Editors note: There is a fair amount to digest below, so sit back and enjoy the ride. Or you can check out your InstaGram and Facebook memes. First, The Tax Rollback Back Story… The final Commissioners meeting of 2014 was noteworthy for a number of reasons. Bill Sjovangen and Bill …
Read More »Fat Cat Cronyism Alive and Well in Storey County
How do the elite few maintain their control of the cash and the power in Storey County? Fatten the cats at the top of the food chain and keep actual competency from diluting the trough where we keep the Fat Cat food. As we reported here, Storey County plans to …
Read More »Who tops the list of Tax Deadbeats? Sadly, it’s the TRICsters.
In his final essay, French Economist Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) puts forth his notion of “The Seen and the Unseen”. In this essay, he begins by stating: “In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution, a law produces not only one effect, but a series of effects. Of these …
Read More »VCTC Meeting recap – Nicole Barde
SUMMARY OF THE MAY11, 2017 VCTC MEETING 15 May 2017 ALL OF THE NEW HOTELS AT TRI MEANS MONEY, MONEY, MONEY FOR VCTC… BUT A STRATEGY AIMED AT INVOLVING TRI AND ITS EMPLOYEES AND BUSINESS TRAVELERS IN STOREY COUNTY ACTIVITIES STILL NEEDS TO BE DEVELOPED. THE GOLD HILL HOTEL AND RESTAURANT WILL BE HAVING ITS …
Read More »The Judy Black Case – Exploitation Is Not Good
exploitation |ˌekˌsploiˈtāSH(ə)n| noun 1 the action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work: the exploitation of migrant workers. 2 the action of making use of and benefiting from resources: the Bronze Age saw exploitation of gold deposits. 3 the fact of making use of a situation to gain unfair advantage for …
Read More »Mr. Smith (and Mr. Jones) go to Washington. Storey County taxpayers foot the bill.
The Storey County Commissioners and County Manager Pat Whitten sent Commissioner Lance Gilman and County Lobbyist Greg “Bum” Hess to Washington D.C. January 17th – 22nd. The trip to D.C. was authorized so Gilman and Hess could lobby for the zip code bill that died in committee last year. The …
Read More »Recall Antinoro Financial Statements Released – $142,034.65 spent to unseat Sheriff thus far
As required by law, the Committee to Recall Sheriff Gerald Antinoro filed the report of financial contributions and expense report on Monday March 27th. The report can be found online here. The meat of the report is here: The report is interesting in the information it reveals. Contributors of the …
Read More »Long Live The King
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