December, 1998 issue
Washoe school board ignores state law, ‘fires’ district superintendant Martinez
Ex-Washoe County School District Superintendent Pedro Martinez — suddenly ousted this week by six members of the district school board — today sued the district for violating the Nevada Open...
‘You have every right to fight for your kids’
“I don’t want to go there, Daddy. They’re mean to us,” she said. It was 1966 in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Virginia — one of about 135 black kids selected...
CCSD explains why ‘Open Book’ website now less user friendly
LAS VEGAS — The Clark County School District says what appeared to be the loss of previously reported financial data on the district’s online “Open Book” web tool was really...
State’s $1.2 million gift to SolarCity provides ‘No net benefit to Nevadans’ — economist
CARSON CITY — An expert-witness report filed in a constitutional challenge to the State of Nevada’s “Catalyst Fund” says taxpayer-dollar subsidies like the $1.2 million the state is attempting to...
Autopsy: Michael Brown shot 6 to 8 times
FERGUSON, Mo. — A St. Louis County autopsy has found that the unarmed black teenager killed during a confrontation with a white police officer was shot six to eight times....
Black conservative legal scholar slams governor’s ‘demeaning the rule of law’
Washington, DC – Legal scholar Horace Cooper of the Project 21 black leadership network is condemning a statement by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon that appears to prejudge the investigation into the...
Once a prominent union member, now he’s a union target
For 30 years he represented the Clark County Fire Department as its public information officer. Now Robert Leinbach is being sued in federal court by the department’s union. The complaint...
Intelligence Gap: How a Chinese national gained access to Arizona’s terror center
Lizhong Fan’s desk was among a crowd of cubicles at the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center in Phoenix. For five months in 2007, the Chinese national and computer programmer opened...
Administrator on CCSD payroll working for another state government?
LAS VEGAS — Has one of the Clark County School District’s department honchos found a way to eat taxpayer cake in two separate states at the same time? It appears...