Silver State of Mind

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Tuesday, November 10, 2026

  1. 9:04Smart Start

    Hot Rocks, Big Profits: Reno's Ormat Technologies Beats the Street

    Reno-headquartered Ormat Technologies just posted a blowout Q3, but not from the geothermal wells you'd expect. Grid batteries carried the quarter, a Fallon-area well field is becoming the company's next big bet, and Nevada just ran a land auction for the heat under its own dirt.

  2. 9:18Smart Start

    The Secret Life of Reno's Sewage: Inside TMWRF

    Every flush in Reno and Sparks ends up at one plant that two cities co-own, built in 1967, that cleans the water enough to put it back in the Truckee River, and fixed its own smell problem in 2020. A genuinely surprising "how does this actually work" segment.

  3. 9:32The One Percent

    The $3.66 Number That Lies to You

    Nevada's property tax rate cap looks nearly four times higher than California's on paper. Thad walks through why that headline number is almost meaningless on its own, compares Washoe County's rate against Clark County's, and shows why Nevada homeowners still end up paying less than Californians despite the scarier-looking rate.

  4. 9:46Nevada Table

    The Opera House That Burned Down Twice and Is Still Open Tonight

    Virginia City's Piper's Opera House has burned to the ground twice, rebuilt itself twice, hosted Mark Twain and Lillie Langtry and John Philip Sousa, got condemned, got saved by one family for three generations, landed on the National Register in 1997, and still books live shows today, on the same third-generation stage built in 1885.

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