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The City of Reno apparently has a new message for residents: Thank you for paying your city fees — now pay extra to pay them. Residents handling city bills online or by card are increasingly frustrated over service fees attached to credit card and debit card payments. Want to pay your sewer bill,
Read the articleRemember 2016? When Washoe County voters were told schools were literally crumbling around our children and the only thing standing between students and structural collapse was a sales tax hike wrapped in a shiny PR campaign called “Save Our Schools.” What voters weren’t told: – Enrollment was alre
Read the articleAs local governments scramble to patch their leaking financial ships—with Washoe County, Sparks, and Reno all millions in the red—they've settled on the usual solution: deeper dives into taxpayer pockets. Increased fees, passed on charges, some say, sales tax hikes are circling the drain, and "
Read the articleRemember when Alexis Hill swore up and down during her 2024 campaign that she wouldn't raise taxes? That promise had a shorter shelf life than milk left in the sun. Hill spent three years, 2022, 2023, and 2024, playing political dodgeball with fire regionalization, we now know why - she was waiti
Read the articleAt Washoe County’s Strategic Planning meeting yesterday, the performance of "How to Forget Your Campaign Promises," Commissioner Alexis Hill masterfully demonstrated the art of political pivoting. Remember that earnest candidate who swore to District 1 voters she wouldn't be "the comm
Read the articleThe Reno City Council will vote on Wednesday to add an additional Storm Drain Fee. This is triple taxation. Residents already pay for Storm Drain through the Capitalization Fund which is nearly one-third of the Sewer Bill. Everyone in Washoe County is paying one-half of 1/8% of sales tax to Flood Ma
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