Opinion

Dear parents, grandparents and concerned residents,

Carson City School Board Trustees will be deciding on the top 1 or 2 candidates to be interviewed on February 22, 2022 and February 23, 2022, if needed, to fill the Carson City School Superintendent vacancy.

This meeting will be held at the Robert Crowell Board Room, Community Center, 851 E William Street, at 5:30pm on February 2nd, 2022.

The Slaughterhouse issue goes before the Board of Supervisors (BOS) on Thursday, February 3, at 5pm.
The “Downtown 2020 Group”, the City, and other Organizations have worked hard to improve our downtown corridor to recruit businesses, tourism and make it a gathering place for our locals.

This is an open letter to Governor Sisolak, the Board of Prison Commissioners, the Director Nevada Department of Corrections and the general public of Nevada.

Nobility of character has fallen out of favor with us Americans. Our founding fathers had it, though they neglected to document the possession of it as an essential ingredient for election to office.

Time, to my mind, is merely music, if we can only hear it. It occurs to me that our lives are not played out over time, but are played out over melodies and harmonies that compose a swaying samba for instance, that might mature into a beautiful symphony.

For folk who might actually give two little Rat's Fannies about looking out for other folk so they wear a mask, I was not surprised but disappointed when I encountered one of Carson City's BOS members not wearing a mask today at Home Depot.

When I commented to the pony-tailed individual that there was a mask mandate he was less than enthusiastic.

I advised that he might want to lead by example...yeah, like that's gonna happen.

This article/petition is set in motion to Stop all Discriminatory policies in the State of Nevada being imposed on Government/State Employees based on COVID “vaccination status.”

https://www.change.org/ProtectNVstateworkers

The Nevada Governors Office is planning to implement weekly Covid testing this month along with a $55 surcharge for all State employees starting in July who don’t meet the definition of “fully vaccinated.”

I believe Antonio Brown is consciously doing the things he’s doing and should be held accountable no question…. but he has CTE in all likelihood. This has unfortunately aided in his antics off (and now on) the field. No, Antonio Brown should not be given another chance in the NFL (but most likely will) because of his antics. Instead, he should be focused on his brain and mental well-being.

Dateline Saudi Arabia, where 40 Botox enhanced camels were recently disqualified from a beauty contest. Personally, I feel sorry for those camels, as I had a personal experience with Botox myself that I’m almost too embarrassed to talk about.

This is the hardiest lot in the country today. They are the whole-hearted few that see winter through up on the Comstock Lode, the squirrels that wear dusters. They make their money in the summer, then squirrel it away to see them through a cold Comstock winter.

As we all know, preparation for war begets war, and Russia, with 100,000 troops camping on the Ukrainian border, has taken an increasingly bellicose stand. But wait! E-Sports might come to the rescue.

The Slaughterhouse goes back to the Planning Commission on Wednesday, December 15, at the Community Center in the Bob Crowell room. It starts at 3pm, but the slaughterhouse's application most likely will not be reviewed until 5p.m. or later, depending on how much time other agenda items take. You are all welcome to attend.

"Dinner on the patio? First, hold the stench" by Scott McFetridge Ass. Press Des Moines, Iowa, is the article that was posted in the Reno Gazette-Journal | Thursday, 25 November 2021, Page A11 –
Click on the link below to read this amazing story.

People sometimes ask me when I’m pretending to be Mark Twain, “Is there any humor to be found in the Bible?” “Yes,” I answer, with a little sugar in my voice. “There is humor to be found in the Bible, especially at Christmas, when we need it most. You see, there exists a street in Damascus, even today, that goes by the name of, are you sitting down? Goes by the name of, 'Straight.'"

Dateline Canada, where today’s most industrious landscape architects are the world’s busiest beavers. Having been an Oregon Duck fan all my life, I really don’t buy much stock in them buck-toothed beavers, though I do have a soft spot in my heart for the beavers of Canada.

Since 1989 lucky turkeys have had their necks ceremoniously saved each Thanksgiving by presidential pardon.

Modern-day presidents generally take the credit for this feel-good symbolism; but the real hero for these fortunate gobblers is a little boy named Thomas, whose influence over his father resulted in what would later become a national tradition.

I’m not a numbers person, but sometimes numbers add up in such a way as to make an impression, and now that I’m slightly older than Smokey Bear, I figure I’d better start doing something socially redeemable before it’s too late.

A friend of mine, and popular columnist, whose name shall be kept a secret to protect the innocent, but rhymes with Pat Hickey, asked me yesterday if I believed in a life beyond. I felt like Jack Benny when confronted by a robber who demanded, “Your money or your life!”

So, please help me if you can. What in tarnation is a Bitcoin, anyways? To my mind, a day’s work has always earned an American dollar, a Russian ruble or a French franc. I understand coins are disappearing as they aren’t worth much anymore, but what is a Bitcoin, and what’s it worth? I posed this question to a savvy friend of mine and he shrugged his shoulders and said, “sixty-six thousand?”

I, Jim Shirk spoke at that the Board of Supervisors meeting October 21st, this is I said -
about Clinton/Slaughterhouse/Bagwell

So, are we going to save ourselves or press the snooze button? I read an article in the New York Times by Damien Cave that gave me a shiver of renewable hope that there might be a mere mortal out there who could actually, should prayer fail, save us.

To the Board of Supervisors, I live within a short radius of the proposed slaughterhouse. I’m deeply concerned that it’s being presented to the community as a boutique retail store with a slaughterhouse that will have a minimal impact on the community.

Like most people I keep a list of expressions and phrases that I can lay my hands on and bootleg at first opportunity. But then like most people, I never quite get around to employing such an invaluable resource.

There will come a time when intermarriage of diverse races will produce a child that nobody can look at and dislike. That time is now, and that child has arrived.

The following have Appealed the Slaughterhouse. The “Downtown 2020 Group”, “Coalition of Citizens for Peaceful Enjoyment” and Maxine Nietz of Capital City Computing and former Planning Commissioner.

Not only is this a threat to Carson City’s environment, it is a Moral issue.

Re: The approval of the slaughterhouse on Highway 50. It is unconscionable that the Planning Commission allowed a substantial change to the application and approved this item over the objections of many Carson City citizens. Most of the people in favor of this proposal were from other jurisdictions, including a Douglas County Planning Commissioner (they dis-approved of this item). An additional public hearing was clearly indicated with the changes suggested by the applicant, but the Planning Commission chose to ignore the public. Whom do they answer to?

I used to sometimes remind my son, “The best two things money can buy are the morning paper and flowers for your mother.” When Mac was in seventh grade I would ask him to read an article out of the morning paper before heading off to school, which he did without complaint, sometimes.

We are longtime residents of Carson City and oppose the slaughterhouse approved by the planning commission last week.

Supporters of the project say that our region of Nevada is in need of a slaughterhouse. We have no reason to dispute that. But that does not mean it should be located in Carson City. On the contrary, a slaughterhouse should be placed in a rural part of the region, not a populated urban area.

Later this month I have the honor of participating in a Chautauqua down in Boulder City, Nevada as Mark Twain alongside Erma Bombeck, Julia Childs and Will Rogers. What a treat, for they are a few of my heroes.

If you don’t believe there is a climate crisis, or that we need to take action to reduce the mega-forest fires and catastrophic flooding, you might as well stop reading.  But if you want to substantially reduce the amount of CO2 pollution, the root cause of global warming, which is making fires and floods much worse, read on.

Apparently, on the slaughterhouse floor in our neighborhood. On the Planning Commission's agenda on 9/29 at 5 PM is a proposal to locate a slaughterhouse across the street from our neighborhood -- within sight of our kids' school bus stop, 900 feet from the Villa Sierra Mobile Home Park, and 1,056 feet from the Morgan Mill Road recreational area. Whoa! We’re a-OK with the facility, it’s the location that totally sucks -- it just doesn't seem right to us to have this kind of business in town. We have concerns.