Dear News Carson City readers,
After five years of bringing you the best local news on this website, the News Carson City website has now merged with CarsonNow.org.

Carson Now is a community news site that brings together original reporting and writing with links to other local news sources. It also allows readers to post their own stories, calendar events, photos, videos, etc.

Go to Carson Now for the latest news >>>

“The idea is to make Carson Now a one-stop site for all of your local news,” said site creator Kirk Caraway. “Bringing together Carson Now, with what Dave Morgan has built with News Carson City, is a huge step forward in serving the media needs for Carson residents.”

Morgan will continue to write stories for Carson Now from his new home in Newport, Oregon, where he is working to duplicate the success he has had here, building a local news website.

Beginning Monday, March 1, all new stories will be posted to Carson Now. The News Carson City website will be kept online to preserve the past stories.

Please visit Carson Now for the latest news. For more information, contact us here.

Below, Caraway and Morgan talk about the merger of the two websites:

Sheriff Ken Furlong told CarsonNow.org that a 7 month old baby girl was found lying dead on the bed in a back bedroom this morning. Furlong says the body was discovered by her grandfather. She had lived with her mother and grandfather at his E. Long condo, near State Street.

An autopsy is expected to reveal the cause of death. The investigation is open and continuing.

On The Reflection In The Mirror
By Karl Neathammer

Unless you had your olfactory nerve cauterized, the smell that permeates Nevada and Carson City is the malodorous stench of politics wafting through the air.

This is perhaps the time to reflect on how we have bastardized our own form of government.

Federal, state, and local elected officials, along with potential candidates are huddling with their political consultants to decide which issues will strike a chord with the electorate. If no important issues exist then they will create them. Read the rest of this entry »

Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas, told reporters Saturday night that legislative leaders, Governor Gibbons and administrative officials have come to a tentative agreement on how to plug a nearly one billion dollar hole in the state budget. And part of that plug does not take any more money away from state workers than they’ve already been hit with. Read the rest of this entry »

Carson River Community Bank, located on Highway 395 next to Home Depot and Target, was declared a failed institution Friday by Nevada state banking regulators and the Federal Depositors Insurance Corporation (FDIC). As a result, the FDIC immediately approved the sale of Carson River Community Bank to Heritage Bank of Nevada which has branches throughout the Carson City and Reno area. Read the rest of this entry »

Trying to plug a nearly one billion dollar hole in the state budget has been a bit of a roller coaster ride. Governor Gibbons has agreed with state lawmakers that some fee increases are necessary and that some cuts, especially for K-12 education, should be eased. While big mining interests have agreed to step up their contribution to the state budget shortfall, big gaming has been dragging its feet, saying their revenues are down substantially and they should not be tapped for more money. Critics say that gaming has had a tax holiday for the past fifty years and now it’s payback time. But Gibbons indicated that he’s not convinced big gaming needs to contribute more.

Gibbons and lawmakers have also been talking about further cuts to state worker pay. State workers have already been hit with furlough days amounting to a 4.6% pay cut. Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley says it’s really more like 11% when you figure in loss of merit and longevity pay and other lost benefits. Legislative democrats say state workers should not be penalized any more. Gibbons wants a couple more hours a month taken away from them.

Budget talks resume Saturday morning. The Special Session is expected to run through Sunday because the bills bubbling up from the negotiations will take time for be formally written and then passed by both the Assembly and Senate. If they’re vetoed by Governor Gibbons, the legislature would then need a little more time to attempt what would expected to be a successful override of those vetoes.

Douglas County authorities have arrested Benjamin Schuler, 24 of Gardnerville, on charges that he lured a child under the age of 14 with the intent to persuade the child to leave its home. Authorities say Schuler communicated with two 13 year old girls via e-mail, with conversations of a sexual nature. At one point, they say, he tried to lure one of them to come over to his house.

Schuler met the girls through his employment as a basketball coach for the Douglas County School District. Authorities claim that Schuler had actually touched one of the girls in an inappropriate manner.

Schuler is in the Douglas County Jail on charges of luring a child under the age of 14. His bail was set at $25,000 cash only.

A Carson City man who threatened suicide and who also issued a threat to anyone who entered his apartment, thereby triggering a big police response including the Carson City SWAT team, has been identified.

He was Frank Bindley, 55, a former police officer with the Las Vegas Metro Police Department. Read the rest of this entry »

State lawmakers are hardly endearing themselves to Governor Gibbons in that they have taken informal votes on his major cuts to K-12 and University/College budgets. And those votes were to limit those cuts to half of what Gibbons wanted. They also rejected his demand that they review and enact his sweeping changes to public education. Read the rest of this entry »