Author: Paul White

Paul D. White is a Reno resident and career educator whose program "Gangsters-to-Gardeners" won state and national awards. A two-time Educator-of-the-Year, he is the co-author of White's Rules - Saving Our Youth, One Kid at a Time (Random House) and The Stronghold School Student Handbook. He has written for The Washington Post, LA Daily News, LA Times, Education Week, The Ventura County Citizens Journal, Ventura County Star, Reno Gazette Journal, and The Christian Science Monitor.

OPINION: Wake-up America! An Iranian-born American Citizen’s Message to His Adopted Country

September 3, 2026 2:00 pmSeptember 3, 2026 11:34 am

Washoe County resident Ali (not his real name) was born and raised in Iran as a Shiite Muslim until he was 19. Shortly before the Shah of Iran was deposed in the 1979 Revolution, Ali told his parents he wanted to move to the United States to have more freedom....

OPINION: Solving County’s Homeless-Vagrant Problem: Godly vs. godless approaches

May 19, 2026 6:00 amMay 19, 2026 1:07 am

Within Washoe County are two vastly different approaches for trying to solve its growing homeless-vagrant problem. One approach is Godly. The other is godless. One is God-affirming. The other is God-denying. Which is Which? The God-denying approach is typified by the County-owned and government-funded CARES program. The primary God-affirming programs...

OPINION: Governor Lombardo: Butt OUT of Washoe Elections and Do YOUR Job.

May 3, 2026 12:00 pmMay 6, 2026 4:26 am

What does a first-term Republican governor do when re-election time is approaching, and he has no major accomplishments to show for the past 4 years, other than swatting-back the usual armload of gadfly bills from the Left. If you’re Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo, you ignore the vital problems you were...

OPINION: “Option 3” The Best Abortion Solution for Both Sides

March 18, 2026 12:00 pmMarch 18, 2026 9:50 am

The hotly contested, forever-argument about abortion offers a pregnant woman 2 simple options. You get one . . . or you don’t. But those traditional choices are also simplistic and misleading. They ignore the complexities on both sides of this issue. They ignore the underlying reason why the abortion argument...

OPINION: A Kafir’s* First Visit to His Community’s Mosque *non-Muslim

March 9, 2026 3:55 pm

Seeking a local snapshot of the growing Muslim influx and impact in America, I recently made my first-ever mosque visit. I attended a Friday (holy day) worship service at the mosque located in my hometown of Reno. A 2024 Brookings Institution poll showed that 52% of Americans hold unfavorable views...

4 Biggest Campaign Issues. 4 Bold, Immediate Solutions. Needed: Courageous Candidates to Implement Them.

January 28, 2026 6:00 amFebruary 9, 2026 5:40 am

Consider the dozens of challengers and incumbents running for elected offices state-wide. What do your favored candidates really know – or care about Nevada’s 4 most important issues and how to solve them? Almost nothing, in most cases. If it were not so, candidates would be speaking constantly about these issues and how...

OPINION: County Schools and DA: Protecting Students from Vandalism But Not Guns?

January 14, 2026 9:53 pmJanuary 15, 2026 8:07 am

What degree of safety do Washoe County Schools provide their students? An answer can be found in one thing that happened this week in a County Court . . . and in one thing that did not. One Thing That Happened A group of Reno High School students were sentenced...

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