A handful of administrators earned $100,000 at College of Southern Nevada in 2022, but the average pay was less than half that.
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Before leaving CCSD this year, then-Superintendent Jesus Jara gave members of his executive cabinet significant raises, including a pay hike of 40 percent to the chief of police.
The pay ratio of the top boss to the typical employee shot past 100-to-1 at several companies with sizable holdings in Southern Nevada, including casino operators.
University Medical Center defends the $115,200-a-year contract of an influential doctor, but the public hospital can’t document cases he has reviewed.
Financial markets were rattled last year when some big banks shut down. But about 15 years ago, lenders across Nevada and the U.S. closed at a rapid clip.
For this story, board President Evelyn Garcia Morales once again did not respond to requests for an interview. The district’s communications office again did not grant an interview.
Eli Segall’s top investigative stories included real estate scams and a tribal nation’s big-money land deals on the Strip that didn’t sit well with everyone back home.
Investigative reporter Briana Erickson’s top five stories of the year included mistakes at the Henderson jail, an officer accused of racism and a county office discriminating against a former police officer.
Investigative reporter Mary Hynes broke stories about a potentially fatal fungal infection and a holiday trip to the beach by school district personnel in 2023.
Thuan Luu added the Review-Journal to an ongoing defamation case he filed against a therapist and his estranged wife.
Henderson has agreed to pay the Review-Journal $20,000 in legal fees after a judge sided with the newspaper in a dispute over video from the city jail.
Some of Detective Kevin LaPeer’s fellow officers accused him of hurling a racial slur and urging the killing of Mexicans and Black Lives Matter protesters.
Teacher shortages prompt the district to spend $159,000 on recruitment trips, but it doesn’t track how many teachers are hired as a result of the travel.
Government employees’ salaries are routinely requested public records, but the Lyon County School District denied access to that information earlier this year.
Frail patients are discharged to unregulated facilities or sent home in the middle of the night in ride-hailing vehicles without a guardian or caregiver first being notified, records show.