From the Las Vegas Optic A former Las Vegas City Schools teacher and volleyball coach filed a lawsuit last week alleging she was retaliated against and wrongfully terminated after she raised concerns of allegations of harassment of girls by the district’s male coaches. In the lawsuit — filed under New Mexico’s Whistleblower Protection Act —…
From the Las Vegas Optic A Las Vegas man has been charged with attempting to hit a man with an SUV after taking a document valued at more than $20,000. Workers at High Plains Processing south of Las Vegas called police around 11 a.m. on Oct. 12 to say that Gail Houser, 71, who’d quit…
From the Idaho Business Review Nampa-based Valley Wide Cooperative Inc. is expanding through a merger with a Washington state co-op. The merger brings together agronomy, energy and farm supply co-op Valley Wide and Ag Link Inc., a co-op retailer that sells fertilizer, crop nutrients and petroleum products in a move that will further extend Valley…
From the Las Vegas Optic City of Las Vegas Chief of Police Adrian Crespin has given the city notice he will resign at the end of the month, but he told the Optic he doesn’t want to leave. “I was given the choice between resigning or having council vote me out,” Crespin said. “After 26…
From the Las Vegas Optic A whistleblower lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses former San Miguel County District Attorney Richard Flores and current District Attorney Tom Clayton of terminating a prosecutor for raising concerns about a judge presiding over a case. The suit centers on two 2019 criminal cases heard in Fourth Judicial District Court by then-state…
From the Las Vegas Optic Luna Community College is facing a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by a former employee who alleges Luna violated his state constitutional rights by firing him for using medical cannabis. At the center of the lawsuit is an employee’s right to use medical cannabis, and whether an employer can terminate someone…
From the Las Vegas Optic No new coronavirus cases were detected during testing of all inmates and staff at the San Miguel County Detention Center, according to Warden Matt Elwell. The testing was prompted after one inmate tested positive May 5 during routine testing. New Mexico Department of Health officials tested staff and other inmates…
From the Idaho Business Review Idaho’s seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate remained at 2.9% for the third straight month as nonfarm jobs saw the nation’s second-largest increase, according to data recently released by the Idaho Department of Labor. The number of unemployed Idahoans increased by 136 to 25,626, while the amount of total employment increased by 2,770…
Originally published by Firebrand Progressives An average screen-printed T-shirt costs around $15. Someone earning the current federal minimum wage would have to work more than two hours to buy one. And while prices for nearly everything consumers purchase continue to go up, minimum wage rarely increases. From September 1997 to July 2007, the federal…
Originally published by the Progressive Populist The scene was horrific. Over 2,500 people trapped helplessly beneath rubble—some for more than 12 hours—waiting for rescuers to find them. Over 1,100 other people didn’t get out alive. This was one year ago this week at the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh, a leading producer of clothing…
