This is probably the fairest way that Henderson could have handled this situation. The Henderson City Council should be commended.

I'll admit to being concerned with the Democratic fundraising numbers. However, we have an ace in the hole with the Senate Majority Leader and our status as a swing state. Plenty of money will be flowing into the Silver State in 2012, but the State Senate Democrats need to be smart enough to grab some of it.

Hopefully, just as the GOP is using names to scare money out of donors, the Democrats can start doing the same thing (um, hello, do we want Nevada to be another Wisconsin? I think not). I just hope State Senate Leadership has the guts to do it.

I'm not really sure how I feel about this. While I'm no fan of Steve Ross, he won his district fairly convincingly in 2009 with his constituents knowing he was found guilt of ethics violations. It appears to me that Scala is angry because Ross didn't take his bribe, and I have no faith that the organizer - Lisa Mayo-DeRiso - is anything more than a busy-body who obsesses about the Councilman and is really only in this for her own personal enrichment.

This money would be better spent if the organizers waited until 2013 and focused their efforts on a new challenger then. But that's just me.

A-Tech is an amazing school. Many of the magnet schools in Clark County offer superb educations within the Clark County School District. These are public schools, with specialized programs. These are not charter schools.

What a fine mess Mayor Buck has created. As the lone surviving council member who approved these contracts, she's all but ensured that she will be defeated, should she foolishly run for re-election in 2013. The budget deficit can no longer be closed with budget gimmicks and creative accounting. It's time for hard decisions to be made.

I personally believe that State Sen. Lee or Horsford would have been a great representatives of the Fourth Congressional district. Should Sen. Lee back out, this should quiet people questioning Sen. Lee's loyalty to the Democratic party. Donors won't have to make a choice in the primary, and Sen. Horsford can go out and take on whomever the GOP puts up there. One divisive primary is enough, we don't need two.

It's time for Mayor Buck to go. She has failed to provide the city any sort of leadership since she took office. As a City Councilwoman, she approved the current contracts that are killing the City. She allowed the City Manager to rewrite his own contract, including a lucrative Golden Parachute. She voted to spend the money for the new City Hall and allowed construction to begin in a down economy.

When it proved that her hand-picked City Manager was not actually managing the city (and in fact, had mismanaged the More Cops funds), she actually voted to let him keep his job!

She sat pensively on the dais for the first two years and first three rounds of budget cuts. She offered no pro-active solutions and did nothing to build a consensus plan to put the City on the track of long-term fiscal health.

The solution voted on last night is only a band-aid. They'll have to go back to all of the unions in a couple of months for more concessions. You know Mayor Buck - if you would have shown a scintilla of leadership in these tough times, you could have been a rock star. Instead, you are more like a third-tier groupie.

Well said.

So let me get this straight, first, Mayor Buck goes running to the media stating they've spent $100K on lawsuits and it's caused her emotion distress, now her sycophant sues the city for 2/3 of that amount (not to mention the legal fees former Mayor Montandon requested). Clearly, it was her allies that cost the city more money.

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

Just another example of Mayor Buck's failed leadership.

But, TomD1228, the reason the City of North Las Vegas has no money is because of HER record of poor/non-existent leadership! She's the one that made the foolish decisions and not pro-actively managed the city's liabilities. Henderson and Las Vegas were more proactive and communicative with their employees and they are in a far better position. However, because Shari Buck has poorly managed the city's finances and provided no citizen oversight, along with caving to the public safety unions who support her Mayoral election campaign, the City of North Las Vegas is in this position.

She has got to go. Period.