January, 1998 issue
LVMPD going rogue on violent-crime statistics?
Is Las Vegas Metro doctoring its public reports to downplay a significant amount of violent crime? Since 2011, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has been reporting robberies as “crimes...
CCSD’s systemic problem and its expensive consequences, Part 1
Have you ever wondered why, year in and year out, the Clark County School District always seems to be short of money? One answer frequently advanced, explicitly or implicitly, is...
CCSD’s systemic problem and its expensive consequences, Part 2
Why should it turn out that large school districts like CCSD are especially prone to fraud, waste and corruption? Lydia Segal makes a very strong case that a primary root...
CCSD’s systemic problem and its expensive consequences, Part 3
“The 17-year saga of CCSD’s highly expensive ERP adventure — where the estimated cost … ballooned from $15 million in 2001 to well over 10 times that amount today,” is...
CCSD’s systemic problem and its expensive consequences, Part 4
“Change is hard for any organization, but especially so for employees in the government and public sector,” observes the 12-year-old independent Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) advisory firm, Panorama Consulting. “Long...
Is civil forfeiture a boon for law enforcement?
Senate Bill 358, currently under debate in the Nevada legislature, proposes to reform the law-enforcement practice of civil asset forfeiture. Civil asset forfeiture is controversial, in part, because of concerns...
CCSD’s systemic problem and its expensive consequences, Part 5
During the first six months of 2008, Ken Forrest, an independent consultant and the principal of the LDRShipSolutions firm, was employed as a top-level Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project advisor...
CCSD’s systemic problem and its expensive consequences, Part 6
It was 2009 when CCSD’s purchasing director let employees and consultants know she was intent on keeping district trustees in the financial dark. As reported earlier in this series, Bramby...
CCSD’s systemic problem and its expensive consequences, Part 7
In late September 2013, CCSD Trustee Erin Cranor came across information indicating that she and fellow trustees had been misled regarding the actual costs of an insurance contract the district...