Silver State of Mind

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Monday, November 9, 2026

  1. 9:04The One Percent

    What a Year of College Actually Costs Here, Versus Boise, Sacramento, and the Nation

    UNR's resident tuition just went up again. Thad runs the real math against TMCC, Boise State, Sacramento State, and the national average, and the answer isn't the one Reno assumes.

  2. 9:18Smart Start

    A Dead Lowe's Is Now Training Reno's Next Electricians

    A national trade school opens a 400-seat campus this month inside Sparks' reinvented Oddie District, training electricians, plumbers and HVAC techs to fill a skilled-trades gap local workforce leaders flagged themselves.

  3. 9:32Smart Start

    How Reno's Weather Office Actually Builds Your Forecast

    Twice a day, a hydrogen balloon the size of a small car leaves a building off Raggio Parkway and climbs into the sky over Reno. That's one piece of how a desert valley boxed in by 8,000 and 10,000 foot peaks gets a forecast built for it every morning.

  4. 9:46Nevada Table

    The Ice Capital of the West Was 40 Minutes From Reno

    Before anyone had a refrigerator, the Sierra's biggest export wasn't silver, it was ice, and for fifty years it kept the Comstock's mines, San Francisco's iceboxes, and a Boca brewery running cold.

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