Speaking of affordability …
Editorials
An immediate need for strategies that reduce tensions, mitigate potential violence.
The Epstein files strike again.
The best solution for the West’s water woes is more water. Perhaps California regulators are finally realizing this.
It doesn’t take artificial intelligence to deduce why so many power plants have shut down recently.
One heckuva story is sitting inside the piles of data held by the Nevada Public Employees Retirement System. We know this because the agency that oversees the state’s pension fund is determined to hide that data from the public — so much so that it has defied a Nevada Supreme Court order to release information on the taxpayer funded benefits provided to government retirees.
A couple of weeks ago, North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee said his financially strapped municipality wouldn’t surrender to state control, despite having just $9 million in reserves and a total annual budget of $481.5 million. “We don’t have to find dollars,” the new mayor told the Review-Journal’s Laura Myers and James DeHaven. “We just have to find a lot of dimes.”
The Clark County School District made one ethics complaint go away, but that whitewash has spawned four similar complaints, including two lodged last week, alleging School Board members used taxpayer resources to campaign for a property tax increase in 2012.
In the late afternoon of Jan. 10, Heather Price Papayoti of Phoenix became the seventh person to commit suicide at the Hoover Dam bypass bridge, falling 900 feet to the Colorado River below.
Las Vegas is a big-league town without a big-league team. But the city is so confident that sports would jump-start Symphony Park’s development that it’s willing to spend public money on an arena to lure at least one franchise downtown.
Southern Nevada’s local government leaders never tire of pitching grand visions for their cities, of calling for 21st-century communities, of embracing change and not looking back. Yet when it comes to marijuana policy, they’ve embraced the counterproductive scare tactics of the 1950s.
If we are wise, the passing of time provides perspective. Those things that seem abhorrent and impossible today may take on wholly different color through the lens of time.
Politics hurt Southern Nevada’s fragile economic recovery in the fall, thanks to the brief shutdown of Red Rock Canyon and Lake Mead and the cancellation of Nellis Air Force Base’s big Veterans Day weekend air show. This year, all could be normal in autumn. The Review-Journal’s Keith Rogers reported the good news Jan. 11 that the Thunderbirds are expected to perform at their home base Nov. 8 and 9, and that with a little more good fortune, the elite air squad will be part of a full Aviation Nation weekend at Nellis.
The mob’s influence lives on downtown. Unfortunately, the evidence of that influence isn’t limited to the Mob Museum. It plays out frequently in City Hall, where folks who just want to make an honest living must plead for permission.
The latest sales tax increase proposal before the Clark County Commission will be debated as a badly needed funding increase for local police departments. If only it were that simple.