Victor Joecks’ column appears in the Opinion section each Sunday, Wednesday and Friday.
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The Clark County School District is interviewing six superintendent candidates on Friday, and Trustees say they’ll offer the job to someone next Wednesday. Regardless of whom they select, here are three things you already know about the district’s next superintendent.
Republican Attorney General candidate Craig Mueller says his primary opponent has been “inert” in the face of increasing crime. Mueller also pledged to take on the federal government if it came after Nevada’s recreational marijuana industry and fight to get federally owned lands returned to the state.
Most politicians would do anything they could to avoid disparaging veterans. Rep. and U.S. Senate candidate Jacky Rosen isn’t most politicians, and Sen. Dean Heller wants to make sure you know about it.
Last legislative session was the most anti-business session in Nevada’s history. In response, the Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce decided to endorse some of the Democrats who voted consistently against its members.
The Clark County Registrar’s office can’t keep its numbers straight. It’s already admitted to improperly excluding 175 signers of a petition to recall Sen. Joyce Woodhouse. Now, there’s evidence suggesting it’s made hundreds of more mistakes in that recall and the one targeting Sen. Nicole Cannizzaro.
Americans for Prosperity, the nation’s largest grassroots conservative group, has yet to decide if it’ll support Sen. Dean Heller but will back attorney general Adam Laxalt’s bid for governor.
If you want to empower women, stop talking about the mythical gender pay gap. Equal Pay Day was last week. Democrat politicians and their media allies spent the day spreading the falsehood that women earn 80 cents for every dollar men earn.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Giunchigliani’s new gun control proposal would do more to punish responsible gun owners than reduce gun crime. Read through her platform, and you get the impression that’s practically the point.
Believing that the Clark County School District’s next superintendent can solve its problems is like thinking you can turn Hamlet into a comedy by finding the right lead actor. The next superintendent will have the starring role in an oft-repeated tragedy but no chance to change the plot.
Stormy Daniels is a “distraction,” not an impeachable offense. Social media companies shouldn’t arbitrarily discriminate against conservatives, and Republicans who voted for the omnibus spending package should be ashamed of themselves. That’s according to Congressional District 3 candidate and former TV reporter Michelle Mortensen.
The people most responsible for the much-hyped gender pay gap are women. Tuesday was Equal Pay Day, a chance for liberals to claim that women in America make only 80 cents for every dollar a male makes or 81 cents in Nevada.
It’s easy to vote illegally in Nevada. All a non-citizen has to do is go the DMV and ask. The DMV uses the same form whether you’re getting a driver’s license, ID card or driver’s authorization card. DACs are for those, like illegal aliens, who can’t meet the proof of identity requirements for the other cards. At the bottom is a voter registration form.
The months of budget problems the Clark County School District faced last year will soon look like the good ol’ days. Thank collective bargaining for that.
UNLV president Len Jessup quit and wasn’t forced out by the Board of Regents, according to Nevada System of Higher Education Chancellor Thom Reilly.
Steve Sisolak couldn’t scare off Chris Giunchigliani, and now she has Sisolak running scared. They’re both seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. You can see this in his shifting policy positions and recent TV ads — a six-figure buy almost three months before the primary.
