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Back on July 29, 2024, the Reno City Charter Committee met with the Reno City Council with their final report and recommendations. The focus of the meeting was a report from the City Charter Committee and what to do with those pesky 2025 Bill Draft Requests to be put forth by the Reno City Council.
Read the articleMarsy's quest began when she dared to dream the impossible dream: running for office without being part of the good ol' boys club. Little did she know she was about to embark on a journey more twisted seniors arthritis-addled fingers.
Read the articleIt’s not stolen valor, not exactly, but there is still something uncomfortable and objectionable about Kristopher Dahir using his position as a board member of Nevada Veterans Memorial Plaza to boost his re-election campaign to the Sparks City Council.
Read the articleMarie Baxter, Chief Executive Officer of Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada was on KOLOTV with Rebecca Kitchen, Wednesday, July 31, 2024, talking about their need for volunteers to serve food at the Nevada Cares Campus to the homeless.
Read the articlePicon sometimes is shocked by what City of Reno, City of Sparks, and Washoe County Government employees are called upon to do and we question why they do it.
Read the articleNot at the City of Reno where there is almost no disclosure. Oh sure, at all the meetings often one of the councilmembers or mayor reads a disclosure statement, but we’ve had a difficult time remembering individuals not voting on an item because of a disclosed conflict.
Read the articleItem E.1 RSCVA Election of Board Chair The RSCVA Chair has to be one of the elected officials on the board, and it isn’t Councilmember Charlene Bybee any longer.
Read the articlePicon is clearly confused, but that would be nothing new. We received an email forwarded by Commissioner Mike Clark yesterday regarding the decision by the Washoe County WVC Workplace Violence Committee to cease hosting PRIDE events at the Washoe County Libraries.
Read the articleIt takes a lot to bring Picon down, but as we penned this story we were struck by sadness and question what is happening to our elections in Washoe County, Nevada.
Read the articleIn Sparks, the city council's latest performance was less about civic duty and more about damage control. On Monday, July 22, 2024, Mayor Lawson played agenda Jenga, removing key items faster than a magician's sleight of hand, one has to wonder: Is this transparency or just making things convenientl
Read the articleAlexis Hill doesn’t care about free speech, and over the last year she’s proven it monthly with her gavel, however no more so than this last month with the dustup over $10,000 and an alleged swastika. The people Hill decided to chastise have now turned against her and are supporting her opponent. Is
Read the articleIn a developing story that raises serious questions about the security and reliability of Nevada's voting systems, concerns are mounting following a reported outage of Dominion Voting Systems' early voting machines in Maricopa County, Arizona due to the global CrowdStrike outage. This incident casts
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