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Out of town Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. Last weekend, Margot and I loaded the kids in the fam van and struck out south. We were headed to the wedding of my good friend Dave Pomeranz, an ex-Reno guy who’s now an emergency doc down in Bishop, California. He and his lovely bride, Moriel, had a beautiful ceremony at a gorgeous spot overlooking Rock Creek Lake, in the Sierra. And yes, the wedding was so nice I feel fully justified in using the adjectives “lovely,” “beautiful” and “gorgeous” in the same sentence. We made a weekend of it. Mama Margot and the older kids rode mules along mountain trails. (I stayed behind with the baby.) We visited Bishop’s Mountain Rambler brewery and had a few beers with the proprietor, my good friend Joe Lane, another ex-Reno guy who has done well in Bishop. If you’re ever in Bishop and want a beer, head there. But the wedding was the highlight. Dancing under the stars, dogs and children swarming around, good friends, great food, even better booze, the effects of which were intensified by the high elevation (over 9,000 feet). At the wedding dinner, we sat next to an older couple, Darla and Bob, who mentioned that they had lived in Reno for a few years during the late 1980s. “What was the best thing about living in Reno back then?” Margot asked. (She grew up in Pennsylvania, and, although I lived in Reno for much of the ’80s, my primary concern was, “What time does Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles start?”) “Well, back then, and I think it’s probably still true, the best thing about living in Reno was how easy it was to get out of town,” Bob said. “Most urban places, it’s surrounded by more urban places. From Reno, it’s really easy to get out of town and discover some beautiful natural places.” Yep, that’s still true.
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This year the Reno Rodeo will be observing it’s 100-year anniversary. A country is proud to celebrate a centennial. A business would celebrate 100 years of staying in business. A person has reason to celebrate 100 years of healthy life. But 100 years of animal abuse? Not so much. But rootin’ tootin’ rodeos are fun, right? There is nothing “fun” about rodeos for an animal. A terrified animal confined to a chute or a holding pen is subjected to an electric prod, a sharp stick and a pinching “bucking” strap. Kicked, hit and beaten. When released into an arena, it is frantic. The roping of calves causes their necks to be snapped back by a lasso and can result in terrible injuries. Then they are sent to the slaughterhouse. Entertainment? The Reno Rodeo is an archaic competition that is best relegated to the annals of a shameful history. Let its 100-year run be just that. Alexandra Brenke Reno
Las Vegas fan Re “North versus South” (Bars & Clubs Guide 2019, March 7): You missed an important difference between Reno and Vegas. Vegas is an unapologetically gaudy and philistine, sleazy shithole filled with shallow cackles of deluded bachelor and bachelorette parties dressed up like they fell out of a ’90s Middle East discount boutique that wraps all their clothes in plastic, not to mention the glut of overpriced corporate beer and spirits engineered with corn syrup and GMO adjuncts and generously dusted with glyphosates. Vegas can seriously go f#ck themselves in the a## like they do to all the gluttonous tourists. Ed Park Reno
Democracy fan I’ve had three opportunities to ask semi-large groups of people, “Who’s read the Mueller
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report?” and in each case it was a resounding zero. There were different demographic groups represented in each case so a total zero response indicates a very scary situation. Topics covered in the report—an overt attack on our electoral system, unreported interactions between one of the campaigns and the Kremlin, and a potential cover-up of crimes and corruption at the highest level— should be a high priority for any American, but a propaganda campaign based on preserving ignorance seems to be working. The forefathers had a vision of a nation where the people ran the show. But it required an educated electorate that actively participated. If we the people would rather watch the crap on TV than take time to read a document that has the potential to expose a fraud that in my mind is the equivalent of a coup, what does that say about our future? All folks need do is read the summaries in the report to know which side has been blatantly lying to you. Then ask, “why” with an expectation of answers. Michel Rottmann Virginia City Highlands
California fan Re “Give the legislature a grade” (Streetalk, June 6): [For the benefit of online readers who don’t see our print-only features, in answer to the street question, Neil Crowley said in part, “I left California and don’t want to see Nevada become California East.”] Did anyone get as big a laugh from Neil Crowley’s comment as I did? When I was born in Ely in ’48, there were about 110,000 people in the state at that time, according to the 1950 census. Do you think, Neil, that the state’s 3.3 million current residents all came from a massive procreational orgy from those original 110,000 residents? Ask around and see how many native relics like me you can find in these parts. I think the joke is on you. Maybe you should have thought about the remaking of Nevada before you moved here. Michael Mirich Reno Distribution Director Greg Erwin Distribution Manager Bob Christensen Distribution Drivers Alex Barskyy, Corey Sigafoos, Gary White, Joe Wilson, Marty Troye, Timothy Fisher, Vicki Jewell, Olga Barska, Rosie Martinez, Adam Martinez, Duane Johnson President/CEO Jeff VonKaenel Director of Nuts & Bolts Deborah Redmond Director of People & Culture David Stogner Director of Dollars & Sense Debbie Mantoan Nuts & Bolts Ninja Norma Huerta Payroll/AP Wizard Miranda Hansen Sweetdeals Coordinator Trish Marche Developer John Bisignano
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Conduit fan Taking this conduit, allow me to get two things off my chest. 1) S. Virginia Street should have been repaved after crews tore it up. S. Virginia may be one of the bumpiest streets in any larger city in Nevada. A visitor might think he or she is not in a tourist destination, but the poor side of town. “Midtown?” The street is more like shanty town. 2) The ad for the Reno Rodeo. What is with the use of the word “damm?” Totally over the top. Everyone respects the toughness and roughness of rodeo participants. Language should be polite. Ask any cowboy. Samuel Margolies Reno
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