Call me a journalist at heart. I just want to get to the bottom of any story, learn the truth and tell it to you. News and everything about it is who I am. But, I am also compelled to share my insights about many other things in life, like what it's really like to live in Las Vegas.
On a more personal note, I love my family, friends, animals and life itself. I often talk about those subjects, along with other topics that interest me, such as how bad television programming is today, how much I despise litter, graffiti, reckless drivers and people who have poor manners and a lack of respect for people and the law.
Welcome to Crystal's View.
In Nevada, one out of every five children, or more than 135,000, currently have no health insurance. That's enough kids to fill more than 2,000 school buses. Now that the federal COBRA subsidy program just expired, that number is rising everyday.
Nevada transportation planners are collecting public comment on a plan to widen the busy U.S. 95 freeway between downtown Las Vegas and the foothills of Henderson.
Las Vegas is a 24-hour town, bustling at all hours of the day and night. Now students can also take classes during twilight hours at the College of Southern Nevada. CSN is the first college in the state to try this out.
Parents trust their kid's teachers to give them the preparation that will get them into college. But a recent survey found that only 9-percent of high school teachers believe their primary goal is to prepare students for college.