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Carson City restaurant inspection reports for June 29
Friday, June 29, 2012 - 12:09pm

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Views Mixed On Effect Of New National Public Pension Reporting Rules On Nevada PERS
Friday, June 29, 2012 - 10:50am

CARSON CITY – The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has voted to approve two new standards that the group says will substantially improve the accounting and financial reporting of public employee pensions by state and local governments.

DUI checkpoint slated for Incline Village at Lake Tahoe during July 4 holiday
Friday, June 29, 2012 - 7:46am

The Nevada Highway Patrol, along with the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, Sparks Police Department, and the Carson City Sheriff’s Office are planning a sobriety check point at Lake Tahoe for the Fourth of July holiday.
The check point will be held in Incline Village and is being funded by a Joining Forces grant from the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety.
Due to the fireworks display and other special events planned at Lake Tahoe, a large increase in both vehicular and pedestrian traffic expected during the holiday, said NHP Sgt. Scott Farmer.

Carson City employee publishes second book
Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 5:27pm

I recently was taking a trip back to the North East and needed a few books for my long flight from Reno. After hearing about Bonners Fairy through Elizabeth’s husband Dave, whom I work with, I was intrigued. He gave me a copy before I left and after reading the first one I was hooked! Soon to follow, I was anxious to start the second book, A New Kind of Battle. Once I got my hands on a copy, it took me less than 24 hours to read. I was eager to find out what our favorite characters were up to, and how things were panning out in Bonners Ferry and Roan.

Sandoval Defends Secrecy, Tax Breaks Needed To Lure Apple To Northern Nevada
Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 2:36pm

CARSON CITY – Gov. Brian Sandoval today defended the secretive process that led to a

Taxable sales down 11.5 percent in Carson City in April
Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 1:44pm

Carson City's taxable sales slumped in April, down 11.5 percent over prior year, according to the latest report from the Nevada Department of Taxation.

The city is still up 1.6 for sales year to date compared with last year.

Taxable sales statewide rose 5.1 percent in April compared to prior year.

See full stats below:

'Obamacare' upheld by Supreme Court
Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 7:39am

The Supreme Court today upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the court's liberal wing in a 5-4 vote.

Back in March, I wrote how this whole case hinged on flawed wording in the law when it was written. The authors failed to see how they should have framed this as a tax, not a mandate, and achieved the same result in a more constitutionally friendly way.

Here is how I framed it:

Outdoors with Don Q: The Fourth of July will be different this year
Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 2:56am

If you have not yet made any plans to be in the Great Outdoors for the upcoming Fourth of July, you might want to heed some or all of the following tips.
Because the Fourth of July falls in the middle of the week on Wednesday this year, it will put a crimp in many folks’ plans for celebrating in the outdoors, as many of them will only have Wednesday off as a holiday.
So, their celebrating will have to occur either on the preceding weekend or the weekend following the Fourth.

With that said, consider this for either weekend:

Carson City to host International Women's Motorcycle Conference in July
Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 2:48am

Carson City’s wide open high desert roads and proximity to the High Sierra is the main attraction for hundreds of motorcycle enthusiasts from around the world this summer when it hosts the 2012 American Motorcycle Association's International Women & Motorcycling Conference, July 26-29.

Nugget Project ballot question petition submitted to clerk
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 3:23pm

The people behind the petition effort to force the Carson City Center aka Nugget Project on the ballot submitted 4,559 signatures to the Carson City Clerk-Recorder's office for verification this morning.

The group needs have have 2,935 signatures verified by the clerk to qualify the petition. Day Williams, an attorney who is part of the petitioners' group, said they did their own verification check of the signatures against the voter rolls and are confident they have more than enough to qualify.

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