The Galaxy Theater in Carson City has been having a mess of problems on Friday and Saturday nights with teenagers “running riot through the theaters, disrupting showings and sometimes intimidating other patrons.”
Indeed, the problem was costing them money, as many customers were demanding refunds. So the theater recently imposed a ban on […]
Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Mary Pierczynski, Carson City’s highly-regarded public school superintendent, is retiring at the end of this school year. The school board, therefore, must hire a replacement. However, not only doesn’t the board president want to open the process to anyone but the candidate he’s already settled on, he doesn’t think parents and taxpayers should […]
Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Readers of Nevada News & Views know I haven’t exactly been waving pom-poms and cheering the level of service and programs delivered by the Carson City Department of Parks and Recreation. It started earlier this year with my opposition to plans to build a multi-million dollar Taj Mahal super-recreation center out in the boonies […]
Posted on December 23rd, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Despite the tough economic times, Carson City officials still want a new, bigger library. Never mind the fact that there’s never a line to get into the current library, which often resembles a ghost town. Thanks to the Internet, more and more people, especially students, are able to access the information they want […]
Posted on December 11th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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In a recent Nevada Appeal column congratulating Gov. Gibbons for painting over the name of philanthropist Larry Ruvo on a public building, Guy Farmer asks why the state named “a public building after a wealthy Las Vegas liquor distributor” in the first place. Fair question. So I did a little checking.
First, let’s talk […]
Posted on October 15th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Carson City school board member Joe Enge, who refuses to simply go along to get along with other members of the board, is filing a Open Meeting Law (OML) violation complaint against his own board and board president today.
This isn’t the first time the Carson City school board has been hit with a complaint that […]
Posted on August 30th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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If you want to see a classic example of unfettered liberal flapdoodle in print, catch this bleeding heart pabulum from one Lorie Schaefer, who inked a response to my “Gravy Train” column about all the kids in Nevada who are getting a free or reduced-priced lunch. It’s got everything you’ve come to expect from […]
Posted on August 22nd, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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There was a minor error in the Nevada Appeal story on the free and reduced lunch recipients in the paper on Monday. Only at one elementary school do 85 percent of students qualify as poor…er, “low income.” Citywide the figure is “only” around 45 percent.
And as I suspected, the free lunch program does, […]
Posted on August 9th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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According to government figures cited in a recent Nevada Appeal story, the next time you go to the playground in Carson City and watch a Little League baseball game, know that the families of eight of the nine kids on the field are “poor.” As such, every one of those kids except, say, the […]
Posted on August 7th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Day in, day out, Nevada citizens have been inundated with hysterical, Chicken Little warnings about not having enough money for highway construction projects and are told that there just isn’t any money anywhere in the budget to divert to this pressing priority. Then you pick up this morning’s Nevada Appeal and see that the […]
Posted on June 1st, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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