Imagine if the mainstream media’s current hurricane-sized obsession with scientific accuracy applied to gender.
District chief financial officer Jason Goudie estimated that the cost of column advancement over
two years is between $30 million to $45 million. It depends on how many teachers qualify.
How can the district pay for raises the legislature didn’t provide funding for? It can’t,
notwithstanding mumblings about better-than-expected interest earnings.
Over the weekend, an Elizabeth Warren-supporting socialist who opposed gun violence used a
rifle to commit a mass murder in Dayton, Ohio. The media has downplayed that aspect of the
tragedy.
Sen. Jacky Rosen is demanding a congressional hearing on why WNBA players don’t earn as
much as players in the NBA.
New Zealand banned most semi-automatic rifles just weeks after horrific shootings at two
Christchurch mosques. American gun grabbers hailed it as a model for this country. There’s just
one problem. The ban isn’t going as planned.
To the Founding Fathers, Douglass and King, freedom was the ability to do what you wanted, so
long as you don’t infringe on the rights of others. To Sanders, freedom is the ability to get things
you want, even if the government has to take from others to pay for them.
I’ve always viewed not keeping score in kids’ sports suspiciously. After all, the real world
rewards achievement and results, not intentions and feelings. Then I watched my son play t-ball.
An infamous flip-flop helped derail John Kerry’s presidential ambitions. Joe Biden needs to hope
he has more success with his recent flip-flop-flip.
At issue is a red flag law, which allows a court to order someone to turn over their firearms if they pose a threat to themselves or others. Narrowly tailored, these laws can be effective. But getting the details wrong can turn a good idea into a bad law. It’s a tough balancing act to design a law that allows the government to seize someone’s weapons while respecting an individual’s right to due process.
Democrats introduced Senate Bill 545 yesterday. It would move the proceeds from the sales tax
tax on the retail sale of marijuana into the Distributive School Account. Speaker Jason Frierson
said the move would send “about $120 million to the DSA over the biennium.” The Clark
County School District says it needs $120 million more to fund the raises promised by Sisolak.
Combine those two bits of information and it looks like a solution is in sight. In reality, this move doesn’t change education funding by one dime.
For months, the union has been laying the groundwork for a strike and on Tuesday, the union
emailed teachers seeking authorization a strike. Eventually.
“Starting next week, we’ll be holding an online strike vote. CCEA members will decide whether
to authorize a strike at the beginning of the next school year,” CCEA president Vikki Courtney
wrote.
State legislators will be setting Nevada’s two-year budget over the next four weeks. Proclaiming
there could be a strike in four months won’t create any sense of urgency.
Over the last two years, President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed was previewing many of the
findings of the just-released Mueller report. That’s both a good and bad thing for the president.
Last month, Rep. Ilhan Omar referred to the 9/11 terror attacks as “some people who did
something.”Omar is asserting that political criticism is the moral, if not legal, equivalent of calling for
violence.
On Wednesday, the Assembly Taxation Committee approved Assembly Bill 458. It would
remove the automatic growth provision of Opportunity Scholarships, which is a school choice
program for low-income families.
Nevada’s students have a major problem. They aren’t very good at reading. In 2017, just 31 percent of fourth graders were proficient at reading according to the National Assessment of Education Progress. The number proficient falls to 28 percent in eighth grade. Read by Three could change that. If a student can’t read at grade level by the end of third grade, he repeats the grade.
On Tuesday, Assembly Education Chairman Tyrone Thompson, D-North Las Vegas, presented a
bill revamping school discipline. Thompson’s bill would decrease the punishment faced by students who physically assault their teachers. The bill would prohibit a school from suspending or expelling a student who injured a teacher or sold drugs for the first offense, which is currently required. Instead, the school must provide a plan of “nonpunitive intervention and support.”
Kelvin Atkinson rocked the Nevada political world by resigning his state Senate seat and role as majority leader. Atkinson puts the blame on himself for misusing campaign funds. His resignation begs the questions, who else was involved?
David Parks and Joyce Woodhouse are each receiving six-figure pensions from the Public
Employees’ Retirement System. Now, they’re co-sponsoring a bill to prevent you from finding
out how much retirees like them will collect going forward.
If an abortionist — armed with scissors, clamps and a vacuum cleaner — can’t kill a baby while she’s still in the womb, he shouldn’t get another chance after she’s born. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen disagree.
The implication of a revised funding formula is that school districts and
teachers will receive substantially more money. But revising the funding formula will only
rearrange who gets the existing money. In 2016, Nevada’s smallest five school districts received
less than $15 million in state funding. That’d barely be a rounding error in the Clark County
School District’s $2.4 billion budget.
The Federal Reserve found that Nevada’s Public Employees’ Retirement System has an
unfunded liability of $43.3 billion in 2016. For context, Gov. Steve Sisolak is proposing a two-
year general fund budget of $9 billion.
Some Nevada Democrats aren’t satisfied with having a Democrat governor and large legislative
majorities. They also want to ignore the constitution to make it easier to raise taxes.
Governor Steve Sisolak signed an executive order on his first day. This executive order was made to combat sexual harassment and Aaron Ford will lead the new task force. However, Aaron Ford is not the best choice for the position
In North Carolina, witnesses say that Leslie McCray Dowless Jr., a political consultant, paid people to pick up absentee ballots from voters. But what’s illegal in North Carolina — third parties collecting ballots — is legal in California.
It’s called “ballot harvesting.”
Victor Joecks discusses the results of Quebec’s Universal Child Care act passed in 1997 and it’s effects today.
Listen to some politicians and you’d think that America’s wealth should be a source of anger, not
thanksgiving.
Yesterday, the Nevada’s Public Employees’ Retirement System increased next year’s
contribution rates for regular employees from 28 percent to 29.25 percent. The contribution rate
for police and fire employees is going from 40.5 percent to 42.5 percent. Employers and
employees split the contribution increases. This means government employees will see a drop in
take home pay while government agencies simultaneously experience cost increases.
Steve Sisolak is promising to use his new offices to implement Nevada’s stalled background
check initiative. He hasn’t said , however, how he’s going to do it. There’s a reason for that. He
can’t — unless he wants to weaken Nevada’s current background checks.
The scariest thing you’ll see this Halloween won’t be a costume. It’s the outrage mob on the
prowl looking for children who dare to dress up as someone who doesn’t share their skin tone.
Victor Joecks discusses President Obama’s Las Vegas speech.