Morning-After Pill: How Mars discovery: Rock How do Americans feel Politics of Plan B Has reveals science of about NSA surveillance? Changed for Obama planet’s watery past Ambivalent PAGE 2 PAGE 10 PAGE 11 Volume 15, Issue 14 June 12-18, 2013 Ward 5 Chamber of Commerce Member LasVegasBlackCommunity SufferingLackofLeadership By Rolando Larraz from their Clark County Commis- All of them are Black Ameri- inquest, Las Vegas Tribune re- “Abuse and murders of Black Las Vegas Tribune sioner, Lawrence Weekly, and never cans. minded the board how lucky they citizens are only tolerated in a city Assemblyman Steve Brooks was had a response — yea or nay — to During a county commission were to be public figures in a city like Las Vegas,” we pointed out to betrayed and stabbed in the back by their request; they were completely meeting last year, addressing the where the Black community has no the board of commissioners, unlike some members of his own race and ignored by their elected official. changes regarding the coroner’s leadership. in other cities where the commu- organization who wanted him out nity would be up in arms when of that organization and out of the abuses and injustices happen. Un- Nevada Legislature. fortunately, Las Vegas Blacks seem Nakia Woodson was deprived of to be leaderless. running her own business — which When the spokesperson asked was up for a renewal — in the area where the Black leaders in Las Ve- in which she lives, by her Council- gas are, he did not know that former man, Ricki Barlow. When she went city councilman Frank Hawkins to renew her business license, was seated in the audience with the Councilman Barlow denied her President of the Police Protective right to operate her business where Association, Chris Collins. she had been for the first period of The Police Protective Associa- her license, forcing her to close and tion is the police union that repre- denying her right to probate for her sents the police officers that are in- family. volved in abuse, mistreatment and The Jones family asked for help Ricki Barlow Lawrence Weekly Frank Hawkins (See Black Leaders, Page 6) My Point UrbanLeagueFiascoLingersOn of View By Rolando Larraz By Natasha Minsky ban League decided to ignore other Las Vegas Sentinel-Voice, the Las Vegas Tribune applications after the final appli- first and largest Black-owned and - It was very sad to learn that St. The saga of the Urban League cants were interviewed for the po- operated newspaper in Nevada, has Joseph’s Catholic School is closing continues, and has now reached a sition and hire a young California been distributed at the church for its doors for good, as of last Friday, new low for pettiness, since the vic- transplant with no work history in the last three decades, as it has also because there is no money to sup- tim in this case was forced to file a Las Vegas, who was not part of the been distributed to the majority of port that oldest school in our com- 10-day demand preceding a filing application process and did not the business locations in the pre- munity. in small claims court. even apply for the job. dominantly black West Las Vegas. The school, which is part of the Recently, Louis Overstreet, the The controversy was aired on the During an interview with the Las St. Joan of Arc Roman Catholic man in the center of this discrimi- radio show, “Face the Tribune” and Vegas Tribune newspaper, Louis Church parish, in which each build- nation drama with the Las Vegas on Ramon Savoy’s Black Power Overstreet regrettably stated that ing is as old as any other, had been Urban League, was forced to send radio show, resulting in the Chair- Chaney would have to rank in the the school of choice for many chil- a 10-day demand after the Board, man of the Board of the Las Vegas top five of the most petty people he dren of some of the more promi- following orders from its chairman Urban League — D. Edward has ever met. nently important and wealthy fami- of the League, refused — or just E. Louis Overstreet Chaney, who is also the pastor of Chaney must be concerned with lies of our community. ignored — his repeated requests for stated on the application form he the Second Baptist Church — ban- the legal consequences in this case, A letter penned by Administra- the return of the personal papers and filled out when he applied for the ning Savoy’s Las Vegas Sentinel- but maybe now he’ll be a little more tor Father Dave Casaleggio and books that he authored, and which position of President/CEO of that Voice from the church for allowing careful when making any claims, as Principal James Machinski ex- were presented as part of the for- organization. Overstreet to speak about the mat- in telling the truth and nothing but plained very clearly the sad reality mal application requirement, as The Board of the Las Vegas Ur- ter on his show. the truth. of why the school succumbed to fi- nancial disaster: “This decision was the result of a painstaking, months- JudicialSelectionProcessTaintedbyJustices’ long review of enrollment numbers, financial capability, as well as plant and facility needs.” FraudCoveruptoBenefitLawyer’sNomination Many people are wondering why the school did not notify the Nevada Supreme Court Justices Abused Power To Cover Up Evidence of Fraud community of the closing and per- By Perly Viasmensky Judges Gloria S. Sanchez and haps the money could have been Part Three of a Three-part Series Sandra L. Pomrenze conspired, un- raised to keep the school open. Eighth Judicial District Court der color of law, with Mr. I don’t know Principal Judge, Bryce C. Duckworth, was Duckworth, Smith Larsen & Machinski, but I think I know Fa- the first attorney appointed to the Wixom, Dr. Louis Mortillaro, and ther Dave fairly well, and I know family court in 2008 by the Nevada her ex-husband, Charles Giampa, to how many wealthy people in our Judicial Selection Committee. His interfere with her parental rights. city will do anything and everything nomination is being criticized by a The case against the defendants for Father Dave. mother and self-represented liti- depicts a deceitful scheme to All he would have to do is sit in gant, who was falsely labeled fraudulently conceal two psychia- his office and start making phone “vexatious” to the Nevada Supreme trists’ evaluations in a motion on calls to all those wealthy people that Court to benefit his nomination as parent-child issues depriving her of he knows and start collecting tons a family court judge. notice to discredit Ms. Giampa’s of money. In May 2008, Mr. Duckworth status as primary custodian. Further, Many of those wealthy people, applied for the position to fill the she was shocked to learn that with- like the Chairman of the State Re- vacancy of the Eighth Judicial Dis- Judge Gloria Sanchez Judge Sandra Pomrenze out her knowledge, defendants con- publican Party, Michael McDonald, trict Court. In his application for ap- bons, three attorneys appointed by one of three recommended finalists cealed the children away from her has in the past borrowed money pointment, he says he spent 100 the Nevada State Bar Association, whose names were forwarded to to live without parental supervision from Father Dave before Mc percent of his time on family and and three non-attorneys appointed Gov. Gibbons, who made the final in the Country Club Towers to pre- Donald himself became wealthy juvenile matters. by Gov. Jim Gibbons, who is not decision. vent her from having any contact enough to be driving around town The Judicial Selection Commis- related to Chief Justice Gibbons. In 2010, Victoria Giampa filed with them. in a limousine of his own with an sion included Nevada Supreme Other lawyers considered Mr. a civil rights complaint in state court In 2012, she filed a second civil (See Redress, Page 6) Irish 1 license plate. Court Chief Justice Mark W. Gib- Duckworth well-skilled, and he was claiming Nevada family court However, there I go again, with my paranoia and my suspicious FROM THE DESK OF JACOB STUART mind, as Elvis Presley once sang, creating doubt in most people’s Another Daughter of Las Vegas Lost in the Desert minds. I believe that a wealthy down- By Jacob N. Stuart “media” in Las Vegas used an ef- It was from a family member of town tycoon, or wannabe tycoon, Special to the Las Vegas Tribune fortless excerpt from The Associ- Vanniesa. To be brutally honest, I is interested in that property located In May of 2012, Vanniesa ated Press, giving us the illusion was nervous. I knew I wrote an ar- in a prime real estate corner of our Caroline Fernandez wrote to a per- they gave a damn. ticle about her in The Las Vegas city and that is why the closing of son on Yahoo who was insecure Last week I woke up with a cruel Informer a couple days ago, but the school has been kept under about her life being too “small.” She hangover. My head felt like it was why would that result in an e-mail wraps, in secrecy, concealed from responded by saying, “...Good or being knocked around by a tennis from a close family member? I the public. bad, life is great, everyday above racket. Then, some degenerate at a thought. I quickly re-read my ar- In my humble opinion, whoever the ground is a good day.” This past collections agency was calling, ask- ticle, assuring myself I didn’t say is behind this decision of closing the month, May of 2013, Vanniesa was ing for my money.