Last week I donated a couple hundred bucks to the Hayek Group to help them work to improve High School student financial literacy in Northern Nevada while playing golf at Arrow Creek. After the round we had dinner and one of my table-mates told me he was considering moving to …
Read More »October 17 Commissioner Meeting – Nicole Barde
Summary of the October 17th Storey County Commission Meeting IN WHAT CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS AN UNNATURAL ACT OF THE HIGHEST ORDER THE STOREY COUNTY LEADERSHIP WORM HAS TURNED AND IS NOW CONSUMING ITS OWN TAIL. OUR COMMISSIONERS DECLARED IN AN OPEN MEETING THAT THERE HAS BEEN INAPPROPRIATE USE …
Read More »TRIC Executive Shoves Foot in Mouth – The Storey Teller Helps, Part Two
For those of you who read The Teller and do not read the Virginia City Highlands email chat group, this tasty banter happened on Friday the 13th between “Brothel Resident”, TRIC Executive and Storey County Planning Commissioner Kris Thompson. Mr. Thompson once again tasted shoe leather, polished with something other …
Read More »Corporate Welfare Checks to Roll into TRIC – Again
The Governors Office of Economic Development’s (GOED) board meets in mid-November and the agenda contains an item that will consider GOED’s effort to build an effluent pipeline from Sparks to the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center (TRIC). Once built and fully deployed, this pipeline will carry 3.7 million gallons a day of effluent …
Read More »TRIC Executive Shoves Foot in Mouth – The Storey Teller Helps.
Mustang Brothel Resident and TRIC Executive Kris Thompson recently ripped Nicole Barde’s coverage of the September 19th Storey County Commissioners Meeting (which you can read here) as “dishonest”. Ms. Barde is fully capable of defending herself so rather than taking umbrage with Mr. Thompson’s dirty pool with her, I chose …
Read More »Solutions For Storey County
Yesterday I got called out for complaining about Storey County Politics. Ron Fields asked me to quit bellyaching and offer up some solutions. So I did. Mr. Fields, great post. Thank you for the kind words about my writing. I remember being in a meeting with Steve Jobs in the …
Read More »Blatant abuse? – the last grasp for power? – Letter to the Editor
Robert Maccario of the Virginia City Highlands submitted this Letter to the Editor. He suggests that If the Commissioners give TRIC our money to directly improve the profitability of the Park and it’s clients with zero direct benefit and they approve “Item 13” then it’s time to “Recall them All”. …
Read More »VCH “Town Hall” Learns About TRIC Pipeline Proposal
Virginia City Highlands resident Jay Carmona organized a meeting at the Firehouse to learn more about the TRIC Pipeline Proposal that will use county tax revenue to repay over 29 years. The Governers Office of Economic Development is working with Storey County Commissioners, TRIC landowners and TRIC itself to take …
Read More »Storey County Taxpayer’s Investment in TRIC Tops $100 Million Dollars With Latest Pipeline Deal
Effluent Pipeline Deal Could Cost Storey County Taxpayers up to $60 Million The August 1st Commissioners Meeting agenda included a proposal for Storey County Taxpayers to borrow $35 Million Dollars to purchase 19 miles of pipeline for the TRIC General Improvement District to transfer effluent purchased from Washoe County. TRIC …
Read More »Dean Haymore – Grateful County Pays Tribute to a True Visionary.
A large gathering of grateful people met at the Virginia and Truckee Depot in Gold Hill to say goodbye to one of the best employees Storey County has ever had. Dean Haymore, after 30 years of dedicated service to Storey County, retired on June 30th, 2017. It was a …
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