CCSD Police Break The Law, Issue Tickets Away Far Schools »
(Karen Gray/NPRI) – A Legislative Counsel Bureau opinion, requested by Assemblyman Richard “Tick” Segerblom, D-Las Vegas, and obtained exclusively by Nevada Journal, has determined that the Clark County School District Police are overstepping their legal authority by enforcing traffic laws in areas beyond school property. Subsection 2 of NRS 391.275 gives school police officers authority on streets adjacent to school grounds, but CCSD-PD officers regularly participate in “Operation Joining Forces,” a partnership with other Clark [...]
Stark Ethics Opinion Published Result Of Attorney Hired To Reduce Backlog »
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – A long awaited opinion regarding the conduct of former Lyon County manager Dennis Stark has been published by the state Ethics Commission. Stark appeared before the commission on an ethics matter in November 2010 and January 2011, and had been waiting for a published opinion in his case. Stark was found at the hearing to have committed one willful ethics violation. In a Nevada News Bureau story highlighting his case in [...]
Clark County Residents Pay Millions To Fund Union Activities »
(Sean Whaley/NPRI) – A Nevada think tank investigation shows that Clark County taxpayers are contributing $4.6 million a year to fund union activities by local government workers. The results of the investigation by Steven Miller and Kyle Gillis of the Nevada Policy Research Institute, published today in the Nevada Journal, identifies almost 70,000 hours of paid leave time made available each year by local governments to public employees to conduct union business. Although top union [...]
Primaries Not the Solution for Caucus Chaos, Bring Back Smoke-Filled Backrooms »
(Thomas Mitchell/4THST8) — The Republican presidential caucus on Saturday wasn’t exactly a well-oiled machine. There were long delays, breakdowns in communication, misfires and miscues. In fact, 20 minutes into it I sent out a tweet or twit or whatever saying: “GOP organization — an oxymoron.” As sure as worms after a rainstorm and just as there was in 2008 a bunch of people are wringing their hands and bemoaning the unseemliness and the rough-hewn nature [...]
NPRI Claims Sandoval’s Economic-Development Scheme Is ‘Roadmap for Crony Capitalism’ »
(Las Vegas) – Responding to the release of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s so-called “economic development plan,” Geoffrey Lawrence, deputy policy director at the Nevada Policy Research Institute, released the following comments: The Governor’s Office of Economic Development has issued a three-year plan that would cartelize and collectivize the Silver State economy. It is a plan to substitute the government for private businesses and politically connected bureaucrats for entrepreneurs. It is a roadmap for crony capitalism and [...]
Army of Corrupt Obama Backers Simply Marching Under a New Flag »
(Thomas Mitchell/4THST8 Mitt Romney apparently is making hay in a TV ad over the single ethics violation the Democrats could nail on Newt Gingrich — whether a college course he was teaching was advancing his partisan goals. It’s sort of like concentrating on the mote in one eye and ignoring the beam in another. There’s more than one way to advance one’s political goals. Newt’s penny-ante course is one. Obama’s million-dollar extortion to fund his [...]
Brower Asks Cortez Masto To Justify $6 Million For Construction Arbitration »
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – State Sen. Greg Brower, R-Reno, has asked Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto why an outside legal firm was retained to defend the state against a freeway construction dispute. Legal costs charged to the state will total $6 million by the end of an arbitration hearing set for next month. The Jan. 12 letter asked Masto why her office retained, or advised the Nevada Department of Transportation to retain, an outside [...]
No Funding Available For Review Of Nevada Public Education Funding Plan »
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – A panel of lawmakers today began a review of the state’s 45-year-old formula for funding public education with an eye towards addressing the needs of the state’s urban districts as they work to educate special education students, English-language learners and children in poverty. The panel is still searching for funding for a study to help in the review, however. The failure to find private funding for a study could jeopardize [...]
It’s Time To Wrest The West From Federal Control »
(Geoffrey Lawrence/NPRI) – As the GOP presidential contest moves on to the Western states, beginning with Nevada’s Feb. 4 caucuses, presidential candidates need to weigh in on what is perhaps the most pressing federal issue confronting the West: Who should control Western lands? In 1979, Nevada lawmakers fired a salvo re-opening the long-running struggle by Western states to reclaim from federal authorities control of the land within state boundaries — the movement popularly known as [...]
RISE Resource Center And Citizen Outreach Celebrate School Choice »
NN&V Exclusive (Lori Piotrowski) – It’s National School Choice Week, and RISE Resource Center and Citizen Outreach are celebrating. On January 26, head over to the new RISE Resource Center headquarters to learn about the choices you have for your children’s education, and meet other parents who share your desire to have an active voice in shaping education. Listen to a homeschooled Harvard graduate—Wayne Allyn Root! And Brian Calle, from the Friedman Foundation, will help [...]
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