Storey County Candidate Forum Held In Virginia City Pipers Opera House hosted the first Storey County Candidate Forum of the 2018 political season in Virginia City. The rainy weather did not discourage county residents from showing up in force to hear the candidates discuss their platforms. Over a hundred people …
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Tesla – The Miracle In Storey County It has been nearly five years since Governor Sandoval and the Nevada Legislature saddled The Miracle In Storey County, aka Tesla up onto the backs of the Storey County Taxpayer. With the news of the Tesla deal reaching all four corners of the …
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Storey County Commission Meeting, May 15th Pat Whitten’s PR team tells the Team Storey story about the Commissioner Meeting in perfunctory (non)detail. Thankfully, Nicole Barde penned a predictably in-depth and detailed account (with context) of the recent County Commissioners meeting. While I find the budget quite interesting, the cure for …
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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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Truth, Lies, and Consequences. In the most recent episode of the Comstock Chronicle, Marshall McBride is quoted asking for concerned citizens to call the Commissioners and other County Officials regarding concerns they may have. He accused me and Nicole Barde of being purveyors of misinformation and lies. He reasoned …
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May 1 Commissioner Meeting Review from bardeblog.com Nicole Barde continues her yeoman work having endured another Storey County Commissioner meeting and filing another insightful report. In her article she highlights, among other things, the remarkable disconnect that is the information loop here in Storey County; that of informational osmosis; you …
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In our last article, we discussed the fact that 2017 sales tax revenues fell despite our taxable sales increasing 585% to $1.6 billion dollars (you can read that article here). In this article, we will inspect the 2019 Storey County budget preview to see what the income and expense projections …
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Tesla and TRIC – The Story Behind The Numbers, Part 1 Storey County made news last year when the Nevada Department of Taxation (NDT) released their figures for the Fiscal Year 2016-2017. Around the state, people took notice of the remarkable increase in taxable sales in Storey County. Thanks to …
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$2,682,046.31 of Your Tax Dollars hard(ly) at work in Storey County in 2107 The Tax Foundation began tracking Tax Freedom Day in 1948. Tax Freedom Day is the day that the nation as a whole pays all the taxes to all the Federal, State and Local agencies they need for …
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Meatloaf McGuffey Hard At Work Creating Controversy In the March 9th episode of the Comstock Comical, Jack “Not As Good As Meatloaf” McGuffey is pictured signing his paperwork for re-election as Storey County Commissioner. The Article discusses things that McGuffey considers accomplishments made during his tenure as “the hardest working …
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