We’ll pay for NV Energy’s follies
Santa—embodied by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC)—gave NV Energy (NVE) everything it wanted for Christmas.
On Dec. 20, the PUC approved NVE’s Integrated Resource Plan. Included on NVE’s wish list were two gas-fired combustion turbines at a price tag of $573 million. NVE’s old-school strategy is to rely on the combustion of fossil fuels to provide electricity during times of peak demand. Their questionable projections of peak demand are based on debatable assumptions.
Combustion of fossil fuels generates greenhouse gases. The continuing increase in greenhouse gases worsens our climate crisis, causing record-breaking temperatures, increasingly frequent climate-related disasters, poorer health and climate-related deaths. Gas-fired turbines do nothing to help Nevada meet our clean energy goal of net zero emissions by 2050.
Over half a million dollars! We, NVE’s customers, will be paying for this gift to NVE for decades to come. With a lifespan of 25 to 30 years, it’s likely that customers will pay for this folly long after NVE gets with the program and abandons polluting, gas-fired energy systems in favor of less-expensive, clean-energy alternatives.
Robbin Palmer, Reno
The liberal media treats Trump unfairly
Jimmy Boegle: So you want to talk about press freedoms under attack. (See “Press freedoms are under attack—and Trump’s second term hasn’t even started yet,” RN&R, January 2025.) Let’s start with some facts.
Based on a Syracuse University study in 2022 titled “The American Journalist Under Attack,” there are 10 times more American journalists who identify as Democrat versus Republican, 36% versus 3.4%, compared to the general population of 27% versus 26%, respectively. The trend has been fewer Republicans and more Democrats as time passes.
A study during the 2024 presidential election found among major networks an extreme bias, with Kamala Harris receiving positive coverage 78% of the time, and Donald Trump receiving negative coverage 83% of the time.
So, yes, our free press is under attack with the majority of “news” outlets being nothing more than a propaganda wing of the Democrat Party.
If you want to understand the difference between sexual assault and rape, and why that matters in defamation lawsuits, maybe you should visit a women’s shelter and speak with the victims, and they can explain the difference to you. Words matter, and the law matters.
Regarding the suit against Ann Selzer, you note the poll did not hurt him, so there should be no issue. Funny, in the 34 felony counts of bookkeeping errors, no one was hurt, and yet Trump was found guilty. Same applies to his alleged misstatement of asset values, and no one was hurt, yet Trump was fined upwards of $500 million. Funny how your justifications do not work both ways. Both will be overturned on appeal!
If you want press freedom, maybe your publication should not start with the first three pages being liberal echo chamber talking points.
Bruce Horn, Stateline
High housing costs keep people homeless
My lady friend and myself have been homeless since October 2017. (“Why are unhoused people declining services?” RN&R, January 2025.) What has kept us from finding housing is the cost of “affordable housing.” We are both in our 60s and have been on a fixed income even before losing our apartment of 15-plus years. We were evicted and had no place to go that was affordable. We had to give up two of our three cats, which we had for more than 10 years, leaving us with the youngest. With the deposit and rent for her alone, three-quarters of our income is gone. Then you have the power company and their deposits taking whatever funds we have left. As for the shelter and temporary housing, the people in charge of both are cold, rude and unsympathetic people just there to collect a paycheck.
Howard Crowley, via RenoNR.com
Mr. Horn is outraged that “liberal media” puts out more negative coverage of Trump than he likes (The liberal media treats Trump unfairly) but has nothing to say about right-wing media and their work to spin and propagandize for Trump. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but I would have liked to see some balance in Mr. Horn’s complaint. And Mr. Horn ignores the fact that Trump, on an hour-by-hour basis, does whatever he can to be the top headline in all of media even if it means doing or saying something he knows to be outlandish.
Mr. Horn says he is outraged that the media sometimes used the term “rape” when Trump was only found guilty of “sexual assault.” But I wonder where Mr. Horn’s outrage is regarding the assault itself. Labels, it seems, are more important than the crime.
As for his claims about our Justice System being weaponized against Trump, Mr. Horn ignores the role played by grand juries and juries of peers which our Forefathers cleverly built into our judicial system.
There are a lot of reasons to be outraged by the media and I share some of that outrage, but what I heard from Mr. Horn appalls (and frightens) me more because his one-sided outrage seems to have been shared by enough people such that we now have a convicted felon as President who has openly boasted about doing appalling things to women. And we’re currently seeing Executive orders and statements by Mr. Trump that display an absolute contempt for the rule of law and our Constitution while his party and followers not only aren’t outraged, they’re celebrating. I don’t understand the country I live in anymore.
Why Do you all hate Musk and Trump So…
By: former TMCC Tenure track instructor.. not rehired after 5 year contract was up.. (go figure LOL)
Well… Lets see… I had a great management class mid 80’s. Great instructor, liked to demonstrate not just have you read out of a book. He was big on class “exercises”. SO.. we had a “project”, broke into groups to plan and produce. Timelines, deadlines, crisis mode…Usual headaches (with a few thrown in by instructor)… After completion, there was about a 100 question survey. CAREFULLY written to obscure the main objective. Two items:
1. Who was the mover, the shaker, the person who got things done.?
2. Who did you like the least, and who would you like to have thrown off the project?
Nine times out of ten.. yeah, same person…. (One of the many lessons I have never forgot). I KNOW why you hate Musk & Trump.. Now you do too (and yes, even with proof in front of them, some students just could not believe it either)..