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Campaigns Make Strange Bedfellows

We get it. They love to call Picon hack journalism. Politicians and their entourage of pearl-clutching staffers practically salivate at the chance to wag a finger and shout, “biased!” or “irrelevant” - along with a number of PAC’s, political clubs, and organizations. And yet… they can’t stop reading.

Maybe it’s because we ask the questions they’d rather not answer — like this one:

Is Governor Joe Lombardo using the wife of his chief of staff, Danielle Cherry, to quietly fundraise for his 2026 re-election campaign?

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Sunscreen and Smoke Screens: Mayor Schieve's Transparency Issues

In the bright Reno sunshine, Mayor Hillary Schieve seems to have forgotten an essential civic protection: transparency.

As the City of Reno partners with the Nevada Cancer Coalition along with the Reno Aces baseball team to sponsor cancer screenings at Greater Nevada Field, a curious connection has emerged from the shadows. Mayor Schieve, the city's highest elected official, has been quietly developing her own skincare line called "Spooge"—a sunscreen product ostensibly designed to help prevent skin cancer.

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