Posts Tagged ‘Nevada Journal’

LAS VEGAS — Secretary of Energy Steven Chu used a baseball analogy describing renewable energy investments in Nevada, saying the government has been “investing in singles” instead of “investing in homeruns.” “We [the federal government] want to swing from the heels, and when you swing from the heels, you expect a few strikeouts,” Chu said…

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called politicians who want to end federal subsidies for renewable energy “short-sighted” and said they want to “stop [an] energy revolution” during his morning press conference at the National Clean Energy Summit. “We need to wean ourselves off our dependence of oil and we’d hope our Republican friends would join…

LAS VEGAS — Is your son or daughter attending one of the 71 failing Title I schools in the Clark County School District? If so — and if you want him or her to go to a better school next year — you should consider taking advantage of a provision in the federal No Child…

Is the statewide home-foreclosure modification program run by the Nevada Supreme Court actually unconstitutional? Nevada Second District Judge Patrick Flanagan wants to know. And since it’s a real question that could seriously impact the State of Nevada in multiple, powerful ways, he’s joined the state, represented by the Nevada attorney general, and the program’s administrator…

NORTH LAS VEGAS — If you’ve wondered why the North Las Vegas firefighter union feels free to take such an aggressive stance toward North Las Vegas taxpayers, it might have something to do with the fact that very few of the union members are city taxpayers themselves.   According to department records obtained by Nevada Journal,…

Did Nevada’s most powerful legislators, sitting as the Interim Finance Committee last year, illegally plunder millions from a college savings program serving almost 10,000 Nevada families?   Chaired by Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, the IFC on July 21, 2010, took $4.2 million out of the Nevada College Savings Plans’ endowment fund and used it…

Assembly Speaker and North Las Vegas Assistant Fire Chief John Oceguera has repeatedly insisted publicly that he worked and was paid by the City of North Las Vegas for “only” nine hours a week during this year’s legislative session in Carson City when he was also being paid as a Nevada legislator. In an interview…

The federal government has spent over $440 million subsidizing Nevada’s “green economy,” yet imported nuclear energy provides more power to Nevada customers than taxpayer-subsidized electricity generators such as solar, wind and biofuel. According to recently updated data from NV Energy, since the stimulus passed in February 2009, imported nuclear energy generated over 328,000 megawatt hours…

For more than a decade, the Clark County school board has celebrated the board’s use of Policy Governance®, the board leadership paradigm created and taught by Dr. John Carver. Under the Policy Governance® paradigm, the board gives the superintendent broadly written policies describing the outcomes the board expects and describing actions to be avoided by…

The Clark County School District’s new superintendent, Dwight Jones, was hired to be a “game changer.” What district trustees increasingly signal from their dais, however, is — at best — ambivalence about actually allowing him to change the game. Jones quickly separated himself from the status quo in January, when he released his white paper, A…