When she was good, It was oh, so good You were blessed If she smiled on you. You could be king If she believed your story. When it was over, If she laughed at you.* Half a century ago this week, a young Italian from Fresno by way of Las Vegas drove his freshly-painted canary yellow Buick Riviera eastward on I-80 through Sparks past the Nugget toward … [Read more...]
Some Washoe County students return to class on hybrid schedule
By Kayla Anderson Sparks Tribune At its last Washoe County School District Board of Trustees meeting, WCSD elected officials voted to allow secondary/middle and high school students to return to a hybrid learning model beginning January 19. Following its recent approval, WCSD Superintendent Dr. Kristen McNeill said in a January 15 media briefing, “Students are anxious to … [Read more...]
Vaccines given to some frontline workers in Sparks
By Kayla Anderson Sparks Tribune Last Tuesday, January 12, the Washoe County Regional Information Center released a statement following Governor Steve Sisolak’s recent guidance about the COVID-19 vaccine distribution. As of late, the state will be moving away from its current tier-based structure designating which groups of Nevadans are in line to receive the vaccine, … [Read more...]
Nevada agencies partner with county to expand ‘Our Place Homeless Project’ in Sparks
By Kayla Anderson Sparks Tribune On January 12, the Nevada Board of Examiners approved a lease agreement for the “Our Place Homeless Project” which is a collaboration between the Nevada Division of State Lands, Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, the State of Nevada, and Washoe County for a new campus being constructed in Sparks. To support this … [Read more...]
Sherman R. Frederick Commentary: Everyone Has A Plan Until …
How has President Joe Biden and his promised super-competent COVID-19 team doing after it’s first two weeks on the job? Well, sadly, the new boss’s performance is largely indistinguishable from the old boss’s performance. Why the slow start? A Biden vaccine insider put it succinctly. He quoted Nevada’s wise philosopher Mike Tyson: “Everyone has a plan until they get … [Read more...]
If rural Nevada were its own country
If rural Nevada were its own country, we’d be one of the safest places on Earth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some on point numbers: Esmeralda County - 0 deaths. Eureka County - 0 deaths. Lincoln County - 1 death. White Pine County - 4 deaths. Mineral County - 4 deaths. When we get around to seriously discussing Gov. Steve Sisolak’s response to the … [Read more...]
Andrew Barbano Commentary: JOE NEAL – you can’t run from the truth
I knew what it was before I even opened the e-mail. I stomped the floor, cursing and swearing every damnation in the dictionary before I even sat down. I didn’t even know that he had been ill but I knew Joe was dead. The three e-mails from Sen. Dina Neal all carried the same subject line: “My Dad.” I knew what it meant. Thus ended a very quiet New Year’s Eve. … [Read more...]
Harry Spencer Commentary: The VIII Olympic Winter Games
It’s surprising how the discovery of an inanimate object from decades ago can trigger a flood of memories. Such was the case when I recently came across a pristine copy of the official program of the 1960 Winter Olympics that were held in nearby Squaw Valley, California. My chief interest in that long-ago Olympics was due to the fact that I was … [Read more...]