The following are highlights from the April 11, 2022, Sparks City Council Meeting. Announcements/ Presentations Council proclaimed: April 10-16 as “National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week” to acknowledge and thank the Emergency Communications supervisors and dispatchers for being the first contact for a person in crisis. These highly trained employees work … [Read more...]
Sparks Art Walk returns April 21
Now that we’re heading into nicer weather, the City of Sparks is relaunching its Sparks Art Walk with its first 2022 event to be held April 21 from 5pm-7pm in Victorian Square. During this time, an artist reception will be held in the Depot Gallery (831 Victorian Avenue) with artists Kirsten Mashinter and Turburam Sandagdor. Sandagdor’s exhibit is called the Galaxy of … [Read more...]
April 13, 2022
Dear Abby: Gay man wishes he had straight male friends
DEAR ABBY: I am a 47-year-old gay man. I’m well-educated, but there’s something I can’t figure out. Why do straight guys NOT want to be friends? I never hit on them, I enjoy a lot of the same pastimes like games, working on cars, etc. I want to be transparent, but when I tell them upfront, they disappear. Sometimes it gets back to me that they thought I was asking them on a … [Read more...]
Frederick Column: New thinking required on American gun violence
Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive The shootout in downtown Sacramento that left six dead and scores wounded once again underlines the irrefutable fact that one-trick-pony progressives who blame guns first for everything do not have a common-sense answer to American violence. Look, with each episode over the years of mass violence, legislators have enacted … [Read more...]
April 6, 2022
Sherman Commentary: Words get in the way for our untethered president
There’s a garden-variety gaff and then there’s a worldclass blunder. Addressing a crowd in Reno and telling them that it’s good to be in Bakersfield is a gaff. Calling for regime change in a nuclear-armed Russia in front of an enthusiastic NATO crowd is a blunder. Unforced mistakes of substantial consequence have become a trademark for President Joe Biden. As a … [Read more...]
Memorial to fallen Navy crew members rededicated
Antisubmarine helicopter crashed west of Sand Mountain in 1978 By Steve RansonNevada News Group On a cool, early spring day east of Fallon, a Navy helicopter hovered over the barren desert conducting a routine combat search and rescue exercise. According to the National Weather Service records, the temperature hovered slightly above 50 degrees with overcast skies … [Read more...]