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CARSON CITY – Assemblyman-elect Pat Hickey, R-Reno, today has called for a return to “electioneering sanity� by moving Nevada’s primary election date back to September.
Hickey is requesting a bill draft to make the change from the much earlier June primary date used for the first time this election cycle.

I turned off the TV late last night, unable to withstand another minute of talking head after talking head trying to come up with a narrative for this election.

For some reason, it seems they think that their audience is comprised of 6-year-olds who can't comprehend anything that isn't force-fed to them in tiny, single-concept bites.

Was it the NObama election? Was the the fiery phoenix of the Tea Party? Was it creeping socialism, or simple arrogance? What about government spending? Or was it just time to throw the bums out?

By Sean Whaley / Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY – There will be no supermajorities for Democrats in either the state Senate or Assembly in the 2011 session, meaning the parties will have to work together and with Republican Gov.-elect Brian Sandoval on issues from taxes to redistricting.
Republicans in the 42-member state Assembly, who had been outnumbered 28-14, retained their seats and picked up two held by Democrats, enough to take away a veto-proof majority held by Democrats in the 2009 session.

Carson City Republican Pete Livermore has won the Nevada Assembly District 40 race against Democrat Robin Williamson, costing the party a crucial seat against Republican Governor-elect Brian Sandoval.

Livermore received 51.42 percent of the vote in Carson City and within a sliver of Washoe Valley. Williamson had 48.58 percent of the vote.

"I'm humbled and grateful that so many have shown trust for me," Livermore said. "I'm eager to get started so we can get people back to work."

With all precincts, early voting and absentee ballots counted, here is the still yet unofficial percentage breakdown for Carson City elected positions.

Sheriff:
Kenny Furlong 60.75
Bob Guimont 39.25

Supervisors Ward 1:
Karen Abowd 54.14
Rob Joiner 45.85

Supervisor Ward 3
John McKenna 63.65
Day Williams 36.35

School Board District 1
Ron Swirczek 50.53
Julie Bushner 49.48

School Board District 6
Barbara Myers 54.52
Randy Carlson 45.50

Assessor
Dave Dawley 76.65
Ian Mindling 23.35

Carson City School Bond Passes 55.44

State questions
1: no 65.25
2: no 61
3: no 68
4: no 71

State Senate
James Arnold Settelmeyer 65.88
Kevin Ranft: 29.14

Assembly District 40
Pete Livermore: 51.42
Robin Williamson: 48.58

Leaders in early voting (percentage of the vote)

Sheriff:
Kenny Furlong 62.8

Supervisors Ward 1:
Karen Abowd 52.28

Supervisor Ward 3
John McKenna 64.18

School Board District 1
Ron Swirczek 50.3

School Board District 6
Barbara Meyers 54

Assessor
Dave Dawley 78

School Bond 53.6

State questios
1: no 65.25
2: no 61
3: no 68
4: no 71

Carson Lanes Presents.. The Amazing "Out of Towners". This talented duo is back by popular demand playing Top 40 and Variety. The Dance Floor is sure to be hopping. No Cover and Smoke-Free. Happy Hour Daily from 5-6pm (Buy one, Get on FREE). Must be 21.

In case you have not yet seen it, Dear Readers, check out my story about the lengths to which Harrah’s executives in Las Vegas went to try to help the Harry Reid campaign during early voting last week. It was featured on the National Review front page and made national headlines today.
We will be talking more about this story tonight during elections coverage on KTNV Channel 13 Action News. Tune in.

The Carson City Board of Supervisors is seeking applications from individuals who may be interested in serving on the Carson City Cultural Commission and the Carson River Advisory Committee.

For the Cultural Commission there are two positions open for "citizen at large" that are three-year terms that expire January 2014.

Please join us to hear our guest speaker Lindsey Swanson with SalesPartners Reno, Co-Founder.

Early voting totals from the Carson City Clerk's office show that more than half of registered Republicans and Democrats have already voted early or sent in absentee ballots.

There were 5,235 Republicans who voted early, with another 770 who sent in absentee ballots, out of a total of 11,195 who are registered to vote. For Democrats, 3,920 voted early with 529 absentee ballots, out of 8,699 registered.

Of the 4,843 registered voters not affiliated with Democrats or Republicans, only 1,627 voted early, and 186 absentee.

A Carson City man faces felony and misdemeanor charges after he allegedly slapped a 12-year-old boy trying to call police for help after the man had pushed the boy's mother in a domestic dispute.

Joseph Cornell Healy, 41, was arrested Saturday in the 1400 block of Como Street. He faces charges of having prevented a witness from reporting a crime, battery that constitutes domestic violence and simple battery on a child. He is being held on $7,500 bail.

Before you vote, stop by Massage Envy at 933 Topsy Lane #422 for the Carson City Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Club.
Stop by for coffee and a relaxed atmosphere beginning at 7:30 a.m.The cost is $5 for members, $15 for non-members.

The Nevada Highway Patrol reports arresting nine people in Carson City over the three-day holiday weekend, eight of the arrests being for motorists driving under the influence and one was arrested on a warrant.

The figures are from Friday to Sunday. The best news to report is that the Northern Nevada area didn't have a single highway fatality crash this year over the Nevada Day weekend, said NHP Trooper Chuck Allen.

With 34 people turning out for a good cause, the Dayton Resource Bank raised more than $1,100 during its 5K Run on Oct. 23. One hundred percent of the funds directly benefit Dayton area school children.

Among the participants were Dayton Elementary School Principal Cory Sandburg, Healthy Communities Coalition director Christy McGill, and the entire Freshman Volleyball team of Dayton High School.

What is the Resource Bank?

Nearly 100 students in Dayton schools have been assisted through the Dayton Resource Bank in the past 2 school years.

The Northern Nevada Special Olympics program will support training and competition for 97 new bowlers this year and wants all area bowlers to participate in a fundraiser.

The "Bowl for the Gold" community fundraiser will take place on Friday, Nov. 12 at the National Bowling Stadium in Reno. Sign-in begins at 5 p.m. Bowling begins at 6 p.m. This is the inaugural "Bowl for the Gold” event in Reno.  A “Bowl for the Gold” event has been hosted for three consecutive years in Las Vegas to support southern Nevada bowlers. 

Before you head to the polls tomorrow (if you haven't voted early), you might want to check out the candidate expense forms to see who is backing our local candidates. The Secretary of State's website doesn't have all the latest forms online yet, but here are the links to the ones they do have:

Nevada Assembly District 40
Pete Livermore
Robin Williamson

Two Carson City men face felony battery charges against police officers after a large fight broke out at a local tavern on Saturday night. In the fight, a deputy was kicked in the head and taken to the hospital.

Christoper Alan Barr, 27, and Jeffrey Darrel Zumbro, 25, each face charges of felony battery. Barr remains in jail on $30,000 bail. Zumbro was released Sunday on $30,000 bail.

Republican Steve Martin, whose neck-and-neck race with incumbent state Treasurer Kate Marshall will be decided Tuesday, recently answered some questions about his candidacy in an e-interview with the Nevada News Bureau.

For the 19th consecutive year, the Carson City Shade Tree Council will host its annual Fall Tree Care Seminar on November 3, 2010. The Seminar will be held in the Sierra Room at the Community Center from 8:30 am until 4 pm and is open to all tree care professionals and tree lovers in the community. The Community Center is located at 851 East William Street in Carson City.

The Seminar will be broadcast on Carson City’s public access television stations.

Read the full story at aroundcarson.com.

The Women's Club will be discussing "Wither, Wherefore and How"; an analytic planning session to decide how best to proceed for the very important next two years. Lunch can be ordered at 11:30AM, the program begins at noon.

Fro information, call Donna at 884-3037

Here are more photos of Saturday's Nevada Day Parade.

The Nevada Day Parade in downtown Carson City drew tens of thousands to Carson Street today to watch and celebrate the Silver State's statehood.
Parade-goers were treated this morning with an air show above the Carson City skies, including the traditional F18 Hornet fly-over.

Click here for more photos. Festivities continue today with the annual Nevada Day Beard Contest at the Capitol Amphitheater. This begins immediately following the parade.

Live video of the Nevada Day Parade will play here starting at 10 a.m., via WeShootVideo.net:

http://www.ustream.tv/flash/live/16797/nevada-day-parade-199366

A Carson City tradition, the Halloween Haunted House hosted by Rafael Adrian, is back on after a delay.
The Haunted House is located at 1137 Lindsay Lane in Carson City. Doors open tonight, Friday, at 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. The Haunted House will also be open each night through Halloween, 7 to 10 p.m. The cost is a non-perishable food item that will be donated to the Ron Woods Family Resource Center.

By Sean Whaley / Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY – Nevada’s “actual� unemployment rate in the third quarter of 2010 increased to 22.3 percent from 21.5 percent in the second quarter, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

Judy Whites letter about John McKenna's job at Access TV is right on the money. John MckEnna was the teasurer on the Board of Trustees for the Carson Access Television Foundation when over $500,00 dollars was embezzeled by Craig Swope. I remember this story now because I was so outraged that Craig Swope got a slap on the wrist while any Joe Smo would have got years in prison. The president of that Board was Tom Baker. Mr. Baker had been in office longer than the by laws permitted.

The Appeal's Brian Duggan has a story that a new study commissioned by the Nugget Project developer shows a hotel and events center could be feasible and lure convention business to Carson City.

This seems to conflict with P3 Development's presentation to the citizens advisory committee last month, where the developer said the hotel would not be feasible for at least five years.

Carson City School District Superintendent Richard Stokes talks about the school bond question:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s63SDhf038

Kirk Caraway and Ronni Hannaman will be hosting live election night coverage from 7 to 9 p.m. on ACCTV Channel 226 for Charter Cable customers, and on CarsonNow.org and ACCTV.org. The show will feature up-to-the-minute results from local races, and discussions with political leaders. Don't miss it.

For more about the program, check out the video below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6-9ZkpddnY

By Sean Whaley / Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY – Senate Democrats are running a slate of candidates across the state in the hopes of winning a 14-seat, veto-proof majority for the upcoming 2011 session.
But Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio, R-Reno, said he does not expect it to happen, and he has not discounted the possibility of the GOP winning the majority.

For more photos go to aroundcarson.com and click here to see some spectacular photos of Halloween at the Governor's Mansion.


As reported in the Nevada Appeal and Carson Now, Doppelganger’s bar and restaurant downtown has new owners, and will be changing its name.

This week the focus is on the muscles in your body, what they do and how to strengthen them for better workouts.

• Muscles that are used often will react safely to extended use, but those of you who are new at fitness may find a different reaction to muscle usage. The tired, sore muscles that you feel after your first try at fitness can cancel all your desire to be fit. How do you plan a workout without at least one sore spot? Well-you can't.

The old Lucky Spur building downtown has gone through some changes over the years, from the vacant rats' nest, to Stew's Sportatorium, to its current identity of Doppelgangers. And under it's current name, it's seen many changes.

But now it looks like it will have a new owner and new name. Jim Phalan, owner of Firkin & Fox, will be taking over Doppelgangers and converting it to the Knee Deep Brewing Company.

By Guy W. Farmer

After Carson Nugget President Steve Neighbors accused me of basing my opposition to the Nugget Bailout Project (aka the City Center Project) on “conjecture and false innuendo” in last Tuesday’s Appeal, I asked former mayors Ray Masayko and Marv Teixeira for their opinions on this dubious project. Both Masayko and Teixeira, who were political rivals in recent years, raised serious questions about the $80 million project, which would put nearly $40 million tax dollars at risk during an economic recession and
impose an additional one-eighth-cent sales tax.

Boy Mr. Farmer and Mr. Joiner must have struck a very sensitive nerve with Mr. Neighbors. Steve Neighbors had a commentary article a week before Guy Farmers article telling us how concerned he is for Carson City's future. He proceded to tell us who he would vote for if he lived here. He endorsed Williamson and Abrowd (both for the Nugget Bail Out Project), but did not list any other issues (School Board candidates, School Bond, Governors race ect). Keep up the Good work Farmer and Joiner in making Neighbors accountable for all the facts not just the facts that benefit the Nugget.

By Sean Whaley / Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY – The state Assembly’s Democratic Caucus failed to disclose more than $120,000 in donations from its own members earlier this year, but a Democratic leader says they weren’t legally required to do so.

Can't come to the Nevada Day Parade this year? You can watch the parade LIVE at WeShootVideo.com at 10am on October 30th.

We Shoot Video, a local video production company will webcast the 2010 Nevada Day Parade live online via internet streaming.

A breakfast Thursday morning hosted by the Northern Nevada Development Authority will feature a panel of experts who will discuss the business of energy, industry and innovation.
The meeting will be held at the Carson Nugget. Doors open at 7 a.m. with breakfast at 7:30 a.m. The cost is $20 for NNDA investors with reservations and $35 for guests or at the door. Questions, contact NNDA at (775) 883-4413.

With the focus on business development, the discussion will focus on ways to make the region innovative and profitable.

The panel includes:

Carson City paramedics were called Wednesday to the Aquatic Facility on Roop Street after a child was pulled from the water and not breathing, authorities said.

Care Flight transported the 11-year-old boy from Carson-Tahoe Hospital to Renown Medical Center in Reno, according to Sheriff Ken Furlong. The child was taken by ambulance from the aquatic center to the hospital.

At the time the child arrived at the hospital he had a pulse and was breathing on his own, Furlong said.

Nevada Day kicks off this morning with annual the Nevada Day Parade, with the theme being "100 Years of Aviation" to go along with the Silver State’s admission to the Union in 1864.

Retired Lt. Col. Dick Rutan of the U.S. Air Force serves as Grand Marshal for today's celebration. He was picked to coincide with the theme, which marks a history-making flight of daredevil pilot William Ivy Baldwin west of Carson City, where he soared to 4,675 feet, the highest ever at that time.
 

By Sean Whaley / Nevada News Bureau
RENO – Secretary of State Ross Miller said today there have been no complaints filed with his office about suspicious voter activity despite email rumors and media accounts that at least some electronic voting machines are pre-programmed to support U.S. Senate candidate Harry Reid, D-NV.

ACCTV has a new program called It's Your City, and here if the first installment with Mayor Bob Crowell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkESlDZnV1E

Thank you, Dayton, for supporting the Dayton Food Pantry!

The yard sale to benefit the Dayton Food Pantry raised over $1400! This will go a long way toward providing nutritious foods to families in the Dayton Valley.

Thank you to all those who helped feed their neighbors by donating items for sale and/or braving the stormy weather to shop at the sale.

The Dayton Food Pantry is run entirely by volunteers, and made possible because every part of the community- clubs, nonprofits, schools, county services, businesses, faith groups, etc - works together to stop hunger.

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