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I've long believed that balance is the key to living. Balancing how we treat ourselves and others makes all the difference between harmony and discord.

Since March of this year, the need for balance has become more clear to me than ever before. Our initial responses to the coronavirus outbreak and the death of George Floyd couldn't have been more imbalanced if we had tried.

Carson City’s own community radio station, KNVC, has been quietly churning out locally curated music, news, information and talk shows for about three years now, and they’re only gaining speed as time goes on.

KNVC runs out of the historic Adams House on North Minnesota Street and, at present, boasts 31 volunteers into its broadcasting family.

Chambered for Charity, an unincorporated non-profit, invites community members to sign up for the first Aim to Cure Sporting Clays Shoot on Sept. 21, 2019 at the Capitol City Gun Club in Carson City, Nev.

Chambered for Charity was formed by the women of two local Reno companies, Legacy Sports International and Reno Cerakote. Their mission is “to enhance the lives of others through charitable donations while promoting the safe, responsible use of firearms.”

Kirk Caraway, owner/publisher of Carson Now, will be the featured speaker at Monday's Carson City Democratic luncheon. Originally from Kansas, Kirk began his career as a newspaper writer and editor, a time-honored family tradition, but migrated over time to online platforms. He will share his perspective on current trends in community news media.

With a dedicated mission to engage, inform and entertain a regional audience, KNVC community radio is broadcasting at 95.1 FM in Carson City, bringing a wide range of local tastes in music that reach the ears of listeners south into Douglas County and north through Washoe Valley.

Yesterday was my last official day in charge of Carson Now. Today I am heading off to Silicon Valley and the adventure of being a Knight Fellow at Stanford University.

I'm happy to report that I'm leaving Carson Now in good hands. Actually, two sets of hands, which will mean more news and better service for the people of Carson City.

When I read last month that the Nevada Appeal planned to start charging readers to access their web content, a tune began playing in my head: "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..."

Since the first step of their paywall (as we in the industry refer to paid access systems) was erected on Wednesday, traffic for Carson Now shot up 50 percent. I expect that to grow even more when the first free trial period ends and they begin asking readers for their credit cards.

After spending decades helping so many here in Carson City, Vikki Hopkins finds herself on the receiving end of that help today.

In September 2010 she was diagnosed with an advanced form of lung cancer. Upon hearing about it, her co-workers started spreading the word about her struggle. Almost immediately a movement began to help Vikki and her family with this struggle. The response was immediate and overwhelming.

By now, you have probably heard about the fiasco in Bell, Calif., where city officials were being paid outrageous salaries while cutting services and raising taxes.

When the manager of a city of 36,000 residents takes home almost $800,000 a year, that's going to raise some eyebrows. And how did he and other city executives get these salaries? The elected officials in Bell gave it to them, along with $100,000 annual salaries for themselves, for their part-time jobs.

Community news belongs to the community.

This is the concept that led me to develop Carson Now, the idea that for a news organization to truly serve the community, it needed to belong to the community.

Part of this idea comes from my experience of being on the front lines as corporate media cutbacks resulted in communities not being well served in terms of news coverage.

So my idea was to create Carson Now as a nonprofit organization, whose mission was limited to serving the community. Nonprofit media organizations are a fairly new development, with sites like Voice of San Diego and MinnPost leading the way.

The staff of Carson Now would like to officially welcome the readers of News Carson City. Dave Morgan started News Carson City as a cable access channel in 1994, and the NewsCarsonCity.com website in 2005. Through his tireless work, he built a great local news alternative.

Dear News Carson City readers,

In order to better serve our community, News Carson City, TV and Internet, are changing. The change will transform NewsCarsonCity.com into more of a newspaper format, with more text than video.