This week’s meetings and a glimpse down the road (commentary)
June 15, 2021
Lisa Lee helps to serve lunch to people who were forced to move from a camp near Wells Ave. on June 3, 2020 in Reno, Nev. Image: Isaac Hoops / This Is Reno Share
Here are some of the highlights. For the full missive, click here.
By Alicia Barber
Summer may not have officially begun, but it sure feels like it. Temps are running high, schools have let out, and the Reno City Council has embarked upon its annual summer break, with its next meeting to take place on July 21.
There are a few other meetings coming up this week that I’ll highlight first in this brief Brief, and then I’ll mention a few items we can expect to see on the Council’s docket once they reconvene next month, to be further elaborated upon in the future.
Redevelopment in the Powning District: History or bunks? | Jerry Snyder
Jerry Snyder
This opinion column was submitted by Jerry Snyder, a Reno-based artist and attorney.
The Powning Conservation District, as defined in the Nov. 7, 2012 Reno Historic Plan occupies the area between Arlington and Keystone to the East and West, and between Riverside and Second Street to the North and South. It is named for Christopher Columbus Powning, a 19th-century developer with a taste for impressive muttonchops and a marketing plan that was apparently based on boasting of the area’s “perfect sewerage.” Originally, the development provided modest craftsman bungalows for blue-collar families. The area currently includes a smattering of apartment buildings, including the four-story Truckee Terrace Apartments (formerly the Truckee River Lodge,) the aspirationally named Lear Theater, the McKinley Arts Center, some office buildings and a number of the original craftsman-style homes in states of
Heroes to inspire Northern Nevada in 2021 | Sheila Leslie Reno-Gazette-Journal 12/24/2020
This opinion column was submitted by RGJ columnist Sheila Leslie, who served in the Nevada Legislature from 1998 to 2012.
Much of 2020 has been grim and depressing, but these waning days bring glimmers of hope in the form of vaccines and a new national leader who will appoint government officials more interested in serving us than themselves. We can certainly celebrate having made it through these last four years even though our democracy is limping along, with far too many still blindly following a delusional and selfish man.
But let’s leave the travails of 2020 behind for now and recognize a few people who quietly serve our community without a fancy title or expectation of recognition. Unlike many of our elected officials who spend inordinate amounts of time praising each other for minor deeds, these Nevada heroes selflessly work to improve our community without the need of public ap