Posted by Webmaster on July 1, 2009 under News
Mazzeo poses in front of her attorney's collection of... WHAT?
Law enforcement has thoroughly investigated and dismissed the claims by part-time cocktail waitress Chrissy Mazzeo (warning: the link goes to boudoir photos of Mazzeo that she is publishing on the internet to further boost her career) that Governor Gibbons hit on her, thus causing her concern for her welfare.
So why is the Las Vegas Sun reporting the story again today, complete with a six month old photo misleadingly presented as current?
The best part was the photo they ran, which covered about a quarter page.
You can see the photo to the right.
The best part of this photo is what it says about Ms. Mazzeo’s attorney. Kudos to my wife, who pointed out the wall behind the pair. Does her attorney specialize in torture?
As you can see, the photo has been removed from the Sun’s website version of today’s story.
Posted by Webmaster on June 26, 2009 under Higher Ed
The Reno Gazette Journal’s headline shouts: “UNR Eliminates 279 Jobs” but of course they are lying. If you read deep within Lenita Powers’ article, you’ll find the truth:
- UNR paid 37 people extra to retire who wanted to retire anyway (1% of the workforce)
- UNR didn’t extend the contracts of 37 employees (1.2% of the workforce) for whom there was no obligation to extend the contracts
- The other 211 “employees”, were either not actually employees (just new people UNR hoped it might be able to hire) or are employees that will remain as employees but will be “paid out of a different account” (6.7% of the workforce)
Prior to these “drastic” cuts, UNR counted 3,145 positions (not all actually filled) according to this spreadsheet:
http://www.unr.edu/vpaf/pba/budget/historical/09state&selfFTE.xls
Posted by Webmaster on June 24, 2009 under Water
A cynic might say the head of the Southern Nevada Water Authority has engineered a big rise in the water levels of reservoirs upstream from Lake Mead in order to preserve the appearance of extended draught for short-sighted Las Vegans. Her motive would be to create public support for her environmentally- and taxpayer-destructive plan to drain water basins hundreds of miles north of Las Vegas, which would allow her to spend billions of construction dollars and collect political patronage like iron filings to a magnet.
Here’s the story from KLAS channel 8. You decide.
Posted by Webmaster on June 23, 2009 under Administration, K-12
Giant school districts sometimes make poor choices. Such is the case in this report from MSNBC on how a school district – just four slots larger than the Clark County School District on the list of America’s most giant school districts – is paying over 700 teachers to not do any work. Paying them in full, with full benefits, summers off, the whole nine years.
Posted by Webmaster on May 1, 2009 under Economy In Brief
Here’s the first quarter “Nevada Economy In Brief” published by the Nevada Employment Security Department.
Posted by Webmaster on April 20, 2009 under Public Safety
The trend for governments to install red-light traffic cameras – which automatically write tickets to cars that are in an intersection when the light turns red – then shorten up the length of the yellow light seems to be generating a backlash.
It may be all about jacking up fine monies to the governments, but it’s about fair play to the public. The Wall Street Journal reports on the trend…
