News
Shots reaching Latinos’ arms
Juanita Ruiz, 99, wasn’t nervous about getting jabbed with a needle to protect her from COVID-19 as long as her son, Jose Garcia, was close by. “My mother will turn 100 in June,” Garcia said. […]
Year: 2021
News
The perils of pandemic pets
During the COVID-19 pandemic, severe animal cruelty cases have increased in Washoe County along with cases of pet abandonment and neglect. On the plus side, local animal shelters have been using online systems to quickly […]
City life
Earth Day Events
For the second year in a row, there will be no Earth Day festival in Reno’s Idlewild Park, but other related activities and celebrations are on the calendar this month. Whether you prefer in-person activities […]
Health
Health coverage enhanced
Thanks to recent federal pandemic relief measures, more Nevadans than ever now qualify for low- or no-cost health insurance plans – if they sign up by the extended May 15 deadline. The state exchange is […]
The arts
NMA goes radically Victorian
In an age when children were losing fingers while working in textile mills, and coal soot rained on Britain’s cities, a cadre of young artists pushed back against the Industrial Revolution with a rebellion of […]
News
Utopia on the Truckee
The road to building a high-tech, smart city in the desert east of Reno has so far been paved with cash and propaganda, and will soon reach a crossroads as the Nevada Legislature lurches past […]
Nevada books
Natural reading
This year’s Nevada Reads book selections fit in well with the last 12 months of pandemic-related stress: a pair of memoirs that make connections between literature and the natural world. Nevada Reads is a statewide […]
nevada history
Nevada HerStories: Sports and civic duty
The genesis of some of Nevada’s most popular sports, the preservation of its historic sites and the founding of a regional hospital are interwoven with the accomplishments of women who made headlines long ago, but […]
Letters to the Editor
More March mail
Cult becomes a religion As I drive around Northern California and Nevada, I notice Trump and American flags flying happily together. It kind of reminds me of a religion. I believe the Trump thing has gone beyond […]
News
The Truckee’s blighted banks
A woman’s birthday wish to provide food to unsheltered people along the Truckee River last month evolved into an ongoing effort to remove mountains of trash from the river’s edge before the rushing waters of […]
Essays
An indigenous river
Born amid an uplift of mountains millions of years ago, the Truckee River still flows 125 miles from Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake. It carries life from the Sierra Nevada to the Great Basin Desert, […]
nevada history
Nevada HerStories: The good fight
In 1973, Maya Miller, a champion of the voiceless and the poor, was nearly banned from the Nevada Legislature for “littering.” Miller’s offense? She threw the fast-food wrappings of legislators on the floor because she […]