Posts Tagged ‘Nevada Journal’

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 Clark County government take the…

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 never exit from bankruptcy court.…

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 documented by this video — taken by…

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 several terms of a defaulting…

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 held off property and roadways…

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 maps turn out, Nevada taxpayers…

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 is also a research fellow…

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. Christine Gregoire, called market fundamentalism…

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 not we participate.” Biden’s “space…

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 a goal of 1 million…