A number of the smartest, most considerate individuals I do know serve on native boards and commissions, volunteering their time and abilities for the general public good. These panels are beneath siege by small, stridentand continuously disruptiveteams of individuals bent on pushing their ideologies on everybody else. From the county fee to the varsity board, … [Read more…]
A personcarrying a pink wig and dressed as a girluncovered harmless kids to books, with phrases and illustrations, at two Reno libraries in June. It was a literary bloodbath. The horror, the horror! At the very least thats the best way the Washoe County Republican management sees drag queen story hour, the topic of Zoe … [Read more…]
Because the 2023 Legislature winds down, Im reminded of the 1997 session, which I coated as a reporter for the Reno Gazette-Journal. It was a 12 months of belt-tightening. Lawmakers spent quite a lot of time lamenting the onerous selections they needed to make as they decimated state budgets. Schooling, well being care, social providers … [Read more…]
Editors get plenty of information suggestions and strategies for tales from readers; we rely on them. Journalists cant be in every single place, so suggestions and story concepts make our jobs simpler. There has at all times been a crackpot part to such suggestions that may be welcome as properlyas comedian reduction. When a breathless … [Read more…]
In 1977, as a reporter for my faculty newspaper, I snagged a Secret Service press cross to cowl President Jimmy Carter, who was attending a convention in Denver on Western water points. My journalism expertise was restricted to interviews with professors and college students, so I used to be excited to be among the many … [Read more…]
For months through the pandemic, Frank X. Mullen didnt simply work for the Reno Information & Assessment; he was the Reno Information & Assessment. In Could 2020, the RN&R revealed seven items on-line. Three of them have been by Frank. In June 2020, the RN&R revealed 14 items on-line. Eleven of them have been by … [Read more…]
In 2013, I took a buyout after 25 years as a reporter and editor on the Reno Gazette-Journal. I received a name from Reno Mayor Bob Cashell, a Texas transplant who turned one among Nevadas favourite sons. Youre too younger to be nailing the outdated coonskin to the wall, Bob drawled. I instructed him Id … [Read more…]