Are We Done Yet? Nicole Barde posted a piece yesterday asking the question: “When Do We End This?”. In it, she referred to letters that Commissioner Carmona and McBride wrote to Governor Sisolak begging to reopen Virginia City. Click here or read her piece below. Elon “The Saviour of the …
Read More »Tesla Finally Stops Work at the Gigafactory – Too Little Too Late?
Has Storey County Done Everything Possible To Protect The Public During the COVID-19 Pandemic? As the nation is caught in the stranglehold of the COVID-19 virus, much is being said about the way America is handling the crisis. With a couple of glaring exceptions, Storey County businesses reacted immediately and …
Read More »Tesla Surges to $92b+ Market Cap But Won’t Pay Storey County Peanuts for Police and Fire Obligations
Tesla surges on Wall Street. Meanwhile on Electric Avenue, Tesla taps county resources. Tesla’s market capitalization is now in excess of $92 billion in 2015 Tesla and Storey County entered into a services agreement to help offset the massive burden the Gigafactory places on County services with tax abatements (original …
Read More »Is The Blockchains Smart City At TRIC A Done Deal?
White Collar Welfare Recipients Hunting For Handouts At The Storey County Courthouse Barring an alien abduction of Commissioner Jack McGuffey or Marshall McBride, The Storey County Commissioners will hand over $20 million in future Storey County tax revenue to billion dollar global companies at TRIC by forming a Tax Increment …
Read More »Blockchains Announces Smart City at TRIC
Blockchains CEO Jeffrey Burns announced plans for a 10,000 home “Smart City” at TRIC yesterday. Burns, speaking at a technology conference in Prague, told the excited crowd that he was creating the first connected Smart City built on the backbone of Blockchain technology. When the teller first got wind of …
Read More »Will The Gigafactory Go Up In Smoke?
Storey County’s Diamond Getting Roughed Up I reached out to media pundit Josh Bernstein the other day and we talked about Elon Musk, Tesla and the Gigafactory. He’s done some reporting on Tesla and Elon Musk this year and he agreed to share his latest article with The Teller. Storey …
Read More »The Weekly TWIT – This Week In Tesla July 14th
The Weekly TWIT – This Week In Tesla July 14th Another interesting week for Tesla is in the books, and Elon Musk didn’t disappoint the folks watching him make news. From hell in Fremont to caves in Thailand to Chinese Gigafantasies to the Flint water savior, Elon was hopping the …
Read More »This Week In Tesla – The Weekly TWIT
Welcome to This Week In Tesla With so much here in Storey County riding on the Auto Manufacturer, I think it is important to keep tabs on how the biggest employer in Storey County is doing. So we present the weekly TWIT – This week in Tesla. Tesla Began the …
Read More »Storey County FY18-19 Budget Nearing Completion
Storey County FY18-19 Budget It’s Budget Season and we have been focusing on how Storey County spends your tax dollars. We wrote about the tentative budget earlier here. We wrote about the record 1.6 billion in taxable sales from 2017 here. And finally, we wrote about the current taxable sales …
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