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Associated Press FERNLEY — The second-largest commercial land sale in state history is expected to bring thousands of new jobs to a northern Nevada industrial park covering nearly 7 square miles (18 square kilometers) about 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of Reno. A California-based real estate firm, Mark IV Capital, outlined details this week of […]
New Northern Nevada Industrial Park Could Produce 10k Jobs
House $15 Minimum Wage Bill Would Kill Jobs
The House this past week passed a bill that would increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 and phase out the sub-minimum wage currently allowed for tip earners. The vote was 231-199, largely along party lines. While all three of Nevada’s Democratic representatives put out statements bragging about voting for the […]
Moving BLM HQ Out West is a Welcome Change
The Interior Department this past week announced that it is moving the headquarters of its Bureau of Land Management (BLM) division out of Washington, D.C., and west to Grand Junction, Colo., as well as moving a number of senior management staffers into 11 Western states, including 50 to Nevada, according to The Associated Press. While […]
A Maternal Health Crisis in Our Rural Communities
By Senator Catherine Cortez Masto America is the only developed country in the world where maternal mortality has increased in recent decades. Almost two American women die each day from pregnancy-related complications, according to the CDC, and more than 50,000 every year suffer life-threatening complications like heavy bleeding or heart attacks. But the maternal health […]
July 18, 2019
Nevada Dorm Rocked by Gas Blast Looks like Earthquake Scene
Argenta Hall not Expected to Re-Open Until Fall of 2021 By Scott Sonner Associated Press RENO — The first look at the damage inside provided to local media since a natural gas explosion blew out walls and windows at a University of Nevada, Reno dormitory last week reaffirmed earlier descriptions from school officials who likened […]
BLM Removes 804 Horses During Latest Public Land Gather
The Bureau of Land Management has concluded a wild horse gather near Ely, Nevada. This joint operation by BLM’s Elko District (Wells Field Office) and Ely District (Bristlecone Field Office), was conducted at the Triple B Complex in eastern Nevada. The BLM gathered and removed 804 excess wild horses from public lands. Approximately 2,577 wild […]
Government and Local Officials Comment on ‘Storm Area 51’ Prank
As has been reported so heavily on social media the past week or so and featured on national TV news, more than a million people have signed up to gather in the wee hours of the morning Sept. 20 close to Area 51 to storm the facility to reveal any aliens and/or extraterrestrial treasures believed […]
Is This You? Double Duper.
I’ve been duped. Actually I have been double duped. I am a double duped duper. That is not a super-duper thing to be. At first thought you might think I was duped while buying consumables with all the shenanigans going on with sizes and weights and money and costs and profits. You would be right. […]
50th Anniversary of the First Moon Landing this Week
Do you recall where you were when Apollo 11 landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong took that historic step? Maybe you do, or then again, maybe you weren’t even born yet. But it was most definitely the end of an age-old dream; science fiction comes true. And July 20 will mark the 50th anniversary […]