Editorials

Assemblyman Steven Brooks has been arrested again, which begs an important question: Is this man going to have to hurt someone before he’s expelled from the Legislature?

In July 2000, then-Review-Journal police reporter Glenn Puit wrote about a 60-year-old resident of South Tenaya Way being awakened by his barking dogs at 5:15 in the morning. The man retrieved a handgun and went downstairs to investigate. When he opened the door to his den he was confronted by an armed intruder. Both men immediately opened fire.

Some good news for taxpayers, parents and students: Last week an arbitrator sided with the Clark County School District over the local teachers union in their contract dispute, a decision that will allow the district to restore some teaching positions lost in last year’s arbitration debacle.

Oh, for the days of 2004. When jobs were abundant. When voters had enough confidence in the security of their income to support tax increases for targeted purposes.

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is challenging the U.S. Postal Service’s move to halt Saturday delivery of first-class mail, effective in August, saying that’s a decision reserved for Congress.

Two years ago, President Barack Obama, perhaps sensing from GOP gains in the 2010 elections that voters hadn’t been overwhelmed by his economic accomplishments, announced with considerable fanfare the creation of a jobs council comprising leaders of such prestigious businesses as General Electric, American Express and Boeing. The members were supposed to advise Mr. Obama — who has almost no private-sector work experience — how to boost job creation.

The 2013 session of the Nevada Legislature got down to business Tuesday, after a day of ceremonial speeches and formalities. The first action of the Senate Judiciary Committee? Ignoring Nevada voters, who in 2010 refused to create an intermediate state appellate court, 53 percent to 47 percent.