LAS VEGAS — Four months ago, Nevada Journal, citing Nevada’s public-records law, asked to review any Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department reports dealing with its investigation into the actions of Clark County School District Police chief Filiberto (“Phil”) Arroyo.

The investigation, according to multiple reports, had been requested by CCSD Superintendent Dwight Jones. Then, just two weeks after Sheriff Doug Gillespie met with Jones in a late-December, closed-door meeting, Arroyo — then on paid administrative leave — resigned.

Allegations at the time said that school police supervisors had tried to perpetrate a cover-up of a November 2009 party involving CCSD PD employees where underage teens had been allowed to drink.

Later that same night, one of those teenagers, drunk, smashed his car into that of UNLV honor student Angela Peterson, and killed her.

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Enbridge's Silver State North solar plant opened on Monday, May 7. The plant only employs two full-time workers. Photo courtesy of Enbridge Energy.

LAS VEGAS — The company behind the recently opened Silver State North solar plant is eligible to receive up to $50 million in federal tax credits under the Obama administration’s “stimulus” legislation, even though the plant created only two full-time jobs.

According to a Department of Interior memo, Enbridge Energy Partners, a Canadian-based company with extensive energy holdings in the U.S. that purchased the Southern Nevada plant from Arizona-based First Solar, “can apply for payments of up to 30 percent of the eligible costs of the project — approximately $50 million.”

The payments are available through the 1603 Program, a special exemption in the Treasury Department created by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act to “reimburse eligible applicants for a portion of the cost of installing specified energy property used in a trade or business or for the production of income.”

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