special assistant to the superintendent and an outside consultant) will cause a great deal of confusion in the community when the state releases the results of its framework.
The real question about former Clark County Commissioner Chip Maxfield’s recently ended job at the defunct Clean Water Coalition is not why he was paid a salary or consulting fees for years after the agency lost its reason to exist.
