Democrats now sound like free-market aficionados.
Editorials
Midterms are rarely kind to the president’s party, and with balloting just nine months off, the storm clouds look particularly threatening for Republicans.
Nevada and other states now have increased incentive to root out food stamp fraud. That’s good news for taxpayers.
Thanks to Gov. Joe Lombardo and President Donald Trump, Nevada parents will soon have new educational options.
It’s much easier to romanticize Hamas when you ignore their brutality. That wasn’t an option for Yair Horn.
Pat Skorkowsky has been clear: He believes the Clark County School District needs more money to erase underachievement within the country’s fifth-largest public education system.
It’s hard to imagine a more cynical political exercise than Tuesday’s “Bridging the Budget Gap” presentation at Henderson’s Heritage Park Senior Facility.
The Strip is getting a new arena. The sparkly, state-of-the-art, super-sized kind. And without a single tax dollar.
Clark County rancher Cliven Bundy has put the Bunker in Bunkerville. As in Archie Bunker.
If the U.S. Bureau of Land Management were a business, its Nevada executives would be fired. They’ve managed to lose money on vast assets capable of generating massive amounts of wealth.
Add the Clark County School District to the list of systems found to have lying, cheating educators.
Friday’s announcement that University Medical Center had eliminated more than 100 positions, including some nursing jobs, wasn’t all that surprising. The region’s only public hospital has lost hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years, receiving public bailout after public bailout. Operating deficits are projected to continue well into the future, so the hospital had to cut payroll and shut down money-draining operations to ensure the system’s survival.
The city of North Las Vegas has so little cash on hand that it can’t afford much of anything. But the struggling municipality and its employee unions managed to come together this month to buy the one thing they needed most: time.
The Las Vegas Valley is beginning to rebound from the Great Recession. Home values have steadily climbed, unemployment has crept down slightly and the downtown revitalization continues. But the rebound could have been much bigger by now and even more promising later if not for one problem: space.
Longevity pay has been going the way of the dinosaur, here in Southern Nevada and nationwide. Over the past few years, Clark County and all but one of its unions rightly moved to phase out the incentive for future hires. But the Service Employees International Union Local 1107 is determined to ride the longevity pay mastodon, long after the rest of its union brethren have agreed to remove the stipulation for future hires.