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Nevada Children’s Report Card: F-, F, F-, F
Nevada received an overall “F” grade for education – again — according to the 2018 Nevada Children’s Report Card released this week by the Children’s Advocacy Alliance (CAA). The key areas most in need of improvements, according to the report, are school readiness, student achievement, high school completion, and funding. School Readiness: F- Nevada is […]
GOP food stamp bill could force state to hire 900 people
The farm bill that passed the U.S. House in July would throw an estimated 13,000 Nevadans off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)— more commonly known as food stamps — while forcing the state to hire as many as 900 more case managers to administer new work and training requirements. The legislation, currently stalled in the Senate, […]
Indigenous runners fight to protect water, culture
This story spans 29 years, 300 miles, and the growth of a thirsty city in a desert. The Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), on a mission to find water to accommodate growth in Southern Nevada, believes pumping groundwater from rural Nevada and piping it to Southern Nevada is essential due to Colorado River shortages that […]
ACLU demands answers in Tashii Brown case
The ACLU of Nevada and NAACP Las Vegas have submitted a public records request to the office of Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson in an attempt to gather more information on the death of Tashii Brown, who died last year after Las Vegas police officer Kenneth Lopera placed him in an illegal chokehold after […]
Medicaid mental health service gets a reprieve
Nevada Medicaid will rescind plans to limit mental health services it put in place last month. Facing a $56 million deficit this year, Nevada Medicaid officials say they would be scaling down services and cutting reimbursements as they intended last year. One of these cuts was approved in August. It required mental health providers […]
Strict THC limits linger in courts even after pot legalized
Tuesday, Jeff Krajnak thought he might be going to jail. “Well tomorrow is the big day. Sentencing and it looks like I’ll be alone in the courtroom again. Thanks for the support and see you guys in a couple years!” wrote Krajnak in a Facebook post. On Wednesday Krajnak, an ex-Navy Seabee, was sentenced to […]
Police fatality review blasted as “charade,” “waste of time”
Margie Day stands outside the heavy wooden double doors leading into the Commission Chambers in the Clark County Government Center. She asks the security guard if the public fact-finding review examining the death of Tashii Brown, who died after an officer placed him in an illegal chokehold, is over. Trinita Farmer, Brown’s mother, was warned […]
Heller, Laxalt have slim leads in Reuters/Ipsos poll
Nevada Republican candidates have an edge over Democrats at the top of the ballot in a Reuters/Ipsos/UVA Center for Politics Poll released Wednesday. Nevada U.S Senator Dean Heller held a 3-percentage-point lead over Democratic U.S Representative Jacky Rosen among likely voters, 49 percent to 46 percent. Heller is the only Republican senator defending a seat […]
Pipeline opponents to SNWA: See you in court
Less than a week after the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) board voted unanimously to appeal a recent ruling by the state engineer that denied the authority water rights for its groundwater pumping and pipeline project, opponents are taking the matter back to court. Monday, a broad coalition of 59 organizations and individuals opposed to […]
SNWA – and Sisolak – keep ‘water grab’ alive
The Southern Nevada Water Authority board voted unanimously Thursday to forge ahead on plans to pump groundwater from rural Nevada and pipe it to Las Vegas. The board voted to appeal a recent ruling that denied the authority’s water rights for a controversial groundwater pipeline project that would siphon more than 7.8 billion gallons of […]
Raiders call end run against NV Energy
The Raiders, who are not yet a customer of NV Energy, don’t want to be. According to a filing with the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada last Friday, LV Stadium Events Company, LLC — parenthetically referred to as “the ‘Raiders'” in the filing — has applied to purchase energy outside of NV Energy, under a […]
UNLV gets good rank for ‘Least Debt’
For the second year in a row, UNLV was named the most diverse undergraduate campus by U.S News and World Report, tied for first place with Rutgers University, Newark. UNLV is a Minority-Serving and Hispanic-Serving Institution, as designated by the U.S. Dept. of Education, with the report noting that 29 percent of the student body […]