Monthly Archives: January, 2010
Beguiling beauty graces Biggest Little City
The private papal chambers of the Vatican weren’t the only surfaces favored by the brush of High Renaissance master Raphael Sanzio. Equally famous in...
Mango Language Learning from the Washoe County Library System
The Washoe County Library System offers a language learning tool called Mango Languages. It is an interactive languages learning system. I like it a...
Opinion: How I met the girl
It was another cold, overcast day in January. There was only a week left before the Rembrandt exhibit at the Nevada Museum of Art...
Legislative leadership rejects request by Gibbons to draft bills for possible special session
If Governor Jim Gibbons wants to bring his entire education reform agenda to a special session of the Legislature, from eliminating mandates for class-size reduction to repealing Nevada's collective bargaining law, he will have to draft the bills himself.
Zip code, reporting errors found on Nevada pages of stimulus Web site
More errors have been discovered at recovery.gov, the $18 million government Web site that tracks spending for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.In addition to previously discovered reports of spending in Nevada congressional districts that do not exist, including $7.7 million reportedly sent to Nevada's ninth, 22nd, 25th and 32nd congressional districts, new findings show errors in the Web site's breakdown of the state's funding by zip code.
Dodging Diabetes Dodgeball Tournament to benefit Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASETeams are invited to dodge, duck and dive on three separate courts at the South Reno Athletic Club at 10 a.m. Saturday,...
Government efficiency panel calls for reform to state employee pay and benefit package
By Sean Whaley--Nevada News BureauCARSON CITY--A final report from a panel of private citizens charged with finding efficiencies in state government says the generous...
Eden’s Outcasts – The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson
Yesterday the Reno Newcomers Club Book Club discussed Eden's Outcasts - The Story of Luisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson. It...
Gibbons announces education reform proposal
Gov. Gibbons is firmly committed to improving K-12 education in Nevada. Improvement will require new ideas and fresh resolve to replace blind allegiance to ineffectual and wasteful notions that have demonstrated no substantive gains in academic performance for the last 20 years.
SAGE Commission presents governor with final report
The SAGE Commission has produced six reports with more than 40 recommendations. Some of the most recent recommendations include reducing costs to the state by reducing the use of outside contractors for work that could be done by state employees, updating the budget process leading to zero base budgeting and creating a Nevada State Grants Coordinator position to enable to state to identify and apply for federal grants that are not currently being sought.
