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Are Voters Electing Leaders — or Well-Marketed Brands?

A reader sent us a screenshot involving Troy Regas and it raised a bigger question that deserves discussion — not just about one candidate or one race, but about modern local politics itself. What chance do true first-time candidates really have anymore? Most newcomers running for local office do

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FIRESTORM POLITICS — ACCIDENT OR STRATEGY?

Is Troy Regas a renegade… or a marketing genius? Because what happened yesterday doesn’t look accidental. While announcing his first major fundraiser against Mariluz Garcia — often seen in the same orbit as Devon Reese and his loyal following — Regas didn’t just launch a campaign. He lit a match.

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Host Committees, Quiet Signals, and Who Gets the Nod

So let’s get this straight. Mariluz Garcia hosts a fundraiser… and sitting on the host committee is Tom Clark—the same Tom Clark running Kate Marshall’s mayoral campaign. That’s not overlap. That’s alignment. And in a town like Reno, those kinds of alignments don’t happen by accident. They happe

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The Rebel With a Sign …

It slipped past the daily write-up schedule, but the social media moment surrounding Troy Regas may end up being more telling than a formal campaign announcement. Instead of a polished press release or scripted video, Regas posted something far simpler: a photo of campaign sign designs — created by

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A Safe Place to Park — But at What Cost?

Washoe County has launched a new pilot program allowing people living in their cars a place to park overnight at the Our Place campus in Sparks, billed as a compassionate response to homelessness. The program offers six first-come, first-served parking spaces through May 15, along with access to sho

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Reading the Tea Leaves in District 3: Enter Troy Regas

If you listen closely — and sometimes all it takes is one podcast — you can hear the unmistakable sound of a campaign quietly warming up. It certainly looks like Troy Regas is preparing a run for Washoe County Commission District 3 , and if that’s the case, incumbent Mariluz Garcia may be facing

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