I can’t help but feel sorry for the citizens of North Las Vegas. But I feel no pity for the city’s two municipal judges, Catherine Ramsey and Sean Hoeffgen.
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The Nevada Board of Medical Examiners had a backlog of 525 complaints at the start of 2015. An additional 1,078 complaints were filed last year — about three per day. By the end of the year, 570 complaints were pending.
If you haven’t paid attention to Nevada’s presidential caucus process and want to know how it will work, this column is for you.
Following a nine-month hiatus, UNLV’s Barrick Lecture Series is back. The first address under UNLV President Len Jessup’s watch was delivered Tuesday by writer and CNN host Fareed Zakaria.
North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee faced a roller coaster year in 2015, but he gave no inkling of any downside in his 2016 State of the City speech last Thursday.
North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee faced a roller coaster year in 2015, but he gave no inkling of any downside in his 2016 State of the City speech last Thursday.
Legislators in 2015 made a major change in how judges, regents and other nonpartisan candidates in county and statewide races are elected. As a result, many of this year’s nonpartisan races will be decided by fewer voters.
Vincent Ginn was the last person to enter a Clark County judicial race Friday, and he attracted some attention because he had already done so. He switched races just before the 5 p.m. deadline to file for office.
Distracting, annoying, often trivial, repetitive and even inaccurate. I’m not referring to Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman’s 2016 State of the City speech. I’m referring to the tweets that flashed on a monitor during her remarks Jan. 7.
The backlog of attorney discipline proceedings in Nevada reached a point of ridiculousness around four years ago.
The Nevada Supreme Court hit the restart button for attorney Noel Gage, one of three men convicted after an investigation into doctors and lawyers in cahoots to drive up medical costs in personal injury cases.
If you are a regular reader of this column you already know that one of my ongoing concerns is that any money you give to nonprofits be used for the best purpose.
Based on how the late Marjorie Barrick’s wishes to keep the Barrick Lecture Series going strong after her death and how the lectures have been allowed to languish, I’m not sure I’d give the UNLV Foundation millions. Presuming I had millions.
“Nevada Week in Review” is not dead, but it has been on life support since July. That’s longer than expected when it was announced the Vegas PBS show was taking a “summer hiatus.”
When wealthy Las Vegas attorney Robert Eglet presented an education seminar to more than 200 attorneys and judges and put up a slide showing mug shots of Nevada Supreme Court Chief Justice James Hardesty and mobster Al Capone side by side, some laughed. Others didn’t.
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