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Bipartisan Opposition Fails to Deliver, USPS Announces Move Of Reno Mail Processing To California

April 23, 2024 3:21 pmApril 23, 2024 3:32 pm

This article has been edited to include public comments from Senator Jacky Rosen Despite bipartisan opposition, the United States Postal Service (USPS) announced they are transferring Reno’s outgoing mail processing to Sacramento, CA. The Reno processing center will reportedly be modernized as a Local Processing Center (LPC) and will undergo...

Brightline West Breaks Ground on HighSpeed Rail Between CA And NV

April 23, 2024 12:01 pm

On Earth day, a group of bipartisan officials attended a ground breaking ceremony for Brightline West, the first high speed rail system in the United States that will connect Southern California to Las Vegas, Nevada. Nevada’s Democratic congressional delegation and Republican Governor Joe Lombardo welcomed Department of Transportation Secretary Pete...

Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Against Carson City School District

April 23, 2024 10:48 amApril 23, 2024 3:21 pm

Attorneys Sigal Chattah and Joey Gilbert have filed a civil rights lawsuit (see below) against Carson City School District alleging the constitutional rights of a student (John Doe) were violated during an improper seizure through corporal punishment which “resulted in humiliation and destruction of Doe’s life and academic career.” The...

License To Burn: Wildfire As the Ultimate Private-Public Partnership

April 22, 2024 11:42 amApril 23, 2024 11:09 am

This is Part One of a three-part series. With increasingly intense wildfires over recent years, we in the West are expected to embrace the new wildfire normal, as if it’s normal to have multiple catastrophic fires in any given fire season. Running for your life from burning houses because of...

Undocumented Couple Held on $1M Bail for Massive Mail Theft In Rural NV

April 19, 2024 2:12 pmApril 22, 2024 11:42 am

An undocumented couple, who were deported in 2019, have found their way back into the country entering Northern Nevada from California. During their travels in Reno, Carson County, Douglas County, Lyon County, Storey County and Washoe County, they were pulled over for speeding and then arrested and charged with multiple...

OPINION: Sen Rosen Continues to Play Political Games With Our Southern Border

April 19, 2024 12:47 pmApril 19, 2024 2:13 pm

Sadly, but unsurprisingly, Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen has remained mostly silent as the Senate dismisses the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas. In February, Mayorkas became the first cabinet secretary to be impeached since 1876 when it was discovered that he purposefully and strategically refused to...

Washoe County Library Board Rejects Book Challenge Appeals

April 19, 2024 9:40 amApril 19, 2024 9:41 am

During a meeting of the Washoe County Library Board on Wednesday, trustees voted to reject the appeals of five members of the public who had challenged eight books within the library system’s collection—opting instead to maintain Board Director Jeff Scott’s initial decision to deny their book challenges. The failure of...