Silver State of Mind

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Monday, October 12, 2026

Money Making Monday
  1. 9:04The One Percent

    What's Actually Growing Here, and Who It's Actually Paying

    Jobs are genuinely growing faster here than the national average, and a brand-new jobs center just opened in a reborn Sparks building to prove it. But look closer at what kind of jobs, and the picture gets more complicated.

  2. 9:17The One Percent

    Somebody wants to put 54 square miles of solar panels east of Pyramid Lake

    A Colorado company has applied to build two 1,000 megawatt solar projects with battery storage on roughly 34,800 acres southeast of Pyramid Lake. Together they would be among the largest in Nevada.

  3. 9:30The Smart Start

    Your garbage leaves the county, and California's comes here

    Everything you throw away goes to a landfill ten miles east of Reno, in a different county. And a large share of what gets buried there was not generated in Nevada at all.

  4. 9:43The Smart Start

    Nobody plows Reno. Three different agencies do, and that decides your street

    Whether your street gets plowed first, last, or at all comes down to which government owns it. Here is how the priority lists actually work, before the first storm.

  5. BenchThe Nevada Table

    The building you skate on top of every winter

    The Mapes was the tallest building in Nevada and the first skyscraper in the West after World War II. It came down on Super Bowl Sunday in 2000, and it was the first building on the National Register demolished anywhere in America in fifty years.

  6. BenchThe One Percent

    Same gas company, and we pay half again what Las Vegas pays

    Southwest Gas serves both ends of Nevada. Its own figures put the average Northern Nevada winter bill at $89.16 a month against $57.73 in Southern Nevada.

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