Nevada
EDITORIAL: Goliath seeks to pound on David in rural Nevada
Sidewinders outnumber individuals in Esmeralda County, residence to about 950 residents and some of the sparsely populated jurisdictions within the decrease 48. Goldfield, the county seat, had its heyday within the early 1900s, at one time boasting 20,000 residents. Immediately, it’s common to journey U.S. Freeway 95 via the center of city with out recognizing one other human being.
Those that make their houses in lots of the small desert cities that dot the Nevada outback are resilient and hardy souls who’re more than pleased to do with out the conveniences that metropolis dwellers take as a right. But even because the web opens the world to distant locales, connecting individuals from across the globe, service stays spotty in lots of secluded communities.
Enter Radio Goldfield, 89.1 on the FM dial. Established in 2006 as a pirate station, it acquired a broadcast license from the FCC in 2011 and went legit. Immediately, station officers produce greater than a dozen exhibits that provide music and native information throughout Esmeralda and Nye counties. The station’s mission assertion explains that it “strives to maintain our neighborhood vibrant by offering high quality programming and offering neighborhood entry to the airwaves for the aim of sharing music, experiences, information and knowledge.”
In December, nonetheless, the U.S. Forest Service printed a proposed rule that will enhance by $1,400 the annual charge for “communication use authorization” on lands it manages. The company seeks to make use of the cash to scale back a backlog of such functions and insists the upper prices may have minimal influence. However “some small governmental jurisdictions and small companies that can incur larger impacts,” a information launch permits.
Radio Goldfield is one such entity.
The station survives on donations. Lately, the Forest Service issued a allow so Radio Goldfield may construct a transmitter on Shoshone Mountain with a purpose to broadcast to Spherical Mountain and Smokey Valley, north of Tonopah. The tools could be on Forest Service land, that means the upper charges would apply. That threatens the monetary viability of the plan.
“Let’s name this ‘charge’ what it’s,” Radio Goldfield president Chris Wagenseller wrote in feedback relating to the proposed new rule, “an ill-conceived prohibitively costly regressive tax on small remoted rural communities who depend on the communication networks working on these distant and restricted communication websites.”
The charge hike is particularly nonsensical given the Biden administration seeks to direct billions in infrastructure funding to broadband tasks meant to enhance web entry in rural America. Why do this on one hand whereas crippling the enlargement of present rural communication instruments on the opposite?
The Forest Service ought to faucet its present price range to ease allow backlogs and put this ill-conceived new tax out of its distress.
NEVADA, MO – When it comes to golf, there really isn’t much Emree Cameron can’t do. The next stop for the Nevada senior is the U.S. Girls Junior Golf Championship.
Picking up the sport at the age of six, Emree began competing at just seven years old. The division one Louisville commit said it’s her younger brother that drives her success.
“I was in the spotlight for awhile, and now he’s playing baseball and it’s his turn,” said Emree.
“I love it, and I want to show him that he can go be successful, and can play his sport long term.”
With Nevada now home, golf takes the Cameron’s from coast to coast.
No matter where Emree goes however, her father, is with her every step of the way. The longtime golfer and former caddie, said he couldn’t be more proud of his daughter.
“It’s hard to put into words how proud I am,” said Eric Cameron.
“When I think about it, it almost brings me to tears, and it just speaks for itself.”
In 2024, Emree is a division one golf commit, and her school’s first ever state champion for girl’s golf. Despite the accolades, Emree would emphasize that her father and family would always be the most important over the course of her career.
“My dad is my number one supporter, and so is everyone in my family,” Emree said.
“I don’t think I would be where I am, and have the mental state with golf right now if it wasn’t for my dad.”
In addition to competing in the U.S. Girls Golf Championship, Cameron will also play in the Junior PGA Championship in Bethesda, Maryland.
The Junior Golf Championships will take place at El Caballero Country Club in California on Monday, July 15th through Saturday, July 20th. The Junior PGA Championship will take place from July 30th through August 2nd.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (KOLO) -Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo last week announced 30 appointments to boards and commissions.
They include Ben Kieckhefer, Lombardo’s former chief of staff, to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, and Terry Reynolds, recently retired as the Nevada Department of Business and Industry director, to the Nevada Ethics Commission.
“Both Terry and Ben bring decades of wisdom and experience to their respective appointments, and I’m grateful for their honorable service to their fellow Nevadans,” Lombardo said in a statement.
Prior to serving as Lombardo chief of staff, Kieckhefer served on the Nevada Gaming Commission, appointed in October 2021 by Gov. Steve Sisolak, and served as a member of the Nevada State Senate for three consecutive terms representing the Washoe and Carson portions of the Tahoe Basin.
Before working for state government, Reynolds previously served as city manager for the cities of Prescott, Ariz., Elko and Sparks. Reynolds served in municipal government for over 20 years. Reynolds will fill the seat formerly held by Ethics Commissioner Thoran Towler.
The appointments:
Shane Kraus Advisory Committee on Problem Gambling
Scott Kichline Air Service Development Commission
Christopher Abraham Air Service Development Commission
Eric Smith Board for Regulation of Liquefied Petroleum Gas
Justin Johnson Board of Agriculture
Jennifer Stepp Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors
Salome Balecha Board of Optometry
Adriana Fralick Cannabis Compliance Board
Kent Lay Contractors’ Board
Shatawna Daniel Interagency Advisory Council on Homelessness to Housing
Gilbert Hernandez Northern Nevada Veterans Cemetery Advisory Committee
Kevin McKinney Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission
Robert Straube Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission
Valerie Clark Silver State Health Insurance Exchange
William Dolan Southern Nevada Veterans Cemetery Advisory Committee
Elizabeth Smith Southern Nevada Veterans Cemetery Advisory Committee
Megan Labadie State Land Use Planning Advisory Council
Ben Kieckhefer Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
Sandra Schneeberger Women Veterans Advisory Committee
Clayton Eugean Comstock Historic District Commission
Tammy Hendrix Comstock Historic District Commission
Mercedes de la Garza Comstock Historic District Commission
David Bates Comstock Historic District Commission
Nancy Cleaves Comstock Historic District Commission
Joseph Curtis Comstock Historic District Commission
Julie Workman Comstock Historic District Commission
Calvin Dillon Comstock Historic District Commission
Jessica Todtman Commission on Postsecondary Education
Terry Reynolds Commission on Ethics
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SPARKS, Nev. (KOLO) -A crash closed westbound Interstate 80 at Pyramid Way on Sunday morning. Traffic is getting past onusing the freeway shoulder.
A Nevada Department of Transportation traffic camera shows a tractor-trailer rig on its side on the freeway.
The Nevada Department of Public Safety reports the crash happened at 4:38 a.m. and that no one was seriously injured.
The Nevada State Police said there is no estimated time for all lanes to reopen.
Copyright 2024 KOLO. All rights reserved.
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