The pursuit of justice in the death of 7-year-old Roderick “RJ” Arrington goes far beyond the prosecution of his stepfather, Markiece Palmer, and mother, Dina Palmer, on charges of first-degree murder and child abuse. It’s important for county taxpayers to know there’s some accountability within the child welfare system that failed RJ, and that it won’t fail other children with tragic consequences.
If an elected official is stupid enough to say there’s a circumstance under which he would vote for human slavery, he’s unfit for public service.
The Las Vegas Valley’s list of badly needed road improvement projects is longer than rush-hour backups at the Spaghetti Bowl. Especially now that the Clark County Commission has approved a fuel tax increase to fund some of those projects, the Regional Transportation Commission must put scarce road revenues to their most productive, efficient use possible.
Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie was furious earlier this month when Clark County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak accused the valley’s top cop of working with the officers’ union and an arbitrator to rig the bargaining process and secure police pay raises. Mr. Gillespie was equally angry that Mr. Sisolak did not first call him to share his concerns about the arbitration hearings.
The city of Las Vegas wants to know what residents think of the municipal government. It’s asking taxpayers to complete its Las Vegas Community Survey, by mail or online, to help establish budgeting and service priorities and determine perceptions of the city.
For the first time in a long time, cities around the region are looking upon North Las Vegas with some envy.
That UNLV students were selected to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon against teams from elite private institutions such as Stanford University, the University of Southern California and the California Institute of Technology was an accomplishment by itself.
The disastrous launch of healthcare.gov, the federal health insurance exchange, prompted ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl to ask what passes for a tough question at a White House news conference: “Given all the problems that we’ve seen with people trying to enroll in this program, is the White House going to be delaying the (individual) mandate? If the website’s not fixed, will people still have to pay the fine?”
Nevada’s public records law requires the release of information for very good reason: If government employees are given the slightest bit of discretion in determining what taxpayers are allowed to see, they’ll be too happy to deny access to that information.
Remember all the talk in Washington about the importance of a “clean” bill to fund the federal government and raise the debt ceiling? There’s no such thing. Lawmakers love using last-minute legislation to leverage pork and new spending money.
