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Taxpayers will be on the hook for casino-bosses people mover The Las Vegas Monorail — despite years of protestations to the contrary — is still seeking a shotgun marriage with Nevada taxpayers, hearings in U.S. bankruptcy court confirmed this week. Moreover, the odds of monorail insiders accomplishing their long-held goal of making…

LAS VEGAS — The federal judge in charge of the Las Vegas Monorail Company bankruptcy case is ordering, for the second time, the debt-ridden firm to come up with solid evidence that it will ever be financially viable. Unless it does, suggested U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Bruce Markell last week, the company will…

LAS VEGAS — While heavy auto traffic around Clark County elementary schools is creating chaos and endangering children, school district police spend time on Nevada desert highways, running traffic stings on motorists. Multiple stories and letters to the editor in the Las Vegas Review-Journal and Sun last weekreported serious issues with traffic around schools. Yet, as…

CARSON CITY — The constitutionality of Nevada’s Foreclosure Mediation Program is once again being challenged in court — with lawyers this time arguing that the program violates not only the state’s basic charter, but also the U.S. Constitution. Wells Fargo is appealing to the Nevada Supreme Court an order from the state’s Second District Court rewriting…

Is the Clark County School District Police Department usurping police powers it is not granted under the law? Nevada Revised Statutes specifically designate school police as Category II peace officers, who have only temporary and restricted authority in Class A felony crimes. Their jurisdiction is limited to school district property, district events when…

LAS VEGAS — Several members of the public apologized to the special masters at Monday’s redistricting hearing, over the need for the masters to take up what was, constitutionally, the Legislature’s chore. In the end, however, the Legislature may need to apologize to the public. That’s because regardless of how the final…

President Obama claims his recently proposed American Jobs Act could provide $1.3 billion to Nevada and create nearly 10,000 jobs.   But what the historical data strongly suggests, says a Duquesne University economics professor, is that the money will do no such thing.  “The government does not create jobs. It moves jobs,” says Dr. Antony Davies, who…

LAS VEGAS  — California Gov. Jerry Brown referred to anti-tax hike advocates as having a notion “that taxes are like a sexually transmitted disease” during a panel discussion featuring Western state governors at the National Clean Energy Summit. Brown, who was joined by Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval and Washington Gov.…

LAS VEGAS — Vice President Joe Biden cited John F. Kennedy’s famous “moon” speech as a reason to invest in renewable energy during his keynote address at the National Clean Energy Summit. “Clean energy is today’s space race,” Biden said during his speech. “The march into the future will continue whether or…

LAS VEGAS — New York Times environmental journalist Jim Motavalli said electric–vehicle marketability depends on “the education of the American people” during a Future of Energy panel presentation at the National Clean Energy Summit. According to Motavalli, the Obama administration has invested $215 million in electric–vehicle development and has set…

LAS VEGAS — Secretary of Energy Steven Chu used a baseball analogy describing renewable energy investments in Nevada, saying the government has been “investing in singles” instead of “investing in homeruns.” “We [the federal government] want to swing from the heels, and when you swing from the heels, you expect…

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called politicians who want to end federal subsidies for renewable energy “short-sighted” and said they want to “stop [an] energy revolution” during his morning press conference at the National Clean Energy Summit. “We need to wean ourselves off our dependence of oil and we’d hope…

LAS VEGAS — Is your son or daughter attending one of the 71 failing Title I schools in the Clark County School District? If so — and if you want him or her to go to a better school next year — you should consider taking advantage of a provision…

Is the statewide home-foreclosure modification program run by the Nevada Supreme Court actually unconstitutional? Nevada Second District Judge Patrick Flanagan wants to know. And since it’s a real question that could seriously impact the State of Nevada in multiple, powerful ways, he’s joined the state, represented by the Nevada attorney…

NORTH LAS VEGAS — If you’ve wondered why the North Las Vegas firefighter union feels free to take such an aggressive stance toward North Las Vegas taxpayers, it might have something to do with the fact that very few of the union members are city taxpayers themselves.   According to department…

Did Nevada’s most powerful legislators, sitting as the Interim Finance Committee last year, illegally plunder millions from a college savings program serving almost 10,000 Nevada families?   Chaired by Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, the IFC on July 21, 2010, took $4.2 million out of the Nevada College Savings Plans’…