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Picon learned something fascinating during Tuesday’s Washoe County School Board meeting. Apparently, serving as a school board trustee comes with something many teachers, support staff, and taxpayers might find surprising: excellent health insurance. During the meeting, Trustee Beth Smith discusse
Read the articleWe don’t often find ourselves applauding attorney Jason Guinasso, but when someone is right, they are right. Guinasso raises a serious question about trust, transparency, and whether the Washoe County School District is honoring the promise it made to voters in 2018 regarding WC-1. Back in 2016,
Read the articleGood grief — the Republicans of Washoe County are at it again. It’s 2026, the primaries are warming up, and apparently, the bench is so shallow you can see the bottom. We’d hoped for new faces, new voices, maybe even new ideas. Instead, the Washoe County Republican Party is serving reheated leftove
Read the articleIn 2022, Colleen Westlake was a full-fledged Robert Beadles disciple — speaking at Boomtown’s “Freedom Fridays” as only the inner-circle got to do, railing against Democrats at King Buffet Conservative Talk luncheons, and vowing to clean up schools by getting rid of ‘certain’ books and ending coed b
Read the articleThe Washoe County School Board Strikes Again At this point, asking the Washoe County School Board to “protect and serve” students might be too ambitious. Most of them seem far more focused on climbing the political ladder than on keeping kids in classrooms that actually mean something to this commu
Read the articleAdam Mayberry wants you to know one thing: he’s not a career politician. At least, that’s the story he’s sticking to as he gears up for another run — this time in one of Washoe County’s reddest corners.
Read the articleIf you happened to stroll through Caughlin Ranch tomorrow and catch a “Concerts on the Green” show, you may have noticed a curious name among the sponsors: Beth Smith, Washoe County School Board Trustee. Now why, exactly, would a school board truste e be sponsoring a concert in an upscale neighbor
Read the articleWe were going to pen an article about the need for Alex Woodley to step aside (AKA resign) from his Washoe County Library Trustee District E, but This Is Reno did such a great job we thought we’d just share their newsletter for subscribers. (You should become a subscriber so you too could have the T
Read the articleScott Kelly went through a nasty divorce. This Is Reno went into great detail regarding his divorce, fake Facebook account, a GPS tracker on his Kelly’s ex-wife’s car, and an extramarital relationship with a stripper, along with other allegations, all not a good look for a Washoe County School Distr
Read the articleOur Town Reno asked a question last week and that was can Frank Perez win the City of Reno Ward 1 City Council race. Picon thinks there is a more important question to be asked, and that is “does Frank Perez really want to win” or was he the “buffer” candidate that stopped Lily Baran from getting el
Read the articleThe EDAWN saga surrounding an ask for influence with a local councilwoman gains attention…
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