Reporters’ Notebook

At a Clark County budget workshop, Commissioner Steve Sisolak expressed concern about University Medical Center spending less on "standardized implantables."

"I'm into saving money, but I don't want to get into buying the cheapest possible pacemakers," Sisolak said.

"Commissioner Sisolak, are you planning a procedure?" Commissioner Rory Reid asked .

SCOTT WYLAND

To listen to parents opposed to year-round school is to know summer school stinks.

Lauren Ballardini, a mother at Twitchell Elementary School in Henderson, feels strange that she has to get special permission to take her kids out of school so they can participate in a wedding.

"It's not unreasonable to have a June wedding," Ballardini told the School Board.

JAMES HAUG

More than 500 Lake Las Vegas residents turned out Thursday for a town hall meeting on the state of their bankrupt development.

One complaint that kept coming up involved the community's decorative waterfalls, which residents really seem to want turned back on right away.

But one homeowner said the development is missing far more basic amenities, such as a park, a post office, a dry cleaner and a grocery store.

"If we can take care of a waterfall that doesn't work on behalf of a bankrupt developer, I think we can lure a Trader Joe's in here," the man said.

HENRY BREAN

OVERHEARD ON THE SCANNER: "Now that's funny. He got in, got high, then called you."

Heath Morrison, the superintendent of Washoe County School District, offered his view for improving the state's high school graduation rate during a meeting of the Nevada Education Reform Blue Ribbon Task Force Friday.

"If I asked the CEO of a hospital, 'Well, how many patients do you want to save?' I better hear 100 percent or I'm going to a different hospital. Our vision should be 100 percent."

JAMES HAUG