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If you have an hour to spare, I encourage you to watch Item 10 from the July 2026 Northern Nevada Public Health Board of Health meeting . Pay particular attention to how Reno Councilmember Devon Reese interacts with his fellow elected officials. I came away wondering why Reese seems to believe
Read the articleOh, we do enjoy Sparks Mayor Ed Lawson. As he seeks reelection, he's spending a healthy amount of campaign contributions on television commercials reminding everyone how much he has done for the City of Sparks. The ads tell viewers about the accomplishments. The ads tell viewers about the progress
Read the articleFor a guy campaigning on “relationships,” Sparks Mayor Ed Lawson sure has a trail of fractured ones behind him. Lawson’s reelection ads proudly tell voters he has the connections and relationships needed to lead the City of Sparks. And perhaps he does. Just look at the endorsement lists filled with
Read the articleWe don’t often find ourselves applauding attorney Jason Guinasso, but when someone is right, they are right. Guinasso raises a serious question about trust, transparency, and whether the Washoe County School District is honoring the promise it made to voters in 2018 regarding WC-1. Back in 2016,
Read the articlePicon is scratching its collective head over next week’s Reno City Council vote on increasing Waste Management’s franchise fee. Let’s be honest — at this stage most observers consider the fee increase a foregone conclusion. The logistics alone of transitioning an entire city’s waste system to a new
Read the articlePicon was out in the field yesterday following up on a Gregg Kidd story and missed the Sparks City Council meeting. That turned out to be unfortunate timing—because we almost missed what may be one of the most telling moments of the meeting, delivered casually by none other than Mayor Ed Lawson hims
Read the articleThe Mayor of Sparks, Ed Lawson, took to social media to grandly proclaim that he doesn’t read us. And honestly? What a relie f. We’d hate for him to trip over the articles about his greatest hits—like his dream of a toll road, or the time he championed the Lands Bill while paying his buddies to lob
Read the articleMore than a year has passed since the Community Homelessness Advisory Board (CHAB) last met — the very board tasked with overseeing Washoe County’s most pressing humanitarian crisis. Chaired by Commissioner Alexis Hill , CHAB has gone silent while encampments spread and frustration grows. At the m
Read the articleLooks like Sparks Councilmember Paul Anderson is standing by her man. While she’s not addressing the growing chatter about the Washoe County Republican Women’s clubs new “reservations only” rules (after years of open-door lunches), there HE was—Paul Anderson—at the podium during the same luncheon.
Read the articleThe City of Sparks has quietly settled the case of firefighter Timothy Egan, accused of assaulting 84-year-old Maureen Hvegholm over the crime of feeding stray cats. The 2022 incident drew statewide outrage—but here we are in 2025, and Egan is still drawing a taxpayer-funded paycheck. So let’s ask
Read the articleThe Reno Gazette-Journal’s Mark Robison recently posted a piece by political analyst Louis Jacobson of the Crystal Ball suggesting Sparks City Attorney Wes Duncan should drop his bid for Washoe County District Attorney and instead run for Nevada Attorney General. Interesting timing—and even more in
Read the articleWe get it. They love to call Picon hack journalism. Politicians and their entourage of pearl-clutching staffers practically salivate at the chance to wag a finger and shout, “biased!” or “irrelevant” - along with a number of PAC’s, political clubs, and organizations. And yet… they can’t stop reading
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