Tag Archives: Storey County

How Special Interests Cost Storey County Part One – Reputation During my lobbying with legislators in the 2019 Nevada Legislative session, I had the opportunity to meet with legislators. During a meeting with the leadership in the Assembly, I mentioned I was a journalist in Storey County. “A journalist in …

Storey County Community Comes Together Assist Local Family As reported in The Teller, Janice McElhaney was murdered on Sunday, January 26th in the Virginia City Highlands. In the days that followed, Esmie Hess set up a gofundme page to help her surviving children. From the gofundme page: On Sunday, January …

Is Sam Toll A Reporter? Judge Rules Yes. Readers of The Teller are aware of the upcoming hearing to determine if The Teller’s editor Sam Toll is a journalist and if The Teller is a modern day equivalent of a newspaper. The hearing was originally set for December 20th. It …

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Storey County Gets It’s First Car Dealership. Sort Of. Telsa announced this week that they are opening Northern Nevada’s first Tesla “dealership”. Tesla says that customers can schedule an appointment to take delivery of a new Tesla and take a tour of the Gigafactory online. Car buyers must configure 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 …

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 …

Earthquake Preparedness Great Nevada Shakeout Great Shakeout Earthquake Drills promote both internal and community-wide earthquake readiness. Participants practice the “Drop, Cover, and Hold On” safety procedure and other aspects of their emergency plans. ShakeOut is designed so you can tailor the drill to your organization’s needs, and typically is not …

Storey County Commission Job Description I attended Nicole Barde’s “interview the candidate” event in Virginia City last week. One of the handouts she provided was a job description of the County Commissioner. Because her format was “interview the candidate”, she provided a job description for the job of Commissioner. Her …

Storey County's May 2018 Taxable Sales came in at $ 95,570,577 compared with $ 145,673,690 from May, 2017; a difference of $ 50,103,113. The May numbers represent the fourth consecutive month that taxable sales have been less than previous years sales.