The likely upcoming departure of North Las Vegas’ city manager will cost taxpayers of that municipality more than $337,000 at a time when the city has been forced to eliminate positions, postpone projects and ask workers to defer cost-of-living raises.
Wendell Potter, the former health insurance executive turned critic, was telling me last week that the industry was not inherently evil, but merely insulated in a fatally flawed culture that emphasizes serving investors over helping sick people.
The Nevada Supreme Court has instructed Clark County District Court judges to start charging fees to defendants represented by the public defender’s office or otherwise represented by lawyers paid by taxpayers — on a sliding scale based on their ability to pay.
Sarah Palin has come out with her new book and it is causing quite a stir. Regardless of what you may think about the former Alaska governor, she has tapped into the grassroots of America and proved that she has a sense of the pulse and values of Joe Sixpack and Sally Doe.
When does a prolonged, demonstrated indifference to state law and the state constitution among elected politicians and appointed bureaucrats become a malevolent conspiracy against the public?
