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The Appeal has a story this morning about Mom & Pop's owner Doug Cramer being pushed out of the Fridays@3rd Street event he started nine years ago.

I've been talking with Doug about this situation, and there are a few interesting things left out of this story.

If you're a Nevadan who has made plans with the state to get an appliance rebate, you have until June 15 to mail in your applications.
The Nevada State Office of Energy has extended the deadline, originally four weeks from the reservation date, to June 15 to ensure participants have enough time to complete the rebate process.
“The overwhelming response we received resulted in some retailers having to schedule deliveries out two to three weeks,” NSOE Project Manager Catherine Gowen. “We still want to encourage people to get their rebates in as soon as possible.”

We have some good news to share in these not-so-good economic times, especially when it comes to development and housing.
Construction will begin soon on a $3.6 million, 42-unit senior apartment complex in Carson City that will help to close the gap in a shortage of affordable retirement housing here.

A Carson City man who allegedly held a Nevada driver license in a deceased person’s name was arrested after he allegedly applied for an identification card under another dead person’s name.

Gregory Scott Rice, 54, recently applied for a Nevada ID card under the name of Ross James Martin, according to DMV Compliance Enforcement investigators.The department’s Facial Recognition System matched his photograph with a Nevada driver license issued under the name of John Clifford Butler. A preliminary investigation showed both identities belonged to deceased Minnesota men.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) this morning voted to overturn the U.S. Atomic Energy Safety and Licensing Board’s order to suspend the Yucca Mountain administrative hearings.
The NRC has ordered the licensing board to make a decision on the Department of Energy’s (DOE) motion to withdraw the license for Yucca Mountain with prejudice by June 1.

CARSON CITY – Two of the four Republican candidates seeking to replace Sen. Randolph Townsend in state Senate District 4 in Washoe County attacked one another’s records in a debate televised today on the Nevada NewsMakers program.
Assemblyman Ty Cobb said one of his opponents, Ben Kieckhefer, has called for “revenue enhancements” which Cobb said is support for a tax increase. Kieckhefer denied the charge.

According to the executive director of the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects, Bruce Breslow, this week saw some unexpected and interesting new developments in the ongoing litigation process related to the Yucca Mountain License application.
“The matter is becoming increasingly complicated,” said Breslow.
Nevada had been in the middle of the Yucca Mountain License Application hearing process when on March 3, 2010, the Department of Energy (DOE) made a motion to withdraw the license with prejudice.

You may have heard that there are some big financial incentives for slapping energy-generating solar panels on the roofs of your home and/or business. There are. But time to apply to get those incentives was running out. So NV Energy extended the deadline to apply. So, you now have until April 21st to get those applications in to NV Energy in Reno. Call them for an application or e-mail NV Energy at RenewableGenerations@NVEnergy.com.

Nevada is preparing to compete in round two of the federal Race to the Top grant program. Only two states that applied, Tennessee and Delaware, received funding from the first phase of the competition.

CARSON CITY – Five members of Congress representing the states of Washington and South Carolina have sent a letter to U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu protesting a decision to reallocate $115 million budgeted for work on Yucca Mountain and discontinue licensing of the site as a nuclear waste repository.

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CARSON CITY – Gov. Jim Gibbons on Wednesday will sign the “Race to the Top” bill allowing Nevada to compete for federal school improvement funds, a spokesman said today.

A source inside Governor Gibbon’s office today said Gibbons will not veto the Race to the Top education bill passed Wednesday evening by the state Senate and Assembly during the special session of

After President Obama announced his plan to eliminate funding for the Y

While I am pleased to see the application by Carson City’s Office of Business Development (CCBD) for HUD funds to build a business incubator have been withdrawn, I am still very concerned that it w

City Hall’s Office of Business Development is asking the Board of Supervisors to re-direct federal funds that largely go to the poor, the elderly, the handicapped, and for general public improvemen

The application for the Economic Incubator to be awarded federal Community Development Block Grant funds, that are intended to help low and middle income people, begs the question…do economic incub

With a supporting cast in the audience to root her on, long time Carson City “Wet Sweat” exercise guru-ette Jerry Vance learned that her exercise classes at the Community won’t be left out in the cold

Northern Nevada Development Authority is pleased to announce the founding members of the Regional Real Estate & Affiliates Advisory Committee.

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Acknowledging that sales tax collections have fallen so low that the City is no longer in a position to float bonds to pay for a new indoor recreation center next to the Boys and Girls Club, City P

LAKE TAHOE - You may have no idea what an Apple iPhone application is, but iPhone and other smartphone users do, which is why organizations are starting to create applications specifically for the Lake Tahoe area.