Victor Joecks’ column appears in the Opinion section each Sunday, Wednesday and Friday.
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The Clark County School District loves to keep secrets. But even a government agency notorious for breaking Nevada’s Public Records Act can’t hide from a lawsuit. That could be what it takes for the public to find out how much the district did to help the husband of board president Deanna Wright.
Nevada should increase funding for Career and Technical Education, but shouldn’t automatically register voters at the DMV. Assembly Republicans will also oppose tax increases next legislative session. That’s according to Assemblyman Jim Marchant.
There are lots of silly attacks in politics, but liberals acting aghast over Republicans criticizing California is especially laughable.
Just 70 days into his tenure as superintendent, Jesus Jara stands ready to abdicate financial control of the school district to the teachers union.
Democrats running for state office don’t like to talk about it, but they want to raise your taxes. That includes hiking property taxes. Start with Democrat gubernatorial candidate Steve Sisolak.
Rossi Ralenkotter and Deanna Wright aren’t just ripping you off. They’re arrogant enough to act outraged that the public is upset about their misuse of taxpayer money.
Nevada’s education establishment has a new plan to fix schools: Repeat the old plan. Nevada politicians first implemented the buzzwords you hear now — more funding, smaller class sizes, increased teacher pay — decades ago.
Rossi Ralenkotter is seeking a diamond parachute for the platinum parachute of his golden parachute. There’s a good chance that’s exactly what the board of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority gives its embattled CEO next Tuesday.
The most important election this week didn’t involve a candidate, and it didn’t go Republicans’ way.
The transgender regulations proposed by the Clark County School District violate the privacy rights of students. That’s according to Karen England, executive director of Nevada Family Alliance.
Nevada’s broken collective bargaining system has reduced Superintendent Jesus Jara to begging union bosses not to inflict more financial pain on the district. Predictably, it’s not going well.
Last Thursday, Andrew Cuomo, the Democrat governor of New York, cited the Pope in his call to repeal the death penalty. The media didn’t bat an eye.
The Clark County School District sent Deanna Wright to anti-bullying conference in Orlando. She went to Disney World instead.
Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority CEO Rossi Ralenkotter shouldn’t get a “golden parachute.” Tax increases aren’t necessary, but if politicians want an increase they should send it to voters. Read by Three needs a chance to work, even if it holds back thousands of third graders. That’s according to Senate district 20 candidate and Assemblyman Keith Pickard.
Democrat attorney general and Sen. Aaron Ford’s future would look a lot brighter if he had been more honest in the past. Last Friday, Ford sat down with Channel 8’s Steve Sebelius to reveal that he had been arrested numerous times in the 1990s. The arrests included stealing, public intoxication and failing to appear in court.
