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Fire starter

Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

Our cover story last week, Jake Highton’s essay making a progressive argument in favor of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, has generated a lot of fiery discussions. We’ve received a lot of letters to the editor—which will run soon— and personal emails about it, as well as hearing a lot about it around town over the long weekend. This has been, and will no doubt continue to be, a strange, passionate and contentious election. We didn’t run Highton’s essay merely to stoke the fires of the proverbial angry letter writers or to present a straw man argument. It’s just a different perspective—and one we found fascinating, even if we don’t agree with it.

And of course there’s no more fitting way to celebrate our country than a good ol’ fashioned American political argument.

Speaking of politics, don’t forget to vote in the Best of Northern Nevada readers’ poll. Voting end at 7 a.m. on July 14, so this is your last chance to vote in the contest that really matters: which casino has the best carpet.

I want to take a quick minute to congratulate Laura Davis and Bryan Jones on their recent engagement. Laura was a freelance writer who contributed regularly to the RN&R circa 2010 to 2014. In the summer of 2013, I assigned her to write a story about Bryan, who had recently become a solo act after years performing with the excellent Reno band Buster Blue. They had never met before, and now, three years later, they’re getting hitched. That’s about the only time I’ve ever successfully—albeit unintentionally—played matchmaker. They live up in Seattle now, and they’re a great couple—the kind of people who warm all the hearts in a room—and I wish them all the best.

And finally ... does our paper look any different?

—BrAd ByNUM bradb@newsreview.com

Love those quotation marks

The news cycle obfuscation and diversions propagated by the Obamski White House are to facilitate his own evil “final solution.” The MSM—ever the gullible lemmings—routinely regurgitate the White House official line on transgender bathrooms, white cops killing black kids, educational equality, Brexit, military downsizing, etc. This is nothing but smoke and mirrors of Obozos real design— namely, to cancel the November elections, declare martial law, and become “Emperor for Life.”

A WH manufactured “crisis” of “Chicken Little the sky is falling” proportions will soon become apparent. Iran scraping the nuclear deal would be a likely candidate as the WH is not known for original thinking in the crisis department. The “crisis” will then manifest itself as completely at odds with the constitutional process of presidential selection “for the safety and security of the country.” Elections subsequently indefinitely “voided” by “presidential decree” and Obummer will declare himself in charge until “the crisis is averted.” Of course, the crisis will never be averted.

Nothing would please this writer more than to be didactically incorrect in this supposition. I merely put it out there in the hopes that rational and thinking Americans will have a chance to not be taken in by this future B. Hussein charade.

KIM & LILIBETh KoLLMAN Reno

Well of Wells

Re “Islamic expert” (letters, June 23):

K.R. Kollman wrote in his letter published on June 23, 2016, “without becoming an Orson Wells 1984 society!” While we can agree with his intent, he was no doubt referring to the book, 1984 that was written by Herbert George Wells, not Orson Welles, who was the radio and movie actor who gained notoriety for his War of the Worlds radio drama—which, just to confuse the matter more, happened to be based on the book by H.G. Wells—that caused panic in various cities across America when it was aired on CBS radio, October 30, 1938.

Be a sport and print a line to correct this error so that your dear readers learn the difference between these two notable gentlemen.

CLAIrESE ChENNAULT Reno

Editor’s note: We’re going to put in a word for George Orwell, who wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in 1949, and sometimes published in the U.S. as 1984. INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Greg Glover discusses his radio show, The Bottom 40, and interviewing musicians like Noel Gallagher. SEE 15 MINUTES, PAGE 31

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