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Joe Hart’s Breaking Story … A Bathroom Break

Picon always enjoys watching how easily local media personalities allow themselves to be used — or perhaps more accurately, manipulated.

Take Joe Hart over at KRNV Channel 4. But then again, television news has advertising to sell. Ratings matter. Access matters. Relationships matter. That is the game.

What caught our attention was how closely anti-Mike Clark activist Ed Alexander seemed to mirror the very narrative Hart later reported. It seems Our Town Reno found this story equally interesting.

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Washoe GOP’s Mayoral Muddle Might Be Messy: Two Elephants, One Trough (and One Grudge Match)

The Washoe County Republican Party might want to invest in a spreadsheet — or at least a group chat — because the 2026 ballot is shaping up to be one giant, red-tinted identity crisis.

First, there’s the Reno mayor’s race. Two elephants, one chair: Councilmember Kathleen Taylor, who rode GOP backing to a razor-thin win in 2024, and perennial candidate Eddie Lorton, the party’s forever date who’s back for another dance.

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