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So, Sparks Mayor Ed Lawson... Where do we even start? This guy's mayoral skills are about as impressive as a participation trophy. It'd be funny if it wasn't so frustrating for Sparks residents who barely voted him in back in 2022. You'd think scraping by would make him step up his game, but nah – h
Read the articleAt first look, the video shows Sparks city officials awkwardly dancing — if clapping and jerky movements performed out of synch can pass for dancing — to celebrate the Fourth of July. Clearly, these bureaucrats can’t follow a beat. In fact, the beat eludes them entirely. It has fled in terror.
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 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 articleWho else watched the City of Sparks Council meeting on Monday, June 24, 2024? Okay, like almost no one, according to YouTube there we 97 views
Read the articleIn a twist of political intrigue, Sparks City Councilmember Kristopher Dahir finds himself with a brewing controversy that exposes potential double standards in local government's approach to controversial groups.
Read the articleIf it isn't the bumbling buffalo herd of Sparks City Councilmen preening and pawing at new lows of small-town campaign shenanigans. This sordid video exposition lays bare the cringeworthy politics we've come to expect from Mayor Lawson’s coterie of credibility-bereft male council members.
Read the articleCouncilman Kristopher Dahir seems to be reduced to wince-inducingly juvenile lows in his desperation against challenger Washoe County School Board Trustee Joe Rodriguez.
Read the articleOur inbox was flooded with copies of Sparks City Councilmember Ward 5 Kristopher Dahir's campaign mailer, raising suspicions that the Regional Transportation Commission bankrolled this bad boy. While we're sure they kept their hands clean, the mailer reads more like a RTC infomercial than a council
Read the articleCouncilman Donald Abbott reminds everyone and anyone within listening distance he was the youngest person ever elected to the Sparks City Council. Who do we blame for that, you the voter, who seem to have been sold a bill of goods by “The Donald.”
Read the articleMonday, May 13, 2024, will be the first Community Homeless Advisory Board Meeting since September 11, 2023. When we were sent these photos from a Nevada Wins Pac Gala $500 per seat dinner, with the keynote speaker being none other than Congressman Mark Amodei we were struct with the idea of homeless
Read the articlePicon realizes we are going to get slapped around the block for this question, but the candidate and his family has opened the gate on our path of inquiry. Ultimately, it is the job of the media to ask uncomfortable questions about medical issues of political candidates in order to uphold the princi
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