Reporter’s Notebook

DESPERATE TO GENERATE MORE REVENUE, the Clark County School District is exploring the possibility of selling advertising space on and in its school buses.

In honor of this moneymaking scheme, Reporter's Notebook offers the following list of ad slogans local school children are unlikely to read:

•Don't know much about biology? Get hands-on know-how at the Chicken Ranch!

•Ritalin: Because your desk shouldn't be vibrating like that.

•A reminder from the National Home-Schooling Association: If you studied at home, you would be home by now.

•Las Vegas Speedway: Where your parents can drive as fast legally as they do in school zones.

•Forts-R-Us: Specializing in dollhouse foreclosures and bank-owned treehouses.

•Speed 3: If your school fails to make adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act, this bus will explode!

•Karl's Kollege of Refrigerator Repair: Because you ain't all headed for Harvard.

HONESTY OFTEN IS IN SHORT SUPPLY at the Regional Justice Center. But Ronald Nelson Brady Jr. is as candid as they come. On Tuesday, Brady was sentenced to 8 to 25 years in prison for trying to hire a hit man to take out witnesses in the murder case against former champion bodybuilders Craig Titus and Kelly Ryan.

During the hearing, county prosecutor Josh Tomsheck told the judge that authorities found drugs in Brady's cell. Brady denied the accusation.

"If I had known there were drugs in my cell, I'd have used them," he said.

DAVID KIHARA

AT A HIGHER EDUCATION BOARD OF REGENTS meeting Thursday to discuss budget cuts of 14 percent requested by Gov. Jim Gibbons, several college students spoke in protest of the cuts.

Student senator Kelli Justus of the College of Southern Nevada surmised that a 14 percent budget cut would mean a 14 percent cut in courses offered.

"Cut 14.2 percent of my prereqs," she said. "That sounds good to me."

RICHARD LAKE

ALSO AT THURSDAY'S MEETING, SEVERAL REGENTS took issue with a Review-Journal editorial that criticized the board for refusing to enact budget cuts that the paper's editorial board sees as necessary. The editorial said the regents are living in "fantasyland."

"Unfortunately," said Regent Howard Rosenberg, "I think it's the Review-Journal that lives in fantasyland."

RICHARD LAKE

OVERHEARD ON THE SCANNER: "We have a 9-year-old stuck in a swing. Please advise."