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As Picon pursues our goal of providing investigative journalism to the community, we realized that follow up is key. As we all know, child support cases do not have to start in the halls of the Family Division of Second Judicial District Court, but sadly, with a separate Court Master, a rotating cas
Read the articleIn watching the Monday, January 8, 2024, Sparks City Council meeting you could feel the discomfort oozing from Chris Barrett, of Barrett Resources when he was stuck ‘singing for his supper’ addressing the council to get his $90,000 fee, continuing to lobby for the elusive Lands Bill approval. We say
Read the articlePicon finds it curious that City of Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve indicated in an interview with RGJ Mark Robison that the firm the City of Reno retained to investigate Councilmember Jenny Brekhus was someone from out of the area, but in fact that seems to be a bit of a mistruth. Schieve commented to R
Read the articleLittle Jack sat in the corner, eating his Christmas pie. He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum and said, “What a good boy am I.” We thought of this nursery rhyme the minute we read ‘no longer at large’ Councilmember Devon Reese’s greedy plea for more campaign funds, because now he has an op
Read the articlePicon realizes we are the Cinderella of Media in Washoe County. We get to sleep in the cinders while Mark Robison at the Reno Gazette Journal goes to the ball and hangs out with all the lords and ladies. He’s the pal of the Washoe County Government communications team. While we submit public record
Read the articleWe asked ourselves shouldn’t homeless women and children come first. Would they not be considered the most vulnerable of the homeless population. There was $500 million available due to former Governor Steve Sisolak’s Home Means Nevada affordable housing initiative so shouldn’t all hands have been o
Read the articlePicon was having a difficult time understanding these folks’ frustrations, so we decided to ask for some public records. It took a while to gain access, but we only needed to receive one email and it basically explained EVERYTHING. Remember when you were young and forced to sit at the ‘kids table’ d
Read the articleAt the recent Washoe County Board of County Commissioner meeting, December 12, 2023, the annual review of County Manager Eric Brown was a topic of discussion. It is worth noting that Manager Brown’s compensation is slightly below that of Las Vegas County Manager Kevin Schiller, who was previously a
Read the articleAfter reading our Giddyup, Commissioner Clara Andriola article, one of our readers sent us five public records she had received after asking for the code violations based on a comment made by Commissioner Mike Clark.
Read the articleWe have been watching and listening to statements made by ‘Appointed’ Washoe County Commissioner Clara Andriola and are a bit perplexed, does she support hobby livestock businesses, because what does ‘the potential exploration of change’ mean. To us, Andriola is again trying to make it appear she is
Read the articleA surprising camaraderie between Denton and White. Denton, supposedly paid through the Karma Box Project to manage the Safe Camp, allegedly rejects the 'no-barriers approach' for the Cares Campus. White urges the reporter to confront Denton, dropping White's name in the process. Delving into t
Read the articleWashoe County District Courthouses, 75 S. Sierra and 201 S. Virginia Street informing us the third-party vendor for cleaning services the county has retained just wasn’t cleaning the courthouses.
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