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Arlington bridges (and tunnel vision?)
It seems like an easy fix: replace an aging Reno bridge system over the Truckee River with similar concrete spans and be done with it for at least 75 years. That’s the problem, according to […]
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City life
Walking on sunshine
The drab slab covering the downtown Reno train trench looks like a prison exercise yard, but muralist Brad Carney saw a colorful story hidden beneath the concrete. “I always say the mural has to be […]
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Teams work to create cleaner, safer downtown
The Reno man had recently kicked a heroin habit when he got word that his mother was dying of cancer in Tucson, Ariz. The news hit him hard. He had an emotional breakdown outside the […]
City life
Rising above the mean streets
Donald Griffin knows that kindness costs him nothing. Griffin, a Downtown Reno Partnership Ambassador, is pushing Robert’s wheelchair over to Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada on Fourth Street to help him get some new clothes. […]
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Requiem for a Reno landmark
If Harrah’s walls could talk, they also would sing and laugh. The voices of Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Merle Haggard, Chuck Berry and Loretta Lynn would ring out on key. Guffaws and belly laughs […]
City life
Relief by the bag
Longtime local chef helps restaurant workers get by during the coronavirus crisisOne group of community members that has been the hardest hit by the response to COVID-19 has been front-line restaurant workers. While the businesses […]