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Tesla To Lay Off 693 Workers at Sparks GigaFactory

April 29, 2024 12:04 pmApril 29, 2024 12:05 pm

According to a report from the Nevada Department of Education, Training and Rehabilitation (DETR), Tesla will lay off 693 workers at its gigafactory in Sparks effective June 14. The notice came as a part of the U.S. Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which requires companies of more than...

License to Burn: Wildfire as the Ultimate Public-Private Partnership (Part Two)

April 29, 2024 10:50 amSeptember 10, 2024 4:02 pm

The following is Part Two of “License to Burn.” Part One of the series can be found here. Part Three can be found here. On the night of August 14, 2021—exactly 365 days after the announced Fire Stewardship MOU—a small fire flared up a few miles from Grizzly Flats—a simple...

Editorial: Hate Speech Takes A Back Seat To The First Amendment

April 28, 2024 5:22 pmApril 29, 2024 10:50 am

“The big problem for proponents of hate-speech laws and codes is that they can never explain where to draw a stable and consistent line between hate speech and vigorous criticism, or who exactly can be trusted to draw it. The reason is that there is no such line.” Jonathan Rauch...

‘Free Palestine’ Protest Scheduled at UNR

April 25, 2024 3:32 pmApril 26, 2024 3:04 pm

The Globe received an invitation for a “Free Palestine” protest scheduled at University of Nevada Reno this Friday evening. (see below) The student-led protest links to numerous organization and petitions who advocate for the boycotting, defunding and sanctioning (BDS) of Israel. According to the a Jerusalem Post article from 2014:...

OPINION: Artificial Intelligence Can Help Nevada’s Government Be More Effective

April 24, 2024 12:50 pmApril 25, 2024 8:20 am

As artificial intelligence increases its utility in our everyday lives, thought leaders are having critical conversations on how to best use the tech to advance our society, local governance, and national economy. While the private sector has already found many practical applications for the technology, such as in the healthcare...

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

April 23, 2024 3:21 pmApril 24, 2024 12:50 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...

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...