I have been following the stories about the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority for several months. There is corruption at the highest level, from the administration to the board. It’s all at taxpayer expense. Criminal charges should be filed against former CEO Rossi Ralenkotter and associates and the board replaced. The “swamp” is deep and extends across this entire country.
So now we have school principals begging for money (“Begging for a budget boost,” Tuesday Review-Journal), while headlines rave about the piles of marijuana taxes raised in excess of predictions. We were sold the legalization story based on how much it would help the schools.
I have to admit that, despite my initial skepticism, there have been a lot of good changes made to the paper since the change in ownership. While the clear conservative bias is still there, the investigative work has generally been very good.
The mythical gender wage gap was debunked so many times in the past 20 years that only the uninformed would believe one still exists. But the Sep. 15 Review-Journal (“Wage wedge”) rehashed the issue.
