Editorial

By coming forward and disclosing wrongdoing within government or business, whistleblowers stand to lose their jobs, their families or worse. If whistleblowers can’t rely on journalists to maintain their anonymity, we all lose as a society. The most valuable currency we have as journalists is our integrity. I made a promise to my sources and must consider the real prospect of jail time simply because I don’t put ink to paper while reporting. This ruling mixes two parts Kafka with one part Orwell for online journalists.

Guest Column By Ron Knecht – This is the fourth in a series of columns summarizing my Controller’s Annual Report for fiscal year 2018 (FY18). The first two columns showed that since FY06 state spending has grown faster than Nevada’s economy, thus imposing an ever-larger real burden on Nevada families …

State Health Care Spending: The 900 Pound Gorilla Guest Column by Ron Knecht This is the third in a series of columns summarizing my Controller’s Annual Report (CAR) for the fiscal year 2018 (FY18). The first two columns (click here for the first and here for the second) showed that …

Key Facts on Nevada State Taxes Guest column gracefully written by former Nevada Controller Ron Knecht. This is the second in 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 …

4150 Out Of 4200 Storey County Residents Agree – Don’t Treat Us Like Mushrooms The Teller remains critical of the way Storey County communicates with its citizens since we started nearly two years ago. The county has a Public Information Officer (County Manager in waiting Austin Osborne) and an actual …

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 …

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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 …