Pastor Bob Winder of the Grace Foursquare Church in Ely joined Wyatt for our weekly spiritual commentary to remind us that Love is the Answer. 

In the headlines:

• Elko businessman Bert Gurr to seek reelection to the Nevada Assembly
• Elko Police Officer on leave facing off-duty battery charges
• A routine Wednesday for White Pine County Sheriffs Deputies
• Secretary of State launches website to boost trust in elections
• Job Text Scams are out there-be aware
• Football Friday as Football hosts Needles and Soccer teams host Whittell
• Volleyball team in Wells tomorrow
• Golf Teams go to state on Monday

In the headlines:

• County Commission refuses to clarify new Agenda/supporting material policy;insists on meeting day before Thanksgiving
• Governor renews push for tougher DUI policies
• One dead following shooting in Wendover
• Idaho woman dead in weekend crash north of Elko
• Save Comins Lake Pike-Out cancelled
• AG Ford spend 1/3 of 2024 outside the state

In the headlines:

• Republicans outnumber Democrats statewide for the first time in two decades
• County Commission meets today
• New Ambulance lands in McGill thanks to a grant
• Sheriff's report for Monday and Tuesday
• Ladycats Volleyball beat Round Mountain
• Wild Burro Roundup near Beatty
• Two deputies graduate POST Academy

Just when it seemed the green energy rush might be slowing down, here comes another proposal — a massive solar project right here in White Pine County. White Pine Solar LLC has filed for a Conditional Special Use Permit to build a 350-megawatt solar farm near the old Club 50 site. If you’ve seen the sprawling solar fields north of Jackpot along U.S. 93, you know how industrial and out of place they look. Do we really want that here? Our community already fought off a similar project near the airport, and we’re still battling the Utah developers pushing the enormous — and enormously misguided — White Pine Pumped Storage Project. And now we face yet another threat to our open landscape and rural character. If you care about how our county looks and feels, show up Thursday, October 16, at 5:30 p.m. at the Library Conference Room for the Regional Planning Commission meeting and make your voice heard. White Pine County deserves better than another eyesore in the name of “green energy.”

In the headlines:

• Governor announces intent to call Special Session
• Union Groups push for Vegas Film Project in Special Session; claim 17,000 new jobs
• Commission meets Wednesday, Agenda/Backup material policy top of mind.
• Attorney General chief of investigations fired after anti-gay slur at traffic stop. 
• Weekend Sheriff's office blotter update
• Girl's Golf Team heads for state after first place finish at regionals
• Girls Volleyball hosts Round Mountain tonight

In the headlines:

• Commission to consider agenda restrictions
• Blotter Reports for 10-2 and 10-3
• Amodei criticised Senate Democrats for shutdown
• Nevada 9th most expensive state to own a car
• White Pine High sports roundup

Your County Commission is at it again. Coming up at Wednesday’s meeting, they’ll discuss clarifying their own directives that prohibit amendments to agendas and prevent the distribution of backup material during meetings. In effect from what they’ve distributed in this agenda, it looks like they may be trying to exempt themselves from open meeting laws and oversight by the Attorney General or the State of Nevada. Now, I’m not an attorney—nor do I play one on the radio—but it seems to me that this county commission will keep playing fast and loose with the rules, if not the law, and doing whatever the hell they want to do, whenever they want. This is what you voted for, folks, and you’ll have to live with it until the next election. This is not an open County Commission.

Stephen Bishop and Erik Jensen of the Ely Lions Club tell us about the evolution of Punkin' Chunkin' into the Ely Renaissance Fair and what to expect on October 18th from 10am to 2pm at Bristlecone Park.

In the Headlines:

• Governor Lombardo says his administration will support Nevadans during the Federal Shutdown.
• Sheriff's Office Report
• Miner killed in Goldruch Underground mine in Eureka County
• Vegas unemployment rate still among highest in the county
• Tarkanian set to run for Attorney General
• Shutters strip motel back on the market