Victor Joecks talks about how an armed school officer stopped further violence.
President Donald Trump’s twitter feed often produces chaos. With just one tweet on Friday, however, he reordered Nevada politics and increased Republican chances in two races key races.
Last year, over 1,750 state and local employees took home over $200,000 in total compensation. Expect that number to grow to around 2,500 once Clark County and the Nevada System of Higher Education submit their data.
Victor Joecks talks about Ruben Kihuen and the possibility he has to run for reelection.
President Donald Trump appears committed to imposing new tariffs, 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum.
On Monday, House Democrats introduced an assault weapons ban. Of the 193 Democrats in the House, 168 are sponsors or co-sponsors, including Nevada’s three House Democrats.
Last week, Republican gubernatorial candidate and attorney general Adam Laxalt visited First Choice Pregnancy Services, a crisis pregnancy center.
Being a shooting victim doesn’t make you an expert on ending gun violence. You wouldn’t know that from watching CNN.
After every mass shooting, elected Democrats and their allies in the media tell Americans to “do something.” The response to Wednesday’s horrific shooting in Florida has been no different.
After every mass shooting, elected Democrats and their allies in the media tell Americans to “do something.” The response to Wednesday’s horrific shooting in Florida has been no different.
Victor Joecks talks about the education establishment wanting more money.
The good parts of Trump’s speech — and there were many — were great. He highlighted the roaring economy, talked about how tax reform is putting more money in your pocket and detailed why America is a great country. It’s also nice to, once again, have a president who’s more eager to brag about America’s strengths than to apologize for them.
Two weeks ago, the House of Representatives approved the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. The bill does exactly what the name suggests and creates protections for babies who survive attempted abortions.
For years, Democrats have sought permanent protections for illegal aliens who came to the United States as children. Trump’s plan offers that and not just for the 690,000 who signed up
for DACA. He’s offering legal status and a path to citizenship for 1.8 million illegal
immigrations who came to the U.S. as children.
It doesn’t matter who CCSD hires. It doesn’t matter if he or she has financial expertise and loads of political savvy. The next superintendent isn’t going to have the one thing he or she actually needs — authority.
Sitting in her Clark High School math class, Daniela Lopez longed to go to a private school. There was just one, seemingly insurmountable problem. Her family couldn’t afford it. Thanks to school choice, they didn’t have to. Fortunately for Lopez, Gov. Brian Sandoval and legislative Republicans passed the OpportunityScholarship program in 2015.
Teen girls shouldn’t have to take their pants off in front of random teenage boys. The Clark County School District disagrees.
On Thursday, the House passed a temporary spending measure and six years of funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Although Republicans have a slim majority in the Senate, Senate rules require a spending bill to get 60 votes. This gives Democrats the power to shut down the government, which they look eager to do. Democrats in both houses want protections for illegal aliens brought to the U.S. as children.
The law states that giving the public access to government records “foster(s) democratic principles.” That’s strong rhetoric and rightly so. Government officials work for the public. That makes members of the public, the boss. One of your rights as a supervisor is to know what your employees are doing. Too often they refuse.
In the Art of the Deal, Donald Trump writes, “Leverage: don’t make deals without it.”
Republicans have plenty of leverage in the stalled negotiations over passing a new version of the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. It’s time for them to quit negotiating with Democrats
and use it.
On Thursday, Pence offered remarks at two Air Force events, accompanied by Sen. Dean Heller and attorney general Adam Laxalt. Pence acknowledged Laxalt, but went out of his way to praise Heller.
Clark County residents have endured over a dozen tax increases, including increases in the sales tax, property tax, car tab tax and gas tax. There was also the creation of a new gross receipts tax called the commerce tax. That’s on top of dozens of fee increases based by Carson City.
Last year, President Donald Trump’s election integrity commission asked Nevada for voter information. Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske gave the commission, which Trump disbanded Wednesday, the information state law required her to release, but not things like Social Security Numbers.
If you thought the Clark County School District’s budget problems were over, think again. An
unelected, unaccountable, out-of- state arbitrator could leave CCSD without enough money to
pay its bills.
Review-Journal reporter Victor Joecks provides four 2018 predictions.
For start to finish, the recall of an elected official in Nevada is supposed to take just over 120 days. Four months after the start of recalls against Sens. Joyce Woodhouse and Nicole Cannizzaro, however, it looks like the process isn’t even half over.
This summer, Democrats elected Erika Washington, an African-American woman, to CCDP’s number two spot. One of her jobs was to fill CCDP’s Political Organizing Committee, which works on voter outreach and mobilization. Washington selected three African-American women
to serve. That wasn’t acceptable to West, a white woman, because it would put too many black women on the 13 member committee.
Ten days ago, Buzzfeed reported that Kihuen’s former finance director had accused him of sexually harassing her and touching her thigh twice in early 2016. Identified by her first name, Samantha, who was 25, says then-candidate Kihuen asked her for sex, and she rejected her advances. Disgusted by his behavior, Samantha quit the campaign and told the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee why she was quitting.
Over the last week, CCSD has conducted five community meetings on the proposal. Transgender students have shared stories of being bullied at school in their push for the policy. But Nevada already has one of the most aggressive anti-bullying laws in the country. This includes a requirement that an investigation into bullying occur within one day.
If you think the Clark County School District has budget problems now, imagine how bad it’ll be if Amazon selects Las Vegas as the site of its second headquarters.