Commentary

Cover Image: People waiting to get a COVID-19 test in a drive-thru testing facility in New Mexico. On June 11, Washoe County Reported a new one day record of new COVID cases. According to Washoe County Health Officer Kevin Dick, this is not what they expected. “We’re reporting 61 additional …

Editor’s Note: It’s back to school season. We want to look at several different threads in the coming days regarding our school system and how it is doing herer in The Richest Place On Earth. Las Vegas teachers were able to avoid a strike by demanding another 6% to teach …

Editors Note: The Teller welcomes guest articles. If you would like to submit one, send it to editor@thestoreyteller.online. The views expressed by Mr. Knecht are his alone but are shared by The Teller. By Ron Knecht – 13 August 2019 In last week’s column, I showed things really are much …

outlandish | outˈlandiSH | adjective looking or sounding bizarre or unfamiliar: outlandish, brightly colored clothes | the most outlandish ideas. archaic foreign or alien. Storey County is looking for a new County Manager to replace the soon to be retiring Pat Whitten. In an effort to be as transparent as …

A Guest Editorial from Ron Knecht This is the first of a series of columns summarizing my Controller’s Annual Report (CAR) for fiscal year 2018 (FY18).  Based on the state’s official books and records, the CAR provides Nevada citizens, officials and others a summary of key facts, data, analysis and …

Storey County Has Two New Hopeful Dope Dealers The Nevada Department of Taxation announced this week they issued 61 new conditional licenses for Marijuana businesses across Nevada. The majority of the licenses are in Southern Nevada (31) with 6 in Henderson, 10 in Las Vegas proper, 5 in North Las …

When I was a kid growing up on the Comstock Lode, I really looked forward to the Storey County Christmas Party. Every year the community would hold a party and I was one of the dozens of kids who would sing and enjoy hot apple cider. I remember fondly walking …

Nevada Historian and political junkie Stanley Paher sent me his political prognostications last night with permission to reprint them here. Stanley is a Nevada Author and Historian with Dozens of books to his credit. His book Nevada Ghost Towns and Desert Atlas are standard fare of desert rats across the …

Team Storey – A Culture Of Thuggery One of the reasons I started The Teller was to provide another side of the Recall Sheriff Antinoro story in February of 2017. Sheriff Antinoro was shouldering an onslaught of remarkable smears from Team Gilman and the Good Old Boys (GOBs) infecting Team …

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 …