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18 articles filed under Washoe County Human Services Agency
Apparently the hottest tourism gig in Washoe County is no longer Lake Tahoe, Burning Man, or the casinos. It is giving VIP tours of the Nevada Cares Campus. Former Reno “thinking about it” mayoral and realtor Pat Cashell has reportedly been retained by Kate Thomas to escort specially selected VIP
Read the articleVagrants or Homeless? Paul White Asks the Question Washoe County Won’t … At Monday’s CHAB meeting in Washoe County, Paul White presented his vision for taking over the Nevada Cares Campus with a coalition of churches and faith-based organizations. Some of his ideas had merit. Some raised eyebrows
Read the articleHey Phil Tenneson — you might want to take a closer look at what’s unfolding here. Because if what we’re hearing is true, this isn’t just questionable judgment — it may rise to the level of not only state ethics violations you are stating are needed but this might require a Department of Justice
Read the articleWell, it’s making the rounds again—another shining example of how the Washoe County Human Services Agency defines “care.” Washoe County Human Services Agency runs the Sparks Senior Center, or they pretend to, because the services they offer are sort of lacking, and apparently when there is a medica
Read the articleThree individuals who have worked for the Karma Box Project have been arrested since November 2025. That alone should raise serious questions about oversight and accountability. At the same time, rumors continue to swirl that Karma Box Project has been replaced at the county’s Safe Camp by either R
Read the articleIf Chief Judge Egan Walker keeps this up, we may need to start reserving him a permanent headline slot. Word around the courthouse is that Walker has reassigned — or as some are calling it, “hijacked” — a case originally sitting in Department 10 under Judge Kathleen Sigurdson. The case involves t
Read the articleCommissioner Mike Clark posted the recently released Washoe County annual summary of deaths connected to the emergency shelter campuses, and while the document checked every administrative box — dates, locations, causes, protocols followed — it missed something far more important: humanity. Seven p
Read the articleWe noticed something interesting (and a little weird) about the Washoe County Human Services Senior Breakfast on Friday, December 19 at the 9th Street Senior Center: There are n o photos online of the event — absolutely none we could find, until today.
Read the articleSomething strange is happening at the Washoe County Senior Advisory Board — and seniors deserve to know exactly what’s going on. At the October 8, 2025 meeting, the board discussed moving current District 5 representative Pam Roberts into the suddenly vacant District 1 seat. On paper, that looks li
Read the articleWashoe County seems to have cracked the code on “senior engagement.” Spoiler alert: it’s called volunteerism. Yep — somewhere in the Human Services Division, someone must have decided that seniors don’t need fun, stimulation, or community. Nope. What they really need is to stuff envelopes, run erra
Read the articleRarely does anyone send Picon a press release — let’s face it, Washoe County, the City of Reno, and the City of Sparks treat us like that one relative they hope skips Thanksgiving. But every now and then, something shiny lands in our inbox, and a few weeks ago it was from the U.S. Forest Servic e a
Read the articleIt looks like the story of Dana Searcy’s quiet exit from Washoe County isn’t quite the tidy “career transition” narrative the county would like you to believe. Searcy, who served as Division Director for Housing and Homeless Services and ran the Nevada Cares Campus, reportedly went missing in act
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