It sounds like Floyd Hale is doing a reasonably good job trying to protect the victims from harassment by the malpractice defense attorneys, who are in my personal opinion the scum of the earth.

However, I have a practical suggestion for members of the public to express their disgust with Dr. Desai & Co. Let's out all the malpractice defense attorneys by making their names as prominent as Dr. Desai.

So here's the first lower than a snake defense attorney "Daniel Curriden". Shun the guy at church and in his neighborhood. Don't let your kids play with his kids. Kick his wife out of the junior league. Lose his reservations when he goes out to dinner. Make Curriden and each of the other malpractice defense attorneys as famous as Glen Lerner.

It's not Dr. Desai & Co. who are going to emotionally brutalize the victims. It's Daniel Curriden and his ilk.

I'm sure that no one, except me, sees the importance of the map next to the article about Councilman Ross. I'm a "Tree Person", from well before it was fashionable to be an environmentalist.

I had the good fortune of growing up in a city planned by Olmstead, the earliest and foremost city planner of the 1800's. Olmstead is also responsible for much of the design of Washington DC. In all cases, Olmstead was wise enough to see that ample tree cover was essential to reducing the heat of the growing urban metropolis even then.

All of the City of Las Vegas, City of North Las Vegas and Clark County need to pay far more attention to the planting and watering of street trees, to the design of sidewalks and spaces between them and the curb which will allow the trees to grow, and to the planting of street trees which will maximize their contribution to "air scrubbing" which so so essential to preserving and improving the valley's air quality.

We all like to say that Las Vegas is better than the San Fernando Valley...but it's not. View the San Fernando Valley from any freeway and you'll see miles and miles of trees, which clean that valley's air.

The ridiculously small economic contribution of the public agencies to understanding the importance of street trees, as well as the planning decision makers' indifference about requiring the planting of street trees, condemn the Las Vegas Valley to worsening air quality.

Home builders like American West, who as a matter of policy refuse to plant street trees are a major part of the problem.

Home builders like Pardee, who sometimes plant street trees, are equally to be condemned because they do not care about their subcontractor Raybum Landscape's failure to plant street trees in a good and workmanlike manner which would be followed by a certified nurseryman.

But for our winds, Las Vegas would already be an air polluted sh*thole like Beijing, because of the masses of people gathered here, with no tree cover to soak up the air polution created by our human activities.

When LAX at the Luxor opened, not too long ago, there were plenty of news stories about the multi-million dollar cost of renovations to create the club space, and to furnish and equip it.

It would be interesting to know who paid for those costs. The partnership which operates the club? The casino as landlord? Or did they split the costs?

If it was not the casino paying the costs of constructing and furnishing the new club, then where did the money come from? Investors? Loans? Skim?

Self important Bill Hanlon says:

“They were taking the entire first nine weeks and doing basic math facts so that kids could pass the proficiency test,” Hanlon said. “That was a bad decision made in good faith.”

What needs to happen, Hanlon said, is for students to be taught the expected material in elementary school before advancing to middle school, and for the same thing to happen before they move on to high school.

“If everyone does the job they are hired to do, we would be in much better shape,” Hanlon said. “When the 10th grader can’t do his work because he didn’t learn what he needed to know by seventh grade and way back in fourth grade, that’s a system designed to fail. And that’s just what happened here.”

What an unfocused, myopic, useless jerk! What, exactly, are the THOUSANDS of high school and junior high school students in the CCSD NOW supposed to do? Not get a high school diploma because of inadequate mathematics teaching at the elementary school level?

The math teachers and math faculties at the high schools who are teaching "the basics" to help high school students pass the Mathematics Proficiency Examination are doing the right thing.

I have two suggestions for Superintendant Rulffes: (1) Transfer Mr. Hanlon to an elementary school position tutoring students in basic mathematics and (2) Require every teacher, dean, assistant principal and principal in the CCSD, at every grade level and every subject, to pass the Mathematics Proficiency Examination on the first try, or lose their job.

As to the later suggestion, if it were implemented I think it would result in the majority of the faculty at the majority of CCSD schools to disappear!

"Finally found a [nickname] for the governor":

Jimbo the Bimbo

As in dumb as a...

Sorry ladies. You're smarter than he is.