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Online ‘Inappropriate’ Comments Against Biden Warrant Secret Service Visit To Incline Village Resident

August 20, 2023 5:01 pmAugust 25, 2023 3:29 pm

Friday night, The Globe learned from Incline Village residents that Secret Service/federal agents paid a visit to their homes in search of a suspect who reportedly made threats against President Biden during his extended family vacation in Lake Tahoe. https://twitter.com/NevadaGlobe/status/1692727371558699253?s=20 On Saturday morning, The Globe confirmed the reports with Washoe...

Commissioner Alexis Hill Proposes User Tax on Tahoe Basin Drivers

July 25, 2023 1:48 pmAugust 1, 2023 12:35 pm

What happens when federal and local government agencies build a billion dollar, concrete tourist attraction in North Lake Tahoe, without adequate parking, and that hugs a narrow, two-lane highway? If you guessed traffic congestion, you must have been graced with a little common sense–or, you’re unfortunate enough to have been...

Douglas County School Board Fires Legal Counsel, Hires Joey Gilbert

July 20, 2023 11:58 amJuly 27, 2023 3:01 pm

*This article has been updated with Attorney Joey Gilbert’s comment to The Globe After 6 1/2 hour meeting yesterday morning, dominated by public comment, the Douglas County School Board voted 4-2 to hire former GOP candidate for Governor, Attorney Joey Gilbert as their new counsel, replacing Maupin, Cox & Legoy...

Douglas County School Board Expected to Fire Legal Counsel, Retain Joey Gilbert

July 13, 2023 12:36 pmJuly 13, 2023 12:37 pm

The Globe has been chronicling the tea brewing in Douglas County which includes the newly elected school Board of Trustees, the Nevada ACLU, and the parents and students of a rural county school district. As we reported, fireworks came early in Douglas County when the appointed Superintendent Keith Lewis published...

NV Dems Amend Bill To Prohibit School Board Effort To Protect Girls Sports And Private Spaces

May 23, 2023 8:12 pmMay 29, 2023 10:24 am

In a last minute, late night amendment, Nevada Senate Democrats amended Assembly Bill 423 to specifically prohibit elected school board officials from adopting certain policies for their respective districts. The timing of this amendment is an unlikely coincidence due to the controversy surrounding the Douglas County School District’s Board of Trustees’ attempt...

EXCLUSIVE: DCSD Board President Questions Motivations Of Superintendent

May 19, 2023 5:24 pmMay 22, 2023 8:35 am

Douglas County School District Board President Susan Jansen contacted The Globe after a long and contentious school board meeting on May 16th and in response to numerous headlines which have created a false narrative regarding the Trustees’ efforts to protect girls’ sports and private spaces. This afternoon, President Jansen told...

DCSB President Speaks Out in Defense of Girls Sports And Private Spaces

May 15, 2023 2:14 pmMay 19, 2023 4:12 pm

Last week, we broke the story that that ACLU NV threatened the Douglas County School District with litigation if the Board of Trustees adopt a “transgender student policy” that protect sports, locker rooms, and bathrooms from biological men who identify as females or biological women who identify as males. The ACLU NV...