Silver State of Mind

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Wednesday, November 4, 2026

  1. 9:04Smart Start

    Two Different Agencies Run "The Pound," and Only One of Them Can Adopt You a Dog

    What looks like one county animal shelter in Washoe is actually two separate organizations sharing one building, with two completely different jobs. Almost nobody knows the split, and it decides where your lost pet, or your next adopted one, actually ends up.

  2. 9:18Trailhead Report

    Every Boat at Tahoe Gets Hosed Down With Scalding Water Before It Touches the Lake

    Lake Tahoe is one of the only big lakes in the West with no established invasive mussel population, and it's not luck. It's a 15-year-old mandatory inspection system that treats every trailered boat like a biohazard risk, and this season it's being tested harder than ever.

  3. 9:32Stronger Every Morning

    A 30-Year-Old Reno Nonprofit Was About to Lose Its Home. It Just Signed a Bigger Lease Instead.

    Family Respite Care of Nevada was told to vacate its longtime home so a college could expand. Thirty years in, with nowhere to go, it just signed a five-year lease on a bigger space instead.

  4. 9:46Smart Start

    Renown Just Broke Ground on a $140 Million Clinic Because Spanish Springs Outgrew Its Doctors

    Renown Health broke ground on a $140 million ambulatory care campus in Sparks, on land it's held for over a decade, saying the fast-growing Spanish Springs corridor has outgrown its healthcare.

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