Letters

Finally here

Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

Well, it’s finally here. After a  campaign season that’s often felt like a long, slow peeling off of a Band-Aid from a tender, hairy wound, Election Day is here. It’s time to vote. On page 16 in this week’s issue, you’ll find our endorsements. Hopefully, that’ll help clear up any issues—either you can use it as a guide for how to vote or, if you hate us, a guide for how not to vote. Or just one more perspective to take into account when making your own damn decisions.

One word of caution for however you decide to use our endorsements: careful with those Questions. Those initiatives are often written with intentionally deceptive language to trick voters. I think we did a nice job explaining our positions on the Washoe County initiative and each of the four Nevada questions, but even if you don’t buy into our exceptionally well reasoned explanations, I’d still advise you to take some time to read as much as you can about each of those Questions.

And don’t believe everything you read. Some of the propagandists out there are well-funded deceivers—particularly the opponents to Question 2. For more about how those people intentionally distort facts, fail to disclose conflicts of interest, and outright lie, check out Upfront on page 8.

Anyway. See you in the future. It’ll be a different world when next we meet. And no matter what happens, we’ll all have a  little bit of extra time and energy once we’re finished with election anxiety. No longer any need to obsessively check Nate Silver’s website once an hour. I plan to get caught up on all the music I  haven’t been listening to, read some pulpy science fiction, and take up tennis.

—Brad Bynum bradb@newsreview.com

School money

In 1997, Roseville’s population was 63,000. It was struggling. New development was not paying its way. Then it discovered California law allowed it to create new development tax districts.

Here, we have Perry DiLoreto and his ilk, developers who give lots of cash to politicians so that doesn’t happen. They think everybody else should pay the costs for arterial roads, schools, infrastructure, etc., so they can build subdivisions of new houses for families of four totaling 10,000 persons or more, half of who need schools. Says DiLoreto, it’s a problem of our creating. We all don’t pay enough in taxes so he and friends can become richer.

Today, Roseville’s population is over 130,000. The Galleria and Fountains malls bring shoppers from areas all around, filling Roseville’s coffers with tax dollars. (The Fountains mall highlights the greed of and everything the developers of the Summit mall did wrong!) Roseville is now one of the most financially sound cities in California, a shining example of new growth paying for itself and everyone winning—something DiLoreto doesn’t want for us. Marcus Krebs Reno

Who is responsible for maintenance of universities and schools? Article 11 Section 6, “support of …. university and common schools …. the legislature shall provide for their support and maintenance by direct legislative appropriation from the general fund.”

Guinn Center, Feb. 2016: “Currently, state aid is not available for constructing new buildings or repairing existing ones.” Where can the legislature get additional funds to do their constitutional duty? Not gaming or mining but residential developers. 48,000 new homes were built in 2006, producing over $15 billion for developers (UNLV Business School). Developers pay no taxes. Gaming revenues totaled $12,193,784. (Gaming Commission). Gaming pays 6.75 percent tax of gross. Mining saw about $5 billion. Mining taxes are set by the constitution at 5 percent of net. EDAWN and local officials envision the Reno area increasing to 600,000 by 2019. Local officials’ goal is growth to the size of Austin, Texas, 930,000. Vote NO on WC-1 and incumbent candidates to force the legislature to do its constitutionally mandated duty.

Terry Tiernay Reno

Plant righteousness

Re: “Pot Tale of the Week” (Upfront. Oct. 27, 2016)

While there is much anxiety and rankling over potential taxes regarding the re-legalization of cannabis (marijuana), realize taxes and profit are not the righteous reasons to end cannabis prohibition. Stop caging responsible adults who use cannabis because it’s the right thing to do. A sane or moral argument to continue cannabis prohibition doesn’t exist.

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Correction

Re “Delicate dance” (news, Oct. 27):

We reported that when Bernie Sanders delegate Carol Cizauskas arrived back in Reno from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, “she learned the local chapter of Progressive Democrats of America had circulated a flyer saying she had registered Green, which was untrue.”

Cizauskas informs us, “[A]fter I returned home from the convention, the Reno chapter of Progressive Democrats of America did not circulate a flyer about my registering Green—rather, one group leader told at least one other leader that I had registered Green, which at the time was not true. That incorrect information caused the leadership of PDA Reno to question my allegiance.”

We also heard from Gale Audia of PDA: “That issue came up in a phone conversation with Carol and myself in which she stated to me that she was not a member of the Green Party, which I accepted. There was no flyer. Also, PDA Reno has never been an ‘arm’ of the Washoe Democratic Party! We value our separateness and operate at all times independent of this party!”

We apologize for the errors.

ERIK HOllAND

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