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The Washoe Leadership Academy: Ego Management 101
We almost let out a sigh of relief when Washoe County Manager Eric Brown packed up and rode off into retirement. Not because we're ungrateful (well, maybe a little), but because we thought one particular pet project might quietly fade into the bureaucratic sunset: the Washoe Leadership Academy.
You remember it — the program dusted off and rebranded under Brown’s watch, pumped full of self-congratulatory rhetoric and framed as the next great investment in “leadership.” A noble idea on its surface, sure. But let’s not kid ourselves — this thing wasn’t designed to nurture leaders so much as to cultivate admirers, and it would seem you need to be a graduate of the academy in order to be appointed to a county board of commission. Brain-washing anyone?
The Alexis Hill and Eric Brown Show: Where Results Are Optional
So Washoe County keeps telling us Commission Chair Alexis Hill and County Manager Eric Brown have homelessness under control. Hill just told the Nevada Legislature’s Senate Committee on Government Affairs yesterday, February 3, 2025, that Washoe County has reduced homelessness by 40%.
Really? Let's do a reality check:
✦ The Nevada Cares Campus is bursting at the seams
✦ Tent cities are popping up faster than new coffee shops
✦ It took community activist Lily Baran to step up and open warming centers because... where was the county?