Members of Congress took steps last week to reduce the $1.4 billion that the Pentagon wants to strip from the nation’s military commissaries to save money, and active duty personnel and military retirees who buy groceries at the Nellis Air Force Base commissary share their point of view: The government must fulfill the promise it made when they signed up to serve the nation in time of need.
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The year-long program drug court program serves about 140 youth in the Clark County Department of Juvenile Justice Services at any given time. However, officials received notice in April that the federal grant that helps fund the program will no longer exist beginning July 1.
The 9-year-old college, tucked into an office park on Sunset Road, espouses having students taught by those employed in their respective fields.
Like the cannons she’ll be firing in field artillery training this summer, UNLV student Camille Castro has her sights set high for being among the first women to integrate the officer ranks of an Army combat arms unit.
Henderson residents at the Heritage Day Parade on April 26 probably had a few moments of deja vu — the city’s Police Department reintroduced the dormant black-and-yellow bicycle unit.
Jordan Coppert may be only a junior at Faith Lutheran High School, but he’s already impacting the lives of others. A member of the school’s football team, Coppert said he wanted students on financial aid to experience school sports. Inspired by a student he met from India, he decided to supply athletic equipment to those in need at Faith, 2015 S. Hualapai Way.
Free Comic Book Day brought about charity work in addition to its promise of free giveaways.
Henderson officials are introducing a new paid time-off system for nonunion employees to reduce the city’s post employment payout liability by millions of dollars.
A new era in how we handle The End has begun. Figures from the Cremation Association of North America show a 9 percent leap in people choosing that option from 2007 to 2012. The group estimates that by 2016 a majority of Americans — 55 percent — will select cremation over traditional burial.
Visitors will learn to walk and locals will have to make a paradigm shift, but no “traffic and parking nightmare” is envisioned for the MGM arena that’s now under construction in Las Vegas.