New twist on driver's ed

Lombardo's billionaire fetish. I was off last week and only skimming the news. But I confess I am a bit surprised to check back in this morning to find Aaron Ford apparently has not yet released an ad airing Trump sycophant Gov. Joe Lombardo's "Those billionaire friends provide jobs" line, and tying that line directly to Trump's unprecedented corruption, which enriches those billionaires while the bottom three t0 four quintiles of households get financially pummeled by Trump, the billionaires, and their enshittified economy.

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Literally driving schools out of existence? The program is only for the parents or guardians of CCSD students who are zoned for a one-star school but attending a three-, four- or five-star school through the district’s open enrollment policy. Leilah Ortega and April Corbin Girnus report:CCSD boosts internal ‘school choice’ option with novel perk: $1,000 to drive your kids to school

Note: Evidently we, by which I mean Nevada and the nation, will never acknowledge that the leading determiner of educational performance is household financial stability. It's so much easier, politically, to believe that if we just help business then prosperity will trickle out through the rest of the economy and into working households. So since we refuse to acknowledge root causes, let's take another step on the periphery of the problem, hollow out some schools, and see if that helps. That's my takeaway anyway.

Reining in an apartment industry shenanigan is among missions the Clark County Commission thinks your Nevada Legislature should undertake when it meets next year. The shenan in question appears to be saying rent covers water or garbage pickup service but then tacking a surreptitious junk fee on there, as industry does, this being our times. Michael Lyle reports: Clark County wants utility fee transparency, crack down on illegal mobile billboards

Ooh, silver lining. Sure, the U.S. burned through a bazillion dollars worth of air defense weaponry and got jack all in terms of productive results to show for it. But hey, losing a war against an atrocious and vile but second-tier at best regime and leaving that regime with more global influence than it had before is bound to cost a buck or two. And now a few towns might get some ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT!!! as the nation rushes to spend gigajillions to refurbish its weaponry. Sounds legit. Better than spending all that money on, eh, health care, right? Via the D.C. bureau: As Trump pushes for a massive $1.5T in defense spending, a few states brace for a windfall

Child marriage: Pro or con? Turns out this is a thing that is still a thing. Via Stateline. More states ban child marriage, though it’s still legal in most of the US

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