President Reagan once said - "tear down this wall."

This Board needs to say: "remove these curtains."

As they are preventing Department Managers from being present at budget hearings. Establishing a system of transparency is our responsibility, while accomplishing this we cannot exclude the right of the public to participate and collaborate in the budget process. Any level of openness that is interfered with only ensures that the public trust will be damaged.

HAWTHORNE — Seven Marines from a North Carolina unit were killed when a 60mm mortar exploded unexpectedly at a Nevada military depot that's an important training facility for troops headed overseas, a Marine Corps official said.

The Marines immediately issued an indefinite moratorium on firing of all such mortars worldwide until an investigation clears as safe the type of weapon and ammunition in the tragedy.

Retired Nevada Supreme Court Justice Bob Rose, who now serves as a senior judge, was injured this morning in a car accident and is hospitalized in Fallon. He is listed in “good condition” according to Sara Quale, spokeswoman for Banner Churchill Community Hospital in Fallon.

Rose, who lives in Carson City, was on his way to oversee Drug Court in the Fallon, Yerington and Hawthorne court, when he crashed near Highway 50 at about 7:30 a.m.

A Carson City woman will receive a service dog thanks to the The Milk-Bone brand and Sam’s Club.
The two companies joined forces to provide Carrie Henrichsen, a staff attorney with Nevada Legal Services, the service dog through the nonprofit organization Canine Assistants.