It doesn’t take artificial intelligence to deduce why so many power plants have shut down recently.
Editorials
Trump signs off on bill.
Will a few minutes extra sleep make a difference?
Nevada has spent only three-quarters of its allocation.
United States can get what it needs without military force.
For an organization whose membership includes thousands of food service industry employees, Culinary Local 226 doesn’t seem to understand who butters its workers’ bread.
This is going to hurt, America. But you already knew that.
Exactly why a mountain in Southern Nevada came to be named after a Frenchman is a puzzler. Naming the top of that mountain after a late, great United States president shouldn’t be such a big deal.
The College of Southern Nevada’s financial aid problems are so deep, the school is incapable of fixing them on its own. Higher education officials need to start asking how, exactly, the mess got this bad in the first place.
Public school rankings came out last week, and on the surface, the report doesn’t appear to contain much good news. As reported Tuesday by the Review-Journal’s Trevon Milliard, 25 percent of Nevada’s 604 public schools were downgraded by the Nevada School Performance Framework, the second-year, state-created evaluation that replaces federal No Child Left Behind standards.
When the valley’s economy was hotter than asphalt in July, nothing captured the exuberance and insanity of the growth quite like a Bureau of Land Management auction. Thousands of vacant acres were sold to developers and individuals, often above appraised value. Homes, offices and strip malls couldn’t be built fast enough.
No city does big boxing matches better than Las Vegas (see editorial above). And no state handles the judging of those matches worse than Nevada.
Last weekend was vintage Vegas: the boxing match of the year, huge visitation for Mexican Independence Day, and a big handle for one of the city’s most important and unique entertainment offerings: its sports books.
President Barack Obama’s 2009 guarantee was emphatic. “We will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period.”
Good news: One of the worst local court decisions in recent memory is headed to the Nevada Supreme Court on appeal. The bad news: It could be years before the high court rules on a case that sets a terrible precedent for public records law.