Silver State of Mind

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Tuesday, November 3, 2026

  1. 9:04Smart Start

    Four Governments, One Parks Department: What a New Regional District Could Cost You

    Your parks could be getting a new boss, and you could be getting a new line on your property bill to pay for it. A report that landed two weeks ago wants Reno, Sparks, Washoe County and Sun Valley to stop running their parks separately and hand them to one new regional agency.

  2. 9:18Smart Start

    The Library Is a Delivery Network

    When you put a hold on a library book in Washoe County, there's a whole invisible machine behind what happens next, vans and makerspaces included. A quick look under the hood of a system most of us only think of as a building.

  3. 9:32The One Percent

    The DMV Bill: Why Your Nevada Plates Beat California's

    You know the joke, the first thing a Californian does after moving to Reno is go get Nevada plates. Turns out there's a real DMV bill behind that joke, and the two states don't just charge different amounts, they charge you in completely different ways.

  4. 9:46Trailhead Report

    The Base Reno Outgrew: From Hump Pilots to Mercury Astronauts to the Lear Fan

    There's a huge airfield north of Reno where airplanes used to scream around pylons at 500 miles an hour every September. A decade before the air races got there, the seven original Mercury astronauts were out in that same sagebrush learning how not to die if their rocket came down in the wrong desert.

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