Require the high schools to offer a guarantee on their diplomas. If a recent graduate cannot get into a NV college without remediation, make the high school provide it without charge.
Some Nevada State Prison (NSP) prison guards are pushing back on Governor Gibbons’ and Prison System Director Howard Skolnick’s proposal to shut down the old Nevada State Prison on 5th Street.
The Carson City Relay For Life will kick off its annual effort to fight cancer with a open house celebration on Feb. 11 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Carson Nugget.
As a recent high school graduate, I am not surprised that kids are unable to transition at the college level. But why should tax payers or anybody have to pick up their slack?
Former Lyon County Public Administrator Richard Glover was re-booked into the Lyon County Jail this week on additional charges that he absconded with property of deceased persons which he was supposed
When Arlene Williams began interviewing local volunteers for Nevada Volunteers, the nonprofit she serves with, she realized how valuable it would be to write a blog about her conversations.
It seems as if the schools have failed miserably. I was under the impression that high school was to prepare students for an easy transition to college, the military or into the work force.
That’s certainly an option. The new “nodule” type nuclear fuel technology is nothing like the old stuff. It’s touted as being far safer. Worth exploring for sure.
The Collective Vs. The Individual
By Karl Neathammer
In the Star Trek fictional universe, assimilation is the process by which the Borg integrate beings and cultures into their collective.
Often times the fault does not lay with the teachers, but rather with the fact that “some kids” are just not ready for learning; everyone develops differently; some are ready for say 10th grade som
Groups of Nevada teachers are holding protest rallies in Reno, Carson City and Las Vegas today to voice their anger at Governor Gibbons’ proposed budget cuts.
In what can only be described as a “perfect storm,” state Democratic Party leaders find themselves handcuffed by circumstances that prevent bold moves to change the course of the state during the rece
Unfortunately it is becoming more and more apparent that the countries and environments of the world are much more tightly connected than we’ve been willing to acknowledge.
Carson City School District Director of Curriculum Sue Keema told her Board of Trustees Tuesday night that a substantial percentage of Nevada high school graduates, including those from Carson High Sc
A voter petition circulating throughout Nevada to force big mining to pay higher taxes has not been on the street for more than a few weeks and already big mining has filed suit to stop it.
The Nevada
Despite rising unemployment and a colder, wetter winter nationwide, Nevada’s gasoline prices are still higher than the national average, and in fact are the 6th highest in the country.
State Senator Bill Raggio called Governor Jim Gibbons’ speech Monday day “strictly political” and that to blame the state legislature for the state’s financial troubles is an incredulous poltical stat
Western Nevada College Baseball Team Wins Two
by Anne Hansen, WNC
Western Nevada College’s baseball team finished strong in a doubleheader against Pima Community College of Tucson, played at UNLV over
The Western Nevada College athletic program continued its success in the classroom as both the WNC baseball and softball teams maintained a cumulative grade point average above 3.0 for the fall
I had a friend once who was a staunch conservative and always called for lower taxes and less government until one day his wife had a debilitating stroke.
How nice. But has any grant money been secured for upkeep and maintainence? These structures will be irresistable and will be damaged, defaced and tagged nightly.
CARSON CITY – Western Nevada College’s baseball and softball teams have yet to play a 2010 season game on their home fields, but they have already earned accolades on campus.
CHS indoor track and field Carson athletes compete at California meet By Dave Price A quartet of Carson High athletes returned home from Fresno, Calif., with good results from Run For T
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Final decisions are coming up in the next few weeks on the look and visual texture of landscaping for the Carson City Freeway!
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After years of planning and searching out grants, Carson City’s new freeway will soon have a freeway landscaping design like no other in the country. Part 2
Saying that government must be reduced and that Nevadans can solve their own problems without help from Washington DC, Governor Gibbons tonight laid down the gauntlet: “No New Taxes and cut the budge
From the National Weather Service in Reno:
Warning Message:A cold low pressure system will drop from the Gulf of Alaska
southward along the California coastline on tonight into tomorrow.
This will bri
Sheriff’s deputies are surrounding a home on Apollo Drive after a motorist reported that a car following behind her on Panamint drove around her and while passing pointed a gun at her.
As Nevadans from Las Vegas to Gerlach, and from Reno to Ely watch Governor Gibbons tonight at 6 on TV, they’ll be watching a Governor lay out the state’s darkest picture in the history of Nevada.
