‘I need a superman for me’: Homeless home care worker advocates for better working conditions, a living wage

As chancellor for the Nevada System of Higher Education, Thom Reilly makes no bones about his position on traditional remediation at Nevada colleges and universities.  “Remedial education at the community college and university level, both in Nevada and nationally, is a failure,” Reilly said. 

Former Vice President Joe Biden, asked at a downtown Las Vegas event on Saturday how to get a younger generation of Democratic voters on board his presidential campaign who want “radical, revolutionary change,” dismissed the premise outright.

The House last week voted to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025 and to repeal the so-called Cadillac tax on employer provided health care after agreeing to dismiss a proposal to impeach President Donald Trump and condemning his tweets against four Democratic congresswomen as racist.

Senate Republicans are mounting a legal challenge to a Democratic-backed bill removing a scheduled decrease in the state’s payroll tax rate, which could have significant ramifications for the state’s two-year budget.

University of Nevada, Reno President Marc Johnson discussed the plan during a Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents special meeting on Friday. The university’s search for a space to accommodate 1,300 students began after two of its student dormitories, Argenta Hall and Nye Hall, were damaged in two explosions on July 5. 

The governor’s office and the corrections agency jointly announced Dzurenda’s departure on Friday, saying that he was leaving to pursue new opportunities and spend more time with his family and children in Southern Nevada. The effective date of his resignation is expected to be announced in the near future, officials said.

Clark County commissioners and school trustees batted around ideas Thursday night about how extra money — courtesy of a potential sales tax increase — could improve education. The recent passage of AB309, which gave county commissioners the power to increase the sales tax by one quarter of one percent in Clark County, was the impetus for the joint meeting.

“I think the writing is on the wall that it will go out of business if we can not have the same opportunities as others,” said Zakalik. “As we have seen in other industries and present in this industry, there will be a strategic approach by those who own majority licenses to essentially put them out of business.”