Today on Thanksgiving and tomorrow on Black Friday, union organizers, activist groups and even a couple of Wal-Mart employees are expected to picket the nation’s largest retailer, in Las Vegas and across the country. The unions and activists behind the pickets claim it will be the single largest demonstration against the big box retailers in history, and will signify a new era of workers standing up against the evil empire that is corporate America.
Everyone’s busy this time of year. The shopping, the partying, the traveling. The calendar makers certainly did us no favors this year by putting only 26 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
With so many charitable efforts under way to help Southern Nevada’s neediest residents, there isn’t enough space in this newspaper to properly recognize them all.
Disgraced Family Court Judge Steven Jones has some serious chutzpah. He has tried every legal maneuver imaginable to delay his hearing next week before the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline, which is looking into his romantic relationship with a prosecutor who appeared before him.
It’s the season for giving thanks — and for simply giving.
Some 21,000 Strip workers have reason to be thankful this week: The Culinary Local 226 and the Bartenders Local 165 reached agreement on a five-year contract covering 10 properties operated by MGM Resorts International.
Public records law only goes so far in making governments transparent to the taxpaying public.
