Jane Ann Morrison

Michael McGhee worked for a month on an idea about how to save money for Nevada. The lifelong Nevadan showed up at 9 a.m. for a legislative meeting Thursday and waited patiently until public comment began at 4 p.m.

Supporters of the fledgling Nevada State College are running scared, trying to deflect rumors the college might be closed to help balance the higher education budget. The state’s only four-year college is feeling like an unwanted stepchild hoping for a fairy godmother.

A nurse with the guts to blow the whistle on a well-connected doctor was acquitted Thursday on an absurd charge that never should have been filed. Jurors took about an hour to toss this silly case.

Louie Overstreet and Jamie Costello resigned as board members of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District in 2008, uneasy about some of the board’s spending decisions — decisions advocated by the district’s top administrator, Daniel Walters. Turns out, they had good cause to worry. The recession had started in December 2007.

Fred Schultz’s pitch is simple. If you have a medically fragile child who needs home health care or medical day care, or you need a break, Positively Kids has vacancies. Most of the care would be provided free by the little-known Las Vegas nonprofit.

Charges were quietly dropped against Las Vegas attorney Jill Hanlon, who had been accused of victimizing an elderly man when she was his attorney in 2005 and 2006. The charges were dismissed in August in open court at the request of Senior Deputy Attorney General David Rickert.