Jesus Jara’s term was longer than average for superintendents in the nation’s largest districts, research shows.
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The First Amendment provides speech protection for people in the United States, but some states try to criminally target a person for their speech.
The fourth-highest spending category for district-issued credit card use might surprise you.
Nye County District Attorney Brian Kunzi said he does not believe some law enforcement records should be released before a criminal investigation concludes.
Experts say redacting the records violates state law and damages government transparency.
Several Clark County School Board members, who claim Katie Williams no longer lives in the district, want her to relinquish her seat on the board.
Four years after the pandemic hit, Southern Nevada’s unemployment rate is still higher than it was before the crisis.
Las Vegas’ budget has already taken a hit from one of the cases won by developer Yohan Lowie, whose stymied housing plans for a shuttered golf course led to extensive litigation.
The Review-Journal reached out to all mayoral candidates on how the city should pay for Badlands-related court rulings, and whether they agreed with the city’s yearslong legal battle.
Overtime pay more than doubled the base salaries of some Clark County firefighters, costing taxpayers more than $20 million in 2022, county pay records show.
Minnesota attorney general found the company improperly changed rules there but residents say Nevada officials have done little to protect them.
A handful of administrators earned $100,000 at College of Southern Nevada in 2022, but the average pay was less than half that.
Before leaving CCSD this year, then-Superintendent Jesus Jara gave members of his executive cabinet significant raises, including a pay hike of 40 percent to the chief of police.
The pay ratio of the top boss to the typical employee shot past 100-to-1 at several companies with sizable holdings in Southern Nevada, including casino operators.
University Medical Center defends the $115,200-a-year contract of an influential doctor, but the public hospital can’t document cases he has reviewed.
