As bad as the downtown soccer stadium deal is — and, oh, is it plenty bad — the way in which the city government and the Las Vegas City Council got it done is even worse.
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We hear it every election cycle: Fat-cat Republican donors buy elections and are singlehandedly destroying the political process. But these same critics are always noticeably silent when the numbers come out showing which donors shelled out the most cash and where their donations really went.
Despite efforts to recruit licensed educators for the 2014-15 school year, the Clark County School District began the year with nearly 700 teaching vacancies. About a month ago, this number remained at more than 600, and the vast majority of classroom vacancies are in schools in low-income communities and those that serve families whose primary language is not English.
We live in amazing times. We have access to an unprecedented amount of technology, which gives us equally unprecedented access to information. We can find out virtually anything we want or need to know, anytime, virtually anywhere we go, and we can share our findings — and our thoughts and opinions about those findings — with countless people, many of whom are doing the same exact thing.
The rising cost of higher education is a crisis, but in more ways than you might think. Yes, ever-higher tuition bills price many students out of a university education. But increasing college costs also compel students to take out ever-higher amounts of taxpayer-backed student loans. And, as Jason Delisle pointed out in a Wednesday Wall Street Journal op-ed, an ever-higher number of those loans will never be fully repaid.
The Nevada Supreme Court’s absurdly large caseload usually delays rulings at least a year, sometimes more. But justices haven’t used the court’s backlog as an excuse for unresponsiveness. When an unusually urgent appeal is filed, the court will move it to the front of line to resolve the matter as quickly as possible.