April, 1998 issue
Mom-and-pop business worries about indirect impacts of margin tax
LAS VEGAS — Randy and Kathalynn Thwing may have to pick up their lives and move out of the state they’ve called home since the ‘80s if voters approve the...
CCSD police dispatcher transferred from post as new details emerge in Angela Peterson death case
LAS VEGAS — A Clark County School District police dispatcher who’s been named a defendant in the Angela Peterson wrongful death lawsuit was transferred out of her police department post...
Harry Reid’s gifts to ‘greedy’ insurance companies were hidden behind populist, anti-insurer rants
LAS VEGAS — As Harry Reid in 2009 was assembling the liberal wish-list that would eventually be passed into law as Obamacare, he rarely missed any opportunity on the floor...
Medicaid patients to be the surprise victims of margin tax
LAS VEGAS — If the margin tax passes, it will claim a group of unlikely victims: Medicaid patients. That’s according to the owner of a large, Southern Nevada nursing home...
Charter-school parents fear the creeping CCSD mindset
LAS VEGAS — Two years ago, parents packed a convention center ballroom to rally around the prospect that a new charter school would bring school choice to downtown Henderson. Two...
CCSD spent over $13,000 discussing controversial sex-ed program
LAS VEGAS — The Clark County School District spent over $13,000 this year to discuss the child sex-education advocacy program that made headlines when it was reported that the district...
Former NSEA staffer accuses union of racial discrimination
LAS VEGAS — The Nevada State Education Association may be in hot water over what one former employee is calling racial discrimination and a breach of contract. Jaime Reborn, a...
Double-dipping ex-purchasing director reportedly repays school district
Update: On the afternoon of Tuesday, Nov. 25, Nevada Journal received a response to its Sunday, Nov. 23 inquiry from CCSD Press Secretary Melinda Malone. See inset paragraph below. A...
Federal education officials: Nevada can’t charge dad to look at children’s records
LAS VEGAS — Remember the Nevada dad who was told it would cost him over $10,000 to see the records the State of Nevada has on his children, a story...