When your city is drowning in a $25 million deficit, every dollar counts—except, apparently, when it comes to conference travel. Mayor Hillary Schieve jetted off to the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Tampa, Florida, leaving Renoites to wonder about the city's spending priorities. While residents have
Eliminating citizen input while brewing up council coffee klatches at the City of Reno. The City of Reno has discovered a brilliant new approach to public engagement: eliminate it entirely under the guise of fiscal responsibility. The city's moratorium on Neighborhood Advisory Board (NAB) meetings
Congratulations. The City of Reno has unveiled its latest performance art piece: a citizen feedback survey carefully engineered to gather the information the city wants to feature, not what is truly concerning to residents. This City of Reno survey is the municipal equivalent of asking "how a