February, 1999 issue
Police union ‘tricks’ LVMPD into more millions for higher salaries, pensions
As if Clark County residents needed a reminder, the unrivaled political power of local government unions is again on full display. This time, the involved union is the Las Vegas...
CCSD’s systemic problem and its expensive consequences, Part 8
In October 2013, the executive director of the administrator union for the Clark County School District was highly agitated. The reason? A school trustee was offering draft policy guidelines for...
CCSD’s sexual-misconduct epidemic shows need for bargaining transparency
A recent epidemic of sexual-misconduct revelations has the Clark County School District scrambling to draft new policies. The new rules are intended to better govern communications between district employees and...
IVGID’s efforts to concealpublic records gets bizarre
Has Incline Village’s often-criticized local government — the Incline Village General Improvement District, or “IVGID” — finally gone off the deep end? According to district staff, members of the public...
IVGID officials caught in false testimony
Functionaries of Incline Village’s local government repeatedly insisted last week that their sudden scheme to destroy all emails to and from top executives after 30 days had the State of...
What is IVGID so intent on hiding?
It’s not just public-record emails that Incline Village General Improvement District management is fighting to keep from the public. Top IVGID administrators have also been stonewalling efforts by two trustees...
“Atrápame Si Puedes” Parte 2
¿La indiferencia deliberada al abuso físico de sus estudiantes autistas es parte del modo de operar del Distrito Escolar del Condado de Clark? Usted bien puede pensar que es una...
Isaiah and His Mothers
When Isaiah and his folks moved to Las Vegas in 2015, a big reason was that the Nevada Legislature had just passed Education Savings Accounts into law. Isaiah’s two mothers...
Chappelle, Ty’jahnae and Taliyah
Chappelle, a single mother with three school-age children, decided this past school year to move her two daughters to a private school. Her son, oldest of the three at 17,...