The Storey Teller News and commentary on what’s really going on in Storey County.

Storey County Community Emergency Response Team (C.E.R.T.) Volunteers Help Keep Senior Citizen Properties Clean The Storey County C.E.R.T. volunteers and representatives from the Virginia City Eagles Aerie came to the assistance of Storey County Seniors during the annual free dump services provided by Waste Management. Working with Stacy Gilbert of …

Back It Up or Back It Off As many of you know, I write hard-hitting articles that are critical of issues and actions here in Storey County that I believe merit such attention. Based on recent actions from Team Storey, some of these articles are hitting close to the mark. …

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 …

Kids Day In The Park A Hit Kids of all ages gathered at Miners Park in Virginia City On Sunday, May 6th to kick off the Spring season of Fun. The Storey County Fire Department had trucks for the kids to sit in and over a dozen vendors were there …

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 …

FY17-18 Storey County Taxable Sales Remain Flat The Nevada Department of Taxation released a lengthy report on Nevada’s taxable sales in 2018. According to their figures, Nevada’s revenue from taxable sales are up over FY 2016-2017. Taxable Sales reached $4.3 billion dollars in February 2018, a 3.2% increase over February …

  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 …

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 …

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 …

Stonewall verb [with object] delay or block (a request, process, or person) by refusing to answer questions or by giving evasive replies, especially in politics: (as noun stonewalling) : the art of stonewalling and political intimidation | the highest level of bureaucracy stonewalled us. As many of you know, Storey …