Poor Pat Hickey: He’s on the chopping block for telling the truth.
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Australians endearingly describe their remote continent as “Down Under.” Unfortunately, the expression also applies to their economy. Voters there hope this month’s election will lift the country’s fortunes, now that conservatives have ended six years of liberal Labor party rule. The vote holds lessons for Americans.
The assault on the public’s pocketbooks is unrelenting. Government at every level wants higher taxes, and the costs of other necessities, from energy to health care to food, keep rising as well. Taxpayers are tired of being asked to cough up more, more, more.
Love or hate her, Pat Mulroy will be missed.
Labor peace won’t come cheap for the Clark County School District. On Thursday, the School Board will vote on a one-year contract for teachers that provides a variety of pay raises at a net cost to the public of $27.4 million for the 2013-14 school year.
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.
Guns are back in the headlines, with mass shootings at the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya, the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., and in Chicago. President Barack Obama is calling for another effort to pass some reasonable gun control legislation.