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The Sober Party?
They’re recovered, and they vote. “This is going to be a multi-tiered, multi-year effort and eventually we’ll run candidates in recovery for the Legislature or even statewide office,” says Ryan Hampton, spokesperson for Recovery PAC, a Nevada-based, non-partisan political action committee formed earlier this year in response to the opiate crisis. The PAC’s officers are connected […]
DA undaunted by lack of grand jury indictments
For the second time in a week, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson is taking steps to pursue criminal charges in cases where the grand jury returned no indictment. Attorney Ross Goodman represents UFC fighter Nick Diaz, who is charged with felony domestic violence counts. Goodman says he thought Monday the case was dismissed and […]
No comment: The verbal paralysis of public officials
President Richard Nixon: No reporter from the Washington Post is ever to be in the White House again. And no photographer either. No photographer. Is that clear? None ever to be in. Now that is a total order and if necessary I’ll fire you. You understand? Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler: I do understand. Nixon: Okay. […]
Nevada Republican National Committeewoman slams candidates, resigns
The Republican slate of “state and national” candidates is getting panned from an unlikely source — the party’s own National Committeewoman in Nevada, Diana Orrock. Orrock took her frustration to social media Sunday morning and posted her resignation on Facebook. “I find less and less enjoyment in having to support candidates who not only are […]
Wage theft “epidemic” in construction. Taxpayers paying the tab.
A new ad from Attorney General Adam Laxalt’s gubernatorial campaign alleges his opponent, Steve Sisolak, awarded a public works job to Las Vegas Paving, a union company, for $100 million, over a non-union contractor who bid $4.6 million less. But construction industry experts contend lower bids generate projects that are too often built on the […]
Rehab exec cops to the truth
If you want a revealing look inside the growth industry of our time — the drug and alcohol rehab sector — take a look at this House subcommittee hearing from Tuesday. Of particular interest is the testimony from American Addiction Center’s CEO Michael Cartwright. The company owns Desert Hope and Solutions in Las Vegas. Last […]
Judge troubled by allegations of dirty cops
A Clark County judge says allegations of police misconduct in a case that sent a convicted pimp to prison for life are “very troubling.” Judge Michael Villani sent Ocean Fleming to prison in 2012 based, in part, on the testimony of witnesses who now contend they were coached and coerced by then-Metro Vice Detectives Chris […]
Solutions Treatment sued over client death
The mother of a 23-year-old young man who died while in a residential drug and alcohol treatment home in Las Vegas is blaming rehab behemoth American Addiction Center’s business model for her son’s death. Kathy Deem is suing Solutions Recovery and Solutions Treatment, owned by AAC, saying the company advertised medical treatment it was […]
Sex sells. Who’s minding the store?
“The idea is there’s a lot of money in a very, very small space. The criminals know it. That’s why they flock to the city. Because of it you see a lot of people coming here and trafficking in women. We also have a slogan here – “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” – […]
DHS: MGM shooting liability in hands of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
Despite parallel federal court battles in Nevada and California seeking to determine whether the Las Vegas Strip shooting massacre qualifies as an act of terror under the SAFETY Act, the Department of Homeland Security tells the Current the designation is up to embattled DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. The Current looked but could not find any […]
Green Valley Ranch ordered to negotiate with Culinary
Station Casinos is on the losing end of an effort to delay negotiations with the Culinary and Bartenders Unions. The National Labor Relations Board rejected the company’s legal challenge to a union election held in November 2017. The NLRB ruling says 78 percent of Green Valley Ranch Resort’s eligible employees voted in favor of unionization, […]
Attorney calls for law change following failure to prosecute alleged baby sex offender
Sometimes confessing to a crime, even to police, is not enough to make the case. Las Vegas attorney Stephen Stubbs is defending his decision to identify an alleged child molestor on Facebook and a YouTube video post because Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has so far declined to file charges. Stubbs says he […]